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He's written about it several times, here's the main article: https://www.techdirt.com/2019/11/20/masnicks-impossibility-theorem-content-moderation-scale-is-impossible-to-do-well/
The main idea, at least the way I look at it, is that at small scale, it's possible to have an actual shared context and shared values. This is impossible at large scales.
Here's a specific example where moderation without context makes a (relatively harmless in this case, and funny) decision: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/09/23/the-most-famous-blunder-of-content-moderation-do-not-quote-the-princess-bride/
@burly @mastodonmigration In a furtherly-funny incident, Bluesky (which Mike is on the board of) suspended someone for quoting a Johnny Cash lyric, in response to an article about Johnny Cash, basically exactly the same thing Mike had written about years before.
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