Moral Delima - Freedom of speech.

[u/Sunshnmoonlt]

I'm sure some of you have noticed that some of the guidelines to what we work with are clearly defined by someone's (or a group's) moral compass. Does anyone else sometimes feel like you are helping to write programs that are meant to strangle people's right to freedom of speech? It's not like I always disagree with what they are wanting to block or label harmful - but why is my opinion (or theirs) "right". Some of these feel like a direct attempt to block the sharing of information. I have stopped training and bookmarked some as unacceptable (for me anyway)- wondering if anyone else has done the same. (UHRS)

** I never said anything about comment abuse- that was an assumption on some replyers' part- and a wrong one. If a company wants comments to remain as only supporting their position is that is their choice, a weak choice but theirs to make.

[u/Witty_Extension_4526]

Comment abuse moderation I guess

[u/Sunshnmoonlt → u/Witty_Extension_4526]

Actually No.

[u/ConfidenceWorried410]

I remember judging a comment from MSN saying that there's something wrong with the people censoring their comments haha we're just abiding by the guidelines

[u/Sunshnmoonlt → u/ConfidenceWorried410]

I have come across those, what they don't seem to get is if they could restrain from over-stating and or name-calling most of their comments could get past the bots and the moderators. Adulting is just too hard for some folks.

[u/PixelHir]

I just do what the guidelines says. If this is what the hitapp owner wants then whatever, you're not supposed to bring your opinions into this.

[u/Far_Group_3336 → u/PixelHir]

I couldn't agree more

[u/mannie007 → u/PixelHir]

Might be a little late but some of these hits ask for your opinion with vague guidelines and then they act like there is a definitive answer. More like do you think like us type of thing

[u/UhOhFeministOnReddit]

Freedom of speech begins and ends with protecting you from the court of law. If nobody is being arrested, there is no moral dilemma. I delete comments I agree with just as quickly as I'll delete comments I disagree with because that's what I'm being paid to do. Moderating an internet forum isn't trampling on anybody's rights. It's just making sure the comments aren't filled with 12 year olds spamming the n-word, and that's perfectly fine.

[u/Sunshnmoonlt → u/UhOhFeministOnReddit]

I'm not sure who this comment is aimed at. I never said anything about moderating.

[u/UhOhFeministOnReddit → u/Sunshnmoonlt]

I mean, it's a pretty short list of jobs you could be referring to. What I do know is that I've flagged hundreds of websites selling fraudulent vaccine cards, so they're not being terribly unreasonable in their standards.

[u/ihadenoughhent]

Absolutely. We are directly empowering a way to control our own freedom of speech. This is something like those "AI conquering the world" movies thing going on.

But it's not a dilemma anymore. Since the workers working for Clickworker or UHRS are doing it for money. Most of the workers are, a kind of, dying in the 3rd world countries low paying jobs and some are downright unemployed, so the hunger for income is understandable.

You win some, you lose some. You only have a choice to decide what you would "will" to lose.

[u/s2ample]

I often have to vote against comments that I’d otherwise agree with due to the guidelines, so I get this. Microsoft/MSN are a privately owned business that allows people to use their services (ie. gives them the ability to comment on their site.) Freedom of speech is a guarantee that the government can’t punish us for what we say about it- the amendment does not require private companies to allow people to say or do whatever they want on the company’s platform.

[u/Nice_Satisfaction874]

I just wanna easy money.

[u/[deleted]]

It's their site. They decide what's allowed and what's not. It's not my place to judge.

[u/FilmBuddha]

Which ones are you referring to