Should online platforms moderate speech beyond what the law forbids?
In 2022 Hank said Twitter cannot function without moderation, while worrying that people we don't know or trust decide what platforms allow and promote. In 2024 he compared platforms to towns that can and should improve their bad neighborhoods.
Axis: platforms must moderate beyond the law to function ... platforms should allow all speech the law allows
Positions by date: 3 records in 3 videos. The position was refined (2022), never reversed, in these records.
Hank
| date | how | position | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-13 | first on record | Critics weren't reacting against free speech: where to draw the line is the hard part, and Twitter without subjective moderation cannot function, as Musk took three weeks to learn. | What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Twitter 00:02:12 |
| 2022-11-11 | refine | Hank names the worry: internet platforms hugely influence society, and people there whom we don't know and can't trust decide what is allowed, promoted and demoted, which is real and worrying. → refers to What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Twitter | Elon Was Right 00:00:58 |
| 2024-09-20 | restate | Like a town, a platform has bad and good neighborhoods and can and should improve the bad ones; if towns become less livable, people leave. | Do I Regret TikTok? 00:06:49 |