Even if Spotify could demonstrate it isn’t a publisher here, platforms don’t get a free pass on content. Also, podcast platforms run counter to podcasting, so Spotify’s trying to be successful there is just as troublesome as the costs it’s willing to pay to do so.

I have not (and do not care to) read a lot about the Spotify thing, but podcasts are meant to be a platformless, open medium—one of the few left on the web. If you’re going to make one exclusive, you absolutely take responsibility for content moderation.

This inconsistency is mind boggling.

Interesting read on a subject I expect to be following for a while.

Podcasts are one of the last bastions of the open internet, but that evidently comes at a cost. So long as Apple and Spotify are trying to corner the podcast market, they should be moderating their content.

There are clear cases where platforms need to be moderating more content, but let’s not forget the seemingly-well-intentioned but overreaching cases either.

Content moderation is an awful job, and we shouldn’t forget the people doing it for us.

Such a good conversation on such an important topic.

Interesting read.

Facebook might need more moderators, but they shouldn’t be company executives…

Interesting article. I’m particularly interested in the idea of focusing on algorithms rather than content.

What a read. Platforms don’t just host content, they manipulate that content.

Bookmarking this for my content management class.

Interesting proposal for a difficult issue.