Yeah, the part about most having 16+ flags isn’t really surprising (or in my opinion concerning). The rest of it, though, is pretty damning, especially the executive response to it all. While I agree with the laws (in my country, at least) that online platforms generally can’t be held responsible for what their users post, those executives should absolutely be held accountable for choosing money.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 2 days ago
As soon as you want to earn money with it, you are most definitely responsible for it in my eyes. At least when people tell you annoy problematic content on your platform.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 days ago
The problem with that is that that sort of policy makes the internet just cease to function. User-generated content makes up a massive portion of what’s on the internet, and it can’t possibly all be policed before being posted, unless you want to make a post on Bluesky or whatever and have to wait weeks for it to be approved after manual review. The law requires companies to promptly respond to takedown requests but as long as they do, they aren’t responsible for the content posted by their users.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Okay, now apply that argument to the next levels upstream, the ISP, backbone providers, CDN providers, the domain name holders, the SSL certificate trust companies. They all earn money with it.
You see how ridiculous that argument becomes.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 2 days ago
No, because they provide different services.
To explain with an analogy:
The streets and car producers are not responsible if I drive to the British museum to look at stolen art, but the museum itself is most definitely responsible, even though they themselves didn’t steal it but it was gifted to them.