There are many important issues people wish to talk about, but i'm afraid LI just seems to kill the conversation with its excessively delayed moderation of each post or reply. Do something about it LI. Also many comments are deleted or not published. I can understand posts being blocked for using abusive language etc. but seriously LI, stop killing freedom of speech.

Look, I hear you, and there is definitely merit to your argument. But just to play devil's advocate: LI also has a legitimate interest in moderating content (even excessively) to protect itself from potential liability, especially given the anonymous message-board nature of the platform. After all, if a particularly sensitive law firm or partner takes issue with a post, who are they likely to go after first when the author is anonymous? The platform itself.

In a way, over-moderation could even protect reckless posters from themselves. A far-fetched hypothetical, perhaps, but imagine LI is sued and then faces a court order seeking identifying information about a poster. Even assuming LI is technically capable of producing that information (which I doubt it is), why would it want to run that risk when aggressive moderation can nip the issue in the bud?

I'm not saying LI's approach is justified. But there is an argument that a platform where some discussion survives (even if heavily censored) may be preferable to having no platform for anonymous commentary at all.

Have the mods ever heard of the intermediary safe harbour protection? They would make everyone's life easier by just not actively "publishing" content on this platform, but rather letting everything float and censor/moderate (I doubt that brain of theirs understands what this term means) only content that is flagged to violate the platform's guidelines/is illegitimate. They are such softies now that even implicit jokes or trivial trolling gets censored, let alone any sensual whistleblowing post.

I seriously doubt LI has a defensible claim to safe harbour immunity. As per my understanding, at a platform level, LI just doesn't function like an intermediary in the traditional sense, nor was it designed to. LI exercises editorial judgment at every stage of publication. It vets which threads go live, decides which comments appear, and redacts or censors posts entirely.

Compare that with a platform like Reddit, where moderation is largely reactive. It happens after publication, in response to community feedback, policy violations, or court/ government directives. LI moderates at both stages, before and after a post goes up. So if it already reviewed the content before publishing it, how can it then turn around and claim the protections of an intermediary?

For LI to credibly assert intermediary immunity, the whole platform would have to be fundamentally reimagined. Until then, it's really just a heavily moderated, heavily censored space for anonymous commentary, one that arguably carries content liability for every thread and post published on it.

Happy to be corrected if my understanding is flawed.

my man, that is precisely the point being made. The call is for a shift in operability to a platform like Reddit, where censorship is reactive, not proactive. At present, LI doesn't enjoy the protection for this exact reason, and it has found itself in a mess on quite a few occasions (Re : NKU defamation saga). However, were to function like any Reddit or any other social media platform, literally, it could shrug the responsibility off its shoulders. At present, there doesn't appear to be any good reason other than the mods narcissism to control the platform's content, their parallel of fudging the algo. Delayed publications, over-censorship, worthwhile content being lost amidst it- give me one good reason to retain the current scheme of censorship.

Man BUMP max! It has been two days of me waiting to get my query posted here. The mods have really gone to hibernation or what? I tried posting an alternative on Reddit previously but the comment was not posted by these mods. I am really not sure now if they are going to post this even or not, but such a shame.