While moderation of harmful medical misinformation is necessary, there is a risk of over-censorship when centralizing the definition of truth.
“as soon as you allow a central source to you know determine what is true and what is not at the end of the day you might and I I could see this argument being made you might end up throwing out the baby with the bath water”
Linus Tech Tips · Apr 2020 · 1 episode · 677K views on this topicCentralized content moderation is necessary because the accessibility of publishing tools allows non-experts to spread potentially dangerous medical misinformation.
“knowledge is distributed so anybody can make it and consume it and when you're making you know if you're making a video you can sound like an expert because there's no one there to contest you at the time so it's pretty dangerous so some moderation has to happen”
Linus Tech Tips · Apr 2020 · 1 episode · 677K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.