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But digital services do actively censor posts, even if your post is perfectly legal. Postal services do not destroy letters with pictures of nipples in it, just
by yabatopia 10y ago
But digital services do actively censor posts, even if your post is perfectly legal. Postal services do not destroy letters with pictures of nipples in it, just try to post an image of a female breast on Facebook. If they can censor nipples, they can actively filter hate speech or abusive posts just fine. Claimining it's too difficult to monitor posts pro–actively was probably true in 2005, but not anymore. Right now, platforms like Facebook are eating cake and having it too.
- jbuzbee 10y agothey can actively filter hate speech or abusive posts just fine And how, pray tell, do you identify "hate speech"? Who's the judge? You're going to get a different answer in Iran than you do in Switzerland. Not to mention the obvious, that the answer to to speech you don't like, is more speech, not censorship.
- bgw 10y agoDisregarding context in a narrow focus image, how can you differentiate between male and female nipples?
- yorwba 10y agoLook at the curvature of the surrounding skin. I bet even a CNN could learn it.
- stevekemp 10y agoTake a look at the following instagram account, where somebody is posting pictures that are delightfully ambiguous: https://www.instagram.com/genderless_nipples/ https://www.instagram.com/genderless_nipples/ This has been written up on a few news-sites, for example: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/19/genderless-nipples-generates-50000-followers-on-instagram https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/19/genderless-nip...
- Sacho 10y agoWell, parent's argument is that Facebook is already deciding which speech they don't like, so they're already doing some kind of identification. The question then becomes, can government compel them to change that definition to meet laws and regulations that the govt. wants to enforce? Companies already cater to national laws, e.g. Twitter censoring accounts in Turkey on the behest of their government.
- pjc50 10y ago> more speech In a technological world this just results in megaphone / spam wars, ultimately destroying the value of communication channels. Almost everyone finds a moderated platform more useful than an unmoderated one.