The Verge article you linked is literally clamoring for the online platforms, where this speech is happening, to accept responsibility for what user's say to one another. That's literally the foundation for SESTA / FOSTA .
Again, there are so many problems with that math. 1) It's less that one percent. 2) you think a comment moderator would make 45k?!?!?!??!?!? I wanna live in whatever world you do. 3) Yes it will still take millions and millions of dollars. That's the exact price of curation.
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And in the end, it's the exact investment in the well-being of your business. There's a reason facebook is growing in this exact department. And it's because they finally realized the horrific cost of not doing it.
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It's very easy to make an online business where community size vastly outstrips revenue (especially if you don't want to sell user data). Should such developers be legislated out of business, because they can't afford to pay an army of moderators? Example: craigslist personals
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