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LI users today: "F you Mod".
If you are- and you think you have any reasons at all to be accountable to people who keep this website alive-
your definition of what is hateful, or abusive. Are you actually upholding the law on free speech or are you enforcing your own law? If enough people report a post does it go away? what is your magic number?
How do you work to ensure your biases are not influencing what you think of as being false, hateful, bigoted etc? What do you do to make sure that youre applying standards consistently across equally placed actors? Why for example can one VC of an NLU be derided here constantly and comments about another one always unpublished? Why insist on sources and facts for the latter but not the former. I do defamation suits- the first guy can take you to court any time he wants for the kind of stuff youve allowed to be posted here. Its a good thing he doesnt want to look petty by threatening legal action.
I dont particularly care about any of it- I'm not on the right, I dont like the VC of the NLU thats often derided here, I dont like hateful or abusive stuff. But if youre gonna try and justify your decision making- you should do it in a good faith manner.
1. Keep the concerned post/comments up and running.
2. Let readers give context in the comments section as to whether it is true or not. Meaning, let the platform's users moderate the platform themselves.
3. Twitter is doing it and it works!
4. If it is really hateful or incites violence/self harm, etc., then unpublish it.
Toh sab sahi hai