Is content moderation a dead end?
&gt;&gt;&gt; One could also think of big European cities before modern policing - 18th century London or Paris were awash with sin and prone to mob violence, because they were cities.<p>Is the solution in the article? Do we simply need to recognise that as all society is online we now need online police? Online Community support officers (UK police adjuncts (think teaching assistants).<p>I suspect there is an overlap with the &quot;defund the police&quot; movement and the notion that we need to take away a lot of policing functions that are not actually violence &#x2F; crime related - eg mental health.  Social work is .. a lot of work.<p>Edit: It&#x27;s worth noting that there are ~24 million or more police officers whose job description simply did not exist before Sir Robert Peel.  That&#x27;s a bigger number than i imagined !<p>wow: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldatlas.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;list-of-countries-by-number-of-police-officers.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldatlas.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;list-of-countries-by-num...</a>