My assumption is everything everywhere on the internet is already assumed to be fair game for spying, scraping, training, whatever.

At this point the interests seem more about serving than gathering information - hence the political games to control specific platforms now.

Can we get this in Washington State please.

Solid points. I’m with you. I admit I am skeptical of all platforms. I operate from the assumption that we only hear about moderation when these platforms want to control content for other reasons. Moderation for hate speech could be as simple as moderation for porn, but it is not because it isn’t about hate speech, it is about what the platforms can and can’t control. Which was the point I was trying to make. Sorry if that got lost.

These are platforms. It isn’t censorship because they are private for-profit entities. They can host or deny any speech they want. And we can post on them or not and take our content elsewhere.

Conan? Days Gone? Waterskis?

If we are talking platforms, then the employees of that platform. If we are talking federation, then the community and groups leading the communities. The consequences are the same as always. Bans for rule violations, and the freedom we all share to use or not use these platforms.

Content moderators per community guidelines. Why is this so hard?

Why is this not as simple as adding a setting button for moderation of hateful content? The user can decide to filter it out.

Pop_OS is very user friendly for newcomers. I hadn’t used Linux in over a decade and Pop was my reintroduction. Helped me get back in the swing of it.