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How Content Related Businesses Will Change After Code of Conduct Being Accepted

18 January 2018, 13:52 CET

The recently developed Code of Conduct relates to standards that social networks must adhere when it comes to illegal content deletion. Although, the problems with hate speech in the Internet and other kind of illegal content are existing for years this code has been developed recently and this means that the game rules are going to change soon after this code is being ratified.

Code of Conduct

Previously, most of the resources with the user-generated content had almost no liability for the content generated by users - and it was up to the resource whether to delete this illegal content or not usually - all the resource owner had to do is to publish corresponding disclaimer. If you were the user that generated illegal content you could be banned by the moderator although the ban could be surpassed if you managed to find the best VPN for you - it all depended on the service's internal policy which wasn't regulated by the state.

The Meaning of the Code of Conduct

However, after the mentioned above code is being implemented everything will change. Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has already started hiring more moderators and he will hire more to prevent spreading of illegal content and social networks like Twitter, Instagram and others are going to do the same. And if such giants can afford hiring thousands of new employees, smaller resources with user-generated content may have problems with that.

Mark Zuckerberg

Due to this fact it is going to becomes obligatory, there is going to be more interest in development of neural networks that can define the illegal content patterns.

Moreover, it means that soon along with the problem of attracting users you will have to solve one more problem - how to provide efficient moderation of content and avoid losing users and traffic on your resource.

However, there are still many nuances to be clarified before the code is going to be enforced fully for resources with small traffic - it also may happen that there won't be any attention paid to the activity there due to the fact the main purpose of the code is to prevent wide spreading of the illegal content via the Web which cannot be done from the resource with the small traffic.

Conclusion

Although accepting this code will negatively affect sources that are based on user-generated content there is still a chance that it won't lead to serious problems in the industry due to the fact there is not much content that can be called illegal nowadays. It will be harder if "fake news" will also be officially included to the list of illegal content as it is rather hard to make a clear definition of fake news.

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