Q&A: Evelyn Douek, a lecturer and Ph.D. student at Harvard studying online speech regulation, on why a “proportional” approach to online speech is a good thing
Major platforms' policies aren't actually inspired by the First Amendment. This legal scholar says that's a good thing. Tweets: @gadgetlab , @mantzarlis , @wired , @jilliancyork , @risj_oxford , @wexler , and @bkcharvard Tweets: @gadgetlab : Major platforms' policies aren't actually inspired by the First Amendment. This legal scholar says that's a good thing. https://www.wired.com/... Alexios / @mantzarlis : “in a sense, the proportionality approach might be more speech protective because it will require platforms to look to those less restrictive, more proportionate responses to the harms” https://www.wired.com/... @wired : “To say that content moderation can't fix the breakdown of the Republican Party, or the pandemic, or social isolation, is not to say that it can't have real, meaningful, and important impacts.” https://www.wired.com/... Jillian C. York / @jilliancyork : I very much agree with @evelyndouek on this point and have said the same thing for about a decade now! https://www.wired.com/... https://twitter.com/... @risj_oxford : “The idea that content moderation will be able to impose order on the messiness of human expression is a pipe dream. The only way would be to just ban anything that looks remotely like that and then we'd have onions taken down because they look like boobs” https://www.wired.com/... Nu Wexler / @wexler : “The idea that content moderation will be able to impose order on the entire messiness of human expression is a pipe dream, and there is something quite frustrating, unrealistic, and unproductive about the constant stories that we read ...” —@evelyndouek https://www.wired.com/... @bkcharvard : 💬"The idea that content moderation will be able to impose order on the entire messiness of human expression is a pipe dream." - @evelyndouek discusses approaches to content moderation with @GiladEdelman @WIRED https://www.wired.com/...