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> If you're not even doing basic moderation for the obvious terms in foreign languages

So anyone who starts a website allowing public posting needs to hire moderators fluent in the hundreds of languages that will be used there? There's at least 18 languages that are widely officially used across the world, plus more that are national languages of only one country, and over 7,000 total languages in existence.

This is why we have Section 230. Otherwise, we would only be able to use "approved" languages online to avoid liability, which would obviously be terrible.

Clearly the lesson here is that no-one should try to be a global website. The US version can allow only English and Spanish. The Canada version can allow English and French... However it would be interesting to figure out what they do with e.g. Portuguese written in sound-alike English words (is that possible?)

> anyone who starts a website allowing public posting needs to hire moderators fluent in the hundreds of languages that will be used there?

In the EU, that's how it goes. I think there's a minimum amount of visits/users though

The internet is littered with stories of how hard it is to battle this stuff. Some have even decided it’s not worth it and shut down. This very comments section calls out some efforts a lot more sophisticated than “basic moderation of the obvious terms”. Your cynicism needs some serious calibration.

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