This is a big challenge, and I applaud them for taking it. There is no information about how they intend to do this, which is fair since they're just getting started.<p>How would <i>you</i> attempt this? Moderation is hard and labour-intensive. I moderated a community for a while, and I hated it. It was a lot of unrewarding work, and the reward was mostly indifference, with bouts of stalking and harassment.<p>I can't imagine it being any easier when inviting the average Joe to discuss politics.
> free from harassment or bullying<p>Hope springs eternal, but color me skeptical that any speech that is inconvenient to those with authority doesn't instantly get labelled as cyberbullying and shut down.<p>The only way to guarantee freedom of speech is to acknowledge that some people are going to get their knickers in a twist when they see some of the comments, and there's nothing that can be done about that.
> The new "Public Spaces Incubator" (PSI) initiative will develop and test innovative solutions that encourage accessible and meaningful online conversations on issues of public interest, free from harassment or bullying — inclusive exchanges that will reflect diverse viewpoints and promote greater empathy and understanding, without suppressing perspectives or ideas.<p>When ideas like racism and sexism are experienced as harassment, how is it possible to be both free of harassment and of the suppression of ideas?<p>I don't think it's possible. You have to tell people that they aren't really being harassed, or that their ideas aren't really being suppressed. And the interpretation of which is which cannot be objective.
This is a joke. I don't know about the other broadcasters, but Canada's CBC is the propaganda organ of the liberal party and only allows an ultra-narrow ideological viewpoint. This will be the opposite of inclusive, it will just be a woke echo chamber.
Can we stop with the term "public-owned"? These aren't publicly traded companies (that anyone from the public can buy a stake into) but state-owned and operated broadcasters.<p>Now, as to their objectives, I have no faith that these state media can or will be able to create spaces where the first amendment is preserved considering their poor track-record in the matter. [0]<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29783996" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29783996</a>
What a waste of public money. It tells a lot that they dont try just creating a mastodon instance but that would too cheap.
Public media in Germany also has a very strong left bias. (see <a href="https://www.medienpolitik.net/2021/02/das-herz-des-journalismus-schlaegt-links-so-what/" rel="nofollow">https://www.medienpolitik.net/2021/02/das-herz-des-journalis...</a> )<p>(für die Deutschen auf HN: Hier ein Podcast <a href="https://www.welt.de/kultur/medien/article228196819/Podcast-Wie-links-ist-der-deutsche-Journalismus.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.welt.de/kultur/medien/article228196819/Podcast-W...</a>
wo der Autor seine Thesen noch einmal genauer erläutert. )
Maybe the problem is public engagement. 25 years ago I would get a newspaper in the morning to read on the train. If something made me really mad, I could write a letter to the editor. It probably wouldn't be selected for publication. I could read the handful of other letters to the editor that were published that day, and if anything those people had to say made me mad, well, this is my stop, time to go to work aaaaand I've forgotten all about that thing that made me mad.<p>Maybe we don't need this. At all.
> The new "Public Spaces Incubator" (PSI) initiative will develop and test innovative solutions that encourage accessible and meaningful online conversations on issues of public interest, free from harassment or bullying — inclusive exchanges that will reflect diverse viewpoints and promote greater empathy and understanding, without suppressing perspectives or ideas.<p>> "Online spaces that are free from disinformation, misinformation, harassment and abuse are near extinction."<p>This is a nothingburger. Some organizations parasitizing various tax bases to reach a vanishingly small set of viewers intends to investigate the possibility of potentially looking into building some crappy websites that don't meaningfully differ from any number of censored comment sections that already exist.
Translation: We're going to be short, yet tall. Blue-eyed, yet brown-eyed. Right-handed, yet left-handed.<p>> Online spaces that are free from disinformation, misinformation, harassment and abuse are near extinction. The social media environment has splintered into so many echo chambers that exclude diversity of opinion, discourage debate and silence dissent.