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It’s going to be fun watching Chris Best speedrun the content moderation curve, especially because he desperately wants “subscription network” to be different from “social network” or even just plain “website with a comments section” or “forum” or “group chat” when it comes to moderation, and he’s going to find very quickly that it’s just not and that he’s going to have to make calls. Some of these calls, (actually a lot of them), are going to be difficult, all the moreso because they’ll have to be made quickly, and he’s going to get some of them wrong and he’ll have to correct. But that correction will never be enough for the people who insist on bloviating on how content moderation should work while refusing to take any time to dig into any of the actual problems, and at any given time 50% of your customers will be pissed off at you. I hope he has fun.

From the “But I Thought Blocking Links From Major Media Organizations Was Bad” Dept.

Spoiler alert: The people who have spent the last three years screeching at the top of their lungs about Twitter and Hunter Biden have been deafeningly silent over the last two days on this.

Jee I wonder why? Could it be that the problem isn’t really that blocking major news networks is bad, but that blocking *the news networks conservatives and Republicans prefer* is bad?

Because there’s a hell of a difference between those two things, and honestly I suspect it’s the latter that’s the actual problem not the former, but everyone either cashing in on or eagerly lapping up the “Conservatives are being censored!” narrative know they can’t afford to say that out loud and so they keep up the game.