Flagging systems transform users into amateur editors and police

Evidence

From that moment, platform managers must in part think of, address, and manage users as such. This adds another layer to how users are conceived of, along with seeing them as customers, producers, free labor, and commodity. And it would not be this way if moderation were handled differently. — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet, 630

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s earlier note that flag interfaces cannot express civic defense of troubling content (ch4), and that platforms deputize users into moderation labor. — connects to: Aggregated user tags could power optional community-run content filters — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms,…, 612; Flag interfaces cannot express civic defense of troubling content — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms,…, 286; Networked audiences enable public enforcement of social norms — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 575 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Networked audiences enable public enforcement of social norms #expands (0.85) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 575
• Control societies replace external surveillance with internalized self-policing #expands (0.80) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 48
• Manufactured objects encode impersonal directives that strip users of individuality #epitomizes (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 504