Unless you're suggesting that we return to an era in which the only way to publish content is with the approval of someone like a newspaper editor or book publisher, these jobs will need to be done.
It'd be significantly tougher for advertisers and PR agencies, however.
Good. We shouldn’t allow habitual liars to determine what’s possible, or make their lives easier. I’d happily grind the social media, advertising, and public relations “industries” into dust for the good of us all.
"Yet you participate in society. Curious!"
Your stated view isn't that many-to-many moderated social media website should do better, it is that many-to-many moderated social media websites shouldn't exist. Because this is a recreational activity, and because the alternatives you suggested are massively popular, 'Yet you participate in society. Curious!' does not apply.
Message received loud and clear.
It's not a good message, to put it about as nicely as I possibly can, but I've received it.
Nooooo. I mean, yes, content moderation in the modern sense of "trying to mitigate the insanity that is randos posting a firehose of crap that's by-default instantly published to the world and which our stupid algorithms may well choose to shove in lots of people's faces" but no in the sense of selecting what one chooses to publish from among some submissions, which pre-dates the Internet sense of "content moderation" and doesn't seem to be a problem unless you have a publish-by-default-without-review policy that lets some amount of the crap get through, and barely vet your submitters at all.
> None of that is reasonable or desirable by most humans.
OK. So we choose—choose—to have a job category that will cause significant, lasting harm to some percentage of the workers doing it.
But let's stop also insulting them by claiming we're doing it because we "have to".
It's so weird that defenders of algorithmic hate machines accept them as some sort of natural law, forgetting that humanity somehow muddled along for millennial without the benefit of dopamine hijacking.
Now every god damn idiot can have a Twitter page or a Facebook echo chamber group and easily spread their bullshit there. Yeah, I wouldn't mind going back to that era you mention.
usenet and web forums have existed for a very long time before blogs. It didn't take much to spam newsgroups or online bulletin pages.