Olives @olives@qoto.org

I've seen a few people refer to censorship as governmental and moderation as private censorship, however, I don't think that captures the dynamics here.

With private censorship, it is important to understand that a lot of the concern comes from the *sheer scale* at which they censor people.

The terms "moderation" and "censorship" come from different social contexts.

One is a term which community managers came up with to describe what they do.

One is a reaction to what governments (if you remember, governments even used to have offices with names like the Office of Film Censors) and private actors do (private censorship has gotten a lot more scrutiny in recent years).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust Worth reading. #privacy

In one case, they put emphasis on pushing for improvements in appeals processes and the like. They then go "hoorah!" as if this is a big victory.

It isn't as if this is without value but a bigger issue are deliberate policy decisions. Facebook removing nudity is a deliberate policy decision. It's not as simple as someone making a mistake.

I've seen the EFF and the ACLU doing good work to defend free expression.

Looking at their site, GFF does good work on privacy but is almost absent on free expression issues.

Privacy is still an important area to work in, and it's good that they do that, but it's also worth considering their limitations. Don't expect too much from them in that area.

No one expects the new admin problem.

For instance, eBay got a new CEO and then decided to ban NSFW products. Could be worse on the fediverse, if someone is used to certain dynamics with the admin.

Just in case it comes up again.

Reminder that "safety by design" is a euphemism for censorship which an unreasonable foreign politician came up with.

I'm not asking for a whole lot by pointing out bad instances. Just two things:

1) Don't use them.

2) Don't recommend them.

I'm not asking anyone to reform them or whatever.

I'm not asking anyone to not use any particular social network either, because frankly, a lot of the time someone kind of has too.

In fact, I think RMS was almost finished off a few years ago, probably largely because he didn't have a social media presence.

There are people who like to speculate over which character would beat another character, but because the One Punch Man's entire character is a gag, it kind of breaks that.

Will the consciousness of the universe fight him and end up losing?

Is Galactus going to make an appearance just so he can be defeated?

One Punch Man is still going on? What's next? Is he going to defeat God? #anime

I'm also curious about how well the poll functionality is working.

I should have added an option for Space Dragons.

What do you prefer?

You know what, just because I can, let's do a poll.

Which one do you prefer? #anime