Olives @olives@qoto.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
I figured I'd mention that since I saw someone approaching that in good faith (and trying to protect free expression). Don't get too swept up by it.
Also, as I said in 2023, cops have never had more tools than in the modern day.
That isn't covered in this particular post because:
1) It's a bad faith argument (from what I've seen).
2) It doesn't fit with the style of the post.
3) It's implicitly addressed.
https://qoto.org/@olives/113820598818964716
As said in 2023, the argument it might be "harder" for cops is overrated. It's one a few folks have used since the *90s*. It's not new, they've just repackaged it as "AI". Also, the sheer breadth, conflations, history and footnotes betray their true motivations.
I actually kind of disagree with it. I remember that there was a word, somewhat mental health related, and it had a quadruple, quintuple meaning, and it ranged from neutral to very very bad.
At the very least, for the sake of clarity, it makes sense to use a different word. But, then word policing might be troublesome.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4780288/
"In addition, promoting diagnostic relabeling to erase stigma makes the anti‐stigma agenda look easy. All we need to do is change the words."
"Diagnostic relabeling encourages word police, prodding media and others to improve their language. Research shows, however, that protest efforts to stop inappropriate words do not diminish stigma, and sometimes even worsen it."
Mental health.
I don't think I mentioned it directly in the long post, so I'm just going to note that benevolence can also be a form of stigma.
For instance, assuming someone to be incompetent and them being taken care of by a benevolent figure.
I don't think a "civility police" (i.e. never say a specific bad word, such as "crazy" in "this censorship bill is crazy") makes sense on the Internet and can be overwhelming / frustrating for users.
Apparently, the U.K. Government is interested in passing a bill to remove small sites from the scope of the OSB (although, the serpent has other fangs).
Looks like there is going to be another talk on financial censorship in Japan soon.
It involves law professors, a couple of free expression non-profits and a former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression.
https://apnews.com/article/iowa-civil-rights-code-gender-identity-cf68d2183210133b15a47e526ad2fb0d
"About half of U.S. states include gender identity in their civil rights code to protect against discrimination in housing and public places, such as stores or restaurants, according to the Movement Advancement Project."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/15/facebook-blocks-bans-users-sharing-guardian-article-showing-aboriginal-men-in-chains From 2020, #Facebook bans users sharing a news article containing historical photographs of slaves. #FreeSpeech #Australia
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/vienna-museums-turn-to-onlyfans-to-avoid-censorship Museums adopt OnlyFans due to censorship of nudity (i.e. sculptures) on platforms. #FreeSpeech #Austria
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/19/facebook-meta-vietnam-government-censorship/
"The company is not unique in removing sensitive content in Vietnam. Since 2019, Google, which owns YouTube, has received more than 2,000 government requests to take down content in Vietnam and has complied with the vast majority of them, according to company data. TikTok says it removed or restricted more than 300 posts in the country last year for violating local law."
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https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/vienna-museums-turn-to-onlyfans-to-avoid-censorship
"A group of museums in Vienna have banded together to create an OnlyFans account where, for $5 per month, subscribers can view works of fine art including the aforementioned sculpture (a nude female figure made of limestone and dating back to circa 25,000 BCE), paintings by the expressionists Egon Schiele and Richard Gerstl, work by graphic artist Koloman Moser, the Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani, and more."
"The initiative is a response to guidelines on other, more mainstream social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok, that keep the museums from sharing images with nudity there."
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http://tribune.com.pk/story/855030/facebook-censored-54-posts-for-blasphemy-in-pakistan-in-second-half-of-2014/
"This, however, was down from the massive 1,773 pieces of content blocked in Pakistan by the social networking site in the first half of 2014 following requests made by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and the Ministry of Information Technology to block content for blasphemy and criticism of the state."
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/15/facebook-blocks-bans-users-sharing-guardian-article-showing-aboriginal-men-in-chains
"Facebook has blocked and in some cases banned users who tried to share a Guardian article about the site incorrectly blocking an image of Aboriginal men in chains."
"The post was made in the context of the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, claiming there was no slavery in Australia, before he backed down on those comments a day later."
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/27/facebook-apologises-flagging-plymouth-hoe-offensive-term
"Plymouth Hoe is one of the most well-known sites in the UK’s seafaring history, the spot where Sir Francis Drake reputedly finished a game of bowls before heading out to fight the Spanish Armada.
But Facebook has found itself in hot water after challenging some posts from local people who innocently mentioned the Hoe, mistakenly thinking they were using a misogynist term."
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https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/4/22519433/tiktok-intersex-ban-mistake-moderation-transparency "TikTok says the repeat removal of the intersex hashtag was a mistake"
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https://www.eff.org/tossedout/twin-horror-filmmakers-soska-sisters-suspended-twice-twitter
"Jen and Sylvia Soska are identical twin filmmakers known as The Soska Sisters. The sisters specialize in horror and have a cult following, with more than 50,000 fans on Twitter. But in July 2019, they faced a horror of their own: Their Twitter account was suspended right after they released the trailer for their upcoming film, a remake of 1977's "Rabid."
Stills from the film were featured on the cover of two magazines but were too much for Twitter's moderators, who suspended the account for containing too much "gore, violence, and hate,""
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
