The concept of a curated Internet by AI on a national and individual level which can lead to your site or yourself being shadowbanned and expelled from online discourse, commerce and society is chilling.

No doubt it will be sold to the public as a way to automate moderation to protect moderators from having to come across traumatic women and child abuse content and to allow the quick and swift removal of said content. And virtually everyone will welcome it with open arms. What they will not be told is that its implementation will be universal, beyond mere abuse content, and will be used against them.

I was heavily shadowbanned (under a different pseudonym) on Twitter and Reddit before I closed my accounts and somewhat shadowbanned on YouTube. It is here and another private discussion forum where I am not shadowbanned and I can tell the difference in engagement as if it is night and day.

The concept of moderation is antithetical to an Internet. You cannot have the first rough outline of a collective human consciousness and make it a garden path. We're not that calm or predictable.

When this is implemented, the Internet will cease to be, and we will have another thing called "the Internet" in its place.