Abstract
As online platforms become central to our democracies, the problem of toxic content threatens the free flow of information and the enjoyment of fundamental rights. But effective policy response to toxic content must grasp the idiosyncrasies and interconnectedness of content moderation across a fragmented online landscape. This report urges regulators and legislators to consider a range of platforms and moderation approaches in the regulation. In particular, it calls for a holistic, process-oriented regulatory approach that accounts for actors beyond the handful of dominant platforms that currently shape public debate.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.alw-1.14
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Venue:
- ALW
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 113
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.alw-1.14
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.alw-1.14
- Cite (ACL):
- Claire Pershan. 2020. Moderating Our (Dis)Content: Renewing the Regulatory Approach. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms, page 113, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Moderating Our (Dis)Content: Renewing the Regulatory Approach (Pershan, ALW 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/2020.alw-1.14.pdf