{"id":812,"date":"2007-06-06T00:45:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=812"},"modified":"2007-06-06T00:45:09","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T22:45:09","slug":"user-generated-content-user-generated-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"User generated content, user generated problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was having dinner with my friend Lars Hinrichs of <a href=\"http:\/\/Xing.com\">Xing<\/a> but the dinner was soured by the fact that somebody had posted antisemitic remarks in Xing and the press was accusing Xing\u00b4s management of being antisemitic.  Other than the fact that as a buddy of Lars and being Jewish myself I can say that Lars is clearly not an antisemite I think that as Youtube and many others are seeing, &#8220;user generated content&#8221; also implies &#8220;user generated problems&#8221;.  Will the traditional press ever understand that web 2.0 web sites cannot hire armies of people to police their own user generated content web sites?  The only way user generated web sites can be managed is flagging offensive content. It is only then that web sites responsibility begins.  And indeed if Xing had failed to remove those remarks it would be at fault.  But they reacted immediately.  And that is the only way the web 2.0 can truly function.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=812\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was having dinner with my friend Lars Hinrichs of Xing but the dinner was soured by the fact that somebody had posted antisemitic remarks in Xing and the press was accusing Xing\u00b4s management of being antisemitic. Other than the fact that as a buddy of Lars and being Jewish myself I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}