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unmoderated

British  
/ ʌnˈmɒdəˌreɪtɪd /

adjective

  1. (of an online chatroom, newsgroup, etc) not monitored for inappropriate content, time wasting, or bad language

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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She added: "These AI images don't appear from nowhere – they're built from real disabled people's images, often without consent – and unmoderated comment threads turbocharge objectification and harassment."

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

He has met with advertisers and, more recently, with civil rights groups to assure them that Twitter won’t become — in his own words — a “free-for-all hellscape” of unmoderated content.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

Mr. Romero’s statement on Tuesday was notably less concerned with the thinking of the opponents of free, unmoderated speech online.

From Washington Times ● May 10, 2022

Every unmoderated platform goes to shit because it only takes a few bad-faith users to make it miserable for everyone.

From The Verge ● Apr. 15, 2022

Most newsgroups are unmoderated, which means that every message you post will eventually wind up on every host system within the geographic region you specified that carries that newsgroup.

From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation

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