The Economics of Confrontational Conversation.

IEEEMicro PublishedbytheIEEEComputerSociety March/April2021 86 DIFFERENTAPPROACHES Apple'sapproachtocontentmoderationistheeasiest to understand, namely, it "sanitizes" its content during a preapproval process for apps. In one form a platform attractsmore apps or content, and that attracts more users, which then attracts more apps or content, and so on. DEPARTMENT:MICROECONOMICS TheEconomicsofConfrontational Conversation Shane Greenstein,HarvardBusinessSchool,Boston,MA,02163,USA M yfavoritepanelfromRandallMunroe'sonepanel comic, xkcd, is labeled "duty calls." Apple treats violent content and confrontational language just like it treats porn. [Extracted from the article]