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Ecologia Digital"Protecting <a href="https://mato.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> from threats created by Internet <a href="https://mato.social/tags/platforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#platforms</a> is a laudable goal. But it is not worth the cost imposed by legislative attempts so far: empowering the government to control legal speech online. Lawmakers’ attempts to impose their own top-down speech rules are particularly unwarranted given the far more promising possibilities offered by <a href="https://mato.social/tags/usercontrolled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usercontrolled</a> and <a href="https://mato.social/tags/decentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#decentralized</a> <a href="https://mato.social/tags/contentmoderation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contentmoderation</a> systems."<a href="https://techpolicy.press/regulated-democracy-and-regulated-speech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://techpolicy.press/regulated-democracy-and-regulated-speech</a>

Matti SchneiderI'm speaking today (in French) about <a href="https://mastodon.social/@opentermsarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@opentermsarchive</a> at <a href="https://eupolicy.social/@SuVergnolle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@SuVergnolle</a>’s inaugural “Lunch & Learn” monthly seminar on <a href="https://maly.io/tags/ContentModeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContentModeration</a>. Join at 12:30 CET directly on <a href="https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/92869618946?pwd=1BiQHTjkH6PpYANDZos5KGD6Q3w5DB.1&ref=regulation-tech.cnam.fr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/92869618946?pwd=1BiQHTjkH6PpYANDZos5KGD6Q3w5DB.1&ref=regulation-tech.cnam.fr</a> and register on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/events/lunch-learnopentermsarchive-cha7310707496845803521/comments/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/events/lunch-learnopentermsarchive-cha7310707496845803521/comments/</a> to receive a link to the replay!

AuscandocOnline <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/ContentModeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContentModeration</a>: What works, and what people want | MIT Sloan <a href="https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/online-content-moderation-what-works-and-what-people-want" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/online-content-moderation-what-works-and-what-people-want</a> ““Contrary to recent claims from many political elites, the main problem with professional <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/factchecking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#factchecking</a> is not bias or overreach,” he added. “The problem is that professional fact checkers can’t keep up with the vast scale of content posted every day” <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#misinformation</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Once again, several Senators appear poised to gut one of the most important laws protecting internet users - Section 230 (47 U.S.C. § 230). Don’t be fooled - many of Section 230’s detractors claim that this critical law only protects big tech. The reality is that Section 230 provides limited protection for all platforms, though the biggest beneficiaries are small platforms and users. Why else would some of the biggest platforms be willing to endorse a bill that guts the law? In fact, repealing Section 230 would only cement the status of Big Tech monopolies.As EFF has said for years, Section 230 is essential to protecting individuals’ ability to speak, organize, and create online. Congress knew exactly what Section 230 would do – that it would lay the groundwork for speech of all kinds across the internet, on websites both small and large. And that’s exactly what has happened. Section 230 isn’t in conflict with American values. It upholds them in the digital world. People are able to find and create their own communities, and moderate them as they see fit. People and companies are responsible for their own speech, but (with narrow exceptions) not the speech of others."<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/230-protects-users-not-big-tech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/230-protects-users-not-big-tech</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Section230" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Section230</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CommunicationsDecencyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommunicationsDecencyAct</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ContentModeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContentModeration</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a>

eicker.news tech news»<a href="https://eicker.news/tags/DemocraticSenators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DemocraticSenators</a> Team Up With <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> To Hand <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> A <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/CensorshipMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CensorshipMachine</a>: <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/Section230" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Section230</a> — the law that both enables <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/contentmoderation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contentmoderation</a> and protects websites from being sued for <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/userspeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#userspeech</a>.« <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/democratic-senators-team-up-with-maga-to-hand-trump-a-censorship-machine/?eicker.news" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/democratic-senators-team-up-with-maga-to-hand-trump-a-censorship-machine/?eicker.news</a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#media</a>

Ramin HonaryLooks like Mastodon is going to need better moderator tools Underprivileged people are apparently especially easy to target on <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> , or so I have been told, and I believe it. They have been complaining about it to the Mastodon developers over the years, but the Mastodon developers at best don’t give a shit, at worst are hostile to the idea, and have been mostly ignoring these criticisms. Well, now we have “Nicole,” the infamous “Fediverse Chick”, a spambot that seems to be registering hundreds of accounts across several <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> instances, and then once registered, sends everyone a direct message introducing itself.You can’t block it by domain or by name since the name keeps changing and spans multiple instances. It is the responsibility of each domain to prevent registrations of bots like this.But what happens when the bot designer ups the ante? What happens when they try this approach but with a different name each time? Who is to say that isn’t already happening and we don’t notice it? This seems to be an attempt to show everyone a huge weakness in the content moderation toolkit, and we are way overdue to address these weaknesses.<a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fediverse</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/contentmoderation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContentModeration</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/fediversechick" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChick</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/spam" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spam</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/spambot" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpamBot</a>

