Better Online Living through Content Moderation

The article starts off by talking about how some people might be ignore functions or warns, due to PTSD or other anxieties. Some people may not be affected by PTSD or have anxieties, but they know their limits and want to not see things that would add stress to them. There are many reasons somebody could not want to see something, and there is no bad reason for wanting something. Though the problem lies in how other people look at the people who need these things. The people who need this censorship are seen as weaker.

One of the major arguments against this censorship is that if you’re exposed to something then you’ll slowly grow resilient to it. This idea draws a parallel with Exposure Therapy. Exposure Therapy is being exposed slowly to the source of your anxieties, though without the exposure being controlled a person with PTSD is more likely to have an attack than anything else. Though in more recent years, younger generation seem to be more in tune with warnings about things that might be harmful to others.

Blacklist are a thing that have been emerging more. A blacklist allow a person to block things that they do not want to see. Though there are some who think of blacklists as bad, since they seem to silence others. The debate on if blacklists are bad or good is on going, but what people don’t seem to realize is how damaging harassment is. If somebody is stalking you, harassing you, and doing things to you that you don’t agree with, you should be able to get rid of them from your life by blacklisting them so that it will soften what they can do to you.

Telling a hate mod to attack someone, stalking, or even threatening them or their friends and family, these are all tactics use to silence somebody or doing even worse to them. This type of thing is common place on the internet today, though blacklisting and adding censor to there browser can help people who are dealing with threats. The ability to mute somebody or block them is not silencing them, it is just making it so that you don’t have to hear their words. People should be able to decide for themselves what their own boundaries are and how far and much they are willing to see and put up with.

Ultimately, content control is the best way to deal with things. Content controls gives a person to act on their own personal needs without other people harming them. Not everyone is able to just ignore the bad people and move on, since some of these people tend to keep on and sometimes have information that could be potentially damaging to one’s own reputation. Nobody has to take on the responsibility to whether the harassment. You should be able to go online or use things without having to deal with harassment, nobody should be force to deal with something that causes them great damage to their mental state.