We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates
This article could use big improvements in both its tone and organization.<p>People don&#x27;t have a lot of love for greedy sports broadcasters, and tech people are often associated with a kind of &quot;information wants to be free&quot; ethos (for better or worse), so starting out your blog post with:<p>&gt; <i>identify and take action against soccer pirates and other delinquents who try to stream copyrighted content</i><p>comes across as pretty tone-deaf for the intended audience. <i>Delinquents?</i> What&#x27;s next, are they going to tell me not to copy that floppy, or ask if I&#x27;d download a car?<p>What&#x27;s crazier is that they actually have <i>good justification</i> but don&#x27;t put it <i>until the end of the article</i> -- that pirates are using the service to broadcast streams that become super-popular (racking up charges) and then <i>don&#x27;t pay their bills</i> for bandwidth and processing, losing near a million dollars in a year. Talk about burying the lead.<p>This article is a great example of what <i>not</i> to do. But it&#x27;s a great learning opportunity for the rest of us. Always <i>start</i> your article with <i>why</i> the article subject matters. Don&#x27;t wait until the end, don&#x27;t just assume the reader is on your side.<p>...And also maybe don&#x27;t call people delinquents when a decent proportion of your readership probably watches some of these same pirated streams...