-- JeremyLee - 16 Sep 2020

So, the gist of the Douek article I shared is that we as a society need to abandon any fiction that online content moderation will ever actually be able to perfectly adhere to and uphold principles of free speech. Instead, we need accept the notion that private social media companies are going to be driven to balance speech interests with other societal interests, and so the proper questions we must ask are (1) how high of an error rate are we willing to accept in the moderation of online content, and (2) what types of errors are we willing to accept? I'm inclined to agree to the extent that so long as online content is predominantly concentrated on a few websites, free speech is simply off the table; these companies have too much of a profit motive to just let content run wild like it did in the old days.

-- JohnJMartin93 - 16 Sep 2020

Student 1: I would like to learn more about the relationship between free speech and content moderation on internet platforms

Student 2: Evelyn Douek recently wrote a good article on this: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3679607