eprintid: 10139706
rev_number: 12
eprint_status: archive
userid: 608
dir: disk0/10/13/97/06
datestamp: 2021-12-13 15:28:44
lastmod: 2021-12-13 15:28:44
status_changed: 2021-12-13 15:28:44
type: proceedings_section
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Hassan, AI
creators_name: Raman, A
creators_name: Castro, I
creators_name: Zia, HB
creators_name: Cristofaro, ED
creators_name: Sastry, N
creators_name: Tyson, G
title: Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
divisions: F48
keywords: Content Moderation, Federation policies, Collateral damage
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
abstract: Decentralising the Web is a desirable but challenging goal. One particular challenge is achieving decentralised content moderation in the face of various adversaries (e.g. trolls). To overcome this challenge, many Decentralised Web (DW) implementations rely on federation policies. Administrators use these policies to create rules that ban or modify content that matches specific rules. This, however, can have unintended consequences for many users. In this paper, we present the first study of federation policies on the DW, their in-the-wild usage, and their impact on users. We identify how these policies may negatively impact "innocent" users and outline possible solutions to avoid this problem in the future.
date: 2021-12
publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1145/3485983.3494838
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1897707
doi: 10.1145/3485983.3494838
isbn_13: 978-1-4503-9098-9/21/12
lyricists_name: De Cristofaro, Emiliano
lyricists_id: EDECR21
actors_name: De Cristofaro, Emiliano
actors_id: EDECR21
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNext 2021)
pagerange: 328-335
event_title: The 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
book_title: CoNEXT '21: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
citation:        Hassan, AI;    Raman, A;    Castro, I;    Zia, HB;    Cristofaro, ED;    Sastry, N;    Tyson, G;      (2021)    Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case.                     In:  CoNEXT '21: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies.  (pp. pp. 328-335).  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10139706/1/2110.13500v2.pdf