Every day, vast amounts of online content gets filtered, labeled, downranked, removed, or left up.Those decisions shape what we see, what spreads, and who gets harmed. Let’s look at what it means to “keep the internet safe” at scale: the ethical tradeoffs behind moderation policies, the limits of automation, how bias and context slip into supposedly “neutral” rules, and what real accountability could look like when platforms move fast and consequences occur unevenly. Who makes these calls, what gets missed, and what would a better system require?