These are very good questions. What would designing a social media platform to minimize its utility for the promoters of genocidal hate speech look like?
Did you watch Erin Kissane’s recent talk about networks? I think she is thinking deeply about this kind of thing. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
Writer/researcher Erin Kissane is working to build better and safer networks for collective survival, with efforts including the COVID Tracking Project, a powerful 40,000 word analysis of Meta’s role ...
this would probably require a benevolent version of newspeak
It is worth re-inforcing this: authoritarians can't compete. Thats why they are authoritarians. Elon _has_ to amplify the very worst voices. Trump _has_ to cheat at election time. They can not compete on their own merit because they will consistently fail if they do. So,
You might not appreciate it, but fundamentally, opaque / nuclear interpersonal blocks are a foundation of how to counter & prevent the promotion of genocidal hate speech.
Not a full solution, but I think a community notes feature is quite a valuable first step.
If social networks are incapable of stopping genocidal hate speech I would really strongly consider if they are worth the trouble.
I guess the first question is, what characteristics of social media sites make them so useful for disseminating hate speech in the first place?