Politico.eu (Unofficial RSS)Belgian public transport companies quit Elon Musk’s X <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-twitter-belgian-public-transport-companies-quit-x/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-twitter-belgian-public-transport-companies-quit-x/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/digitalservicesact" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalServicesAct</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/contentmoderation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Contentmoderation</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/electionsecurity" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Electionsecurity</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/communications" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Communications</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/socialmedia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/department" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Department</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/technology" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/companies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Companies</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/platforms" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Platforms</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/transport" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transport</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/railways" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Railways</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/services" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Services</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/mobility" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mobility</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/politics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/ngos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NGOs</a>

Bytes EuropeEU social media law isn’t censorship, tech chief tells US critic – POLITICO <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/817510/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.byteseu.com/817510/</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#China</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Companies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Companies</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ContentModeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContentModeration</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#digital</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DigitalServicesAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalServicesAct</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DigitalTechRegulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalTechRegulation</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Exclusive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Exclusive</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HennaVirkkunen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HennaVirkkunen</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iran</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Jordan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jordan</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MarkZuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkZuckerberg</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Platforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Platforms</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TeresaRibera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TeresaRibera</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trade</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a>

Muellers Kabinettheutiger Vergleich von <a href="https://mstdn.strafpla.net/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> und <a href="https://mstdn.strafpla.net/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> zu diesem Tröt, der mit identischen Hashtags zum <a href="https://mstdn.strafpla.net/tags/Weltfrauentag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Weltfrauentag</a> auch bei Insta auf den Weg ging. Mastodon: 13 likes und 7 geteilt innerhalb einer Stunde - bei Insta: in sechs Stunden drei Likes von direkten Freunden. So eine <a href="https://mstdn.strafpla.net/tags/ContentModeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContentModeration</a>, die <a href="https://mstdn.strafpla.net/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> oder <a href="https://mstdn.strafpla.net/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feminism</a> unterdrückt funktioniert da sehr vorzüglich. Der Kotau von <a href="https://mstdn.strafpla.net/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zuckerberg</a> ist auch hier erfahrbar

Flipboard Tech DeskProfessor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, Tamar Mitts for <a href="https://flipboard.com/@time" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@time</a> breaks down why the fight against online extremism always fails and why we need to understand that the issue "is bigger than any one site can handle."<a href="https://flip.it/qS0RGQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://flip.it/qS0RGQ</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/OnlineExtremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnlineExtremism</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ContentModeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContentModeration</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Mark Zuckerberg might be done with factchecking, but he cannot escape the truth. The third richest man in the world announced that Meta will replace its independent factchecking with community notes. I went to the AI Action Summit in Paris this week to tell tech execs and policymakers why this is wrong.Instead of scaling back programmes that make social media and artificial intelligence more trustworthy, companies need to invest in and respect the people who filter social media and who label the data that AI relies on. I know because I used to be one of them.A mum of two young children, I was recruited from my native South Africa with the promise to join the growing tech sector in Kenya for a Facebook subcontractor, Sama, as a content moderator. For two years, I spent up to 10 hours a day staring at child abuse, human mutilation, racist attacks and the darkest parts of the internet so you did not have to.It was not just the type of content I had to watch that gave me insomnia, anxiety and migraines, it was the quantity too. In Sama we had something called AHT, or action handling time. This was the amount of time we were given to analyse and rate a piece of content. We were being timed, and the company measured our success in seconds. We were constantly under pressure to get it right.You could not stop if you saw something traumatic. You could not stop for your mental health. You could not stop to go the bathroom. You just could not stop. We were told the client, in our case Facebook, required us to keep going."<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/12/moderator-facebook-real-cost-outsourcing-digital-labour" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/12/moderator-facebook-real-cost-outsourcing-digital-labour</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ContentModeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContentModeration</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FactChecking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FactChecking</a>

Orla H. :ablobcatcoffee:New server, new <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#introduction</a>? I'm Orla, your garden-variety middle-aged enby queerdo. I live on the west coast of Ireland with two <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cats</a> and too many <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/MechanicalKeyboards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MechanicalKeyboards</a>. I'm interested in <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Videogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Videogames</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ContentModeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContentModeration</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/InclusiveLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InclusiveLanguage</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Drag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Drag</a> (especially <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Dragula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dragula</a>) <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Horror</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciFi</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Coffee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coffee</a> and <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Art</a> I also ❤️ <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/TankGirl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TankGirl</a> and here's a blog post explaining why: <a href="https://orlawritesthings.com/2014/04/02/tank-girl-me/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://orlawritesthings.com/2014/04/02/tank-girl-me/</a> Cat tax attached.

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