The future of free speech (Part II): Trustless Verification
Information theory and the social pillar of content moderation
Back in 2018, the chief supervisor of Europe’s GDPR, Giovanni Buttarelli, mentioned the following — from “Tim Cook’s Magnum Opus”:
[T]here is an urgent need for regulators and indeed societies to agree on and establish “a sustainable ethics for a digitised society… The paradox is that we have not yet learned how to navigate the new possibilities and vulnerabilities opened up by rapid digitization.”
We certainly have fallen behind-the-times. That’s why, in the first part of this series, I discussed both the legal shortcomings and workable remedies for moderating the “rapid digitization” of today’s content commons:
Herein, I will tackle the social side-of-the-balance…
Truthiness and leptokurtosis
When it comes to the stuff produced by news media or even user-generated content (UGC), the quality of such information is rarely an objective…
