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The idea that even spam is does not fall into "content moderation" is very interesting.

A fake Rolex email is an interesting advertisement to some people and belongs in the garbage for others.

Research has shown that buyers of spam advertised products will literally dig through their spam folder to find a store to buy from.

As this (naturally, pun intended) expands to green coffee, açai, news articles about Florida man, and on up to what we see as disinformation, the difficulty in identifying intent becomes equally as challenging.

There's no way to "just host content", and anyone attempting to do this will face a range of laws, user challenges, and more that introduce "content moderation" into the platform.




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