https://santaclaraprinciples.org/
So, like everybody else, Human Rights Watch wrote a blog post the other day wringing their hands about how Elon Musk fired half of Twitter's employees and as a result currently does not have a "human rights" team or much of its "trust and safety" team.
Now, firstly, these teams should more aptly be described as Twitter's censorship teams, and they were run by people who were openly biased and used their powers in demonstrably capricious ways for years, often doing lots of harm to their own stated ends.
But what I'd really like to point out is that HRW's post argues that Musk should have Twitter adopt the Santa Clara Principles for Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation.
This makes their outrage about the loss of the pre-Musk human rights team at Twitter a little... Let's say... Confusing.
These are the principles they're advocating for social media:
Human Rights and Due Process
Understandable Rules and Policies
Cultural Competence
State Involvement in Content Moderation
Integrity and Explainability
There's more to it which you can read at the link above, but please tell me: Do ANY OF THESE principles seem to describe content moderation under Twitter?
Have they ever?
That's a rhetorical question. The answer is obviously no.
So... HRW is mad that Musk fired a bunch of people who have had years to adopt a transparent, easy to understand, consistently applied content moderation system that respects due process, allows broad freedom of speech, and doesn't cow to state censorship demands (or if it does, explicitly announces what it's doing)...
And who did basically the opposite of all that, instead.
Got it.