Alex Stamos on Content Moderation and Security

Really interesting talk by former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos about the problems inherent in content moderation by social media platforms. Well worth watching.

Tags: Facebook, privacy, social media

Posted on May 29, 2019 at 6:03 AM • 34 Comments

blogger • June 3, 2019 11:56 AM

The debate about moderation will soon be irrelevant, because all “moderation” (read: censorship) is going to do is drive people to technologies or services like Dissenter or a darknet where “moderation” is impossible.

“Moderation” is not what the left is interested in anyway. They are interested in censorship. They want to suppress speech that they deem “dangerous”. This is proven by the fact that they don’t want certain content to exist, even if it’s on a forum they don’t use (like Gab.) They are terrified that an idea that they disagree with might be communicated between two people.

There’s an old saw about the definition of a conservative as “a person who is deathly afraid that someone, somewhere might be having fun.” In the same spirit, it is nowadays fair and accurate to define a Progressive as a person who is deathly afraid that someone, somewhere might be engaging in “hate speech.”