Video Games Cannot Escape the Content Moderation Reckoning
The Lawfare Podcast
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Are You Now the New Public Forum of Deep Democracy?
Rit: One of my favorite go to examples in content moderation is of roboxs community standards, which we mentioned at the top. They have rules against dating and romantic content that would be absurd on a platform that presents itself as the new public forum. But on the other hand, we were talking earlier about how political speech does occur in games, and that will probably only grow as more people get into gaming. And so maybe we should be concerned if forms who don't see themselves as wanting the headache of having to deal with political content moderation issues or, you know, romantic content moderation issues. Would that be a massive loss? I think so.
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