What's the Importance of Moderation?

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In the early days of wickapedia, there re sort of an i r s channel, and people are back channel stuff. And that kind of early feel of the internet of just meeting people and hanging out. I got to meet some of the early wicipedians, and, you know, they're just such fascinating people. An tend to be the kind of people you would see at a library or,. you know, a college professor or something.

You’ve heard us talk before on this podcast about the pitfalls of trying to moderate a “global public square.” Our guest today, Eli Pariser, co-director of Civic Signals, co-founder of Avaaz, and author of "The Filter Bubble," has been thinking for years about how to create more functional online spaces and is bringing people together to solve that problem. He believes the answer lies in creating spaces and groups intentionally, with the same kinds of skilled support and infrastructure that we would enlist in the physical world. It’s not enough to expect the big revenue-oriented tech companies to transform their tools into something less harmful; Eli is encouraging us to proactively gather in our own spaces, optimized for togetherness and cooperation.