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)
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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.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case |
| Event: | The 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-4503-9098-9/21/12 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3485983.3494838 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3485983.3494838 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Content Moderation, Federation policies, Collateral damage |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10139706 |
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