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The internet war on sex is here

16 points by vengefulduck 8y ago

Waterluvian 8y ago
"LGBTQI" The fact that this acronym keeps changing and growing underlines how absurd it is to try to classify sexuality. I don't think there's a winning move. Let humans be human and hope that the advertisers will come around eventually.
- jimktrains2 8y ago
  A bi friend of mine ended up just using QUILTBAG at some point. Questioning Undecided Intersex Lesbian Trans Bisexual Asexual Gay It's not entirely encompassing either. For example, pansexual isn't listed. I've always thought it sounded too much like "dirt bag" to use myself as a cis, hetero male and hence worry I'll be misunderstood as trying to make it sound derogative.
RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y ago
Remember these are all private companies and have the right to decide what content is on their platform. If you want something different, you are free to create your new own platform. However, I suspect that what happened to the “free speech” platforms will happen happen to that inthat you will get the extreme content and end up with a bad reputation and get shunned by advertisers, payment processors, etc.
- derblitzmann 8y ago
  Yep, you are free to make your own platform, except don't expect PayPal or any other processor to support you if you don't already fit on online networks.
- zorronimous 8y ago
  Ye ye, advertiser safe zones. Lets build an index and treat people using these products apropriately. Its all about proper treatment afterall(?)
Bucephalus355 8y ago
This will probably wind up going way to far and becoming overrestrictive, but at another level seems like natural reflexive response to oversexualization of the last couple of decades. There is an interesting trend in society where gender roles and norms converge (so become more similar) alongside sex becoming more free and open. When gender roles diverge, sex becomes more restricted and the differences between men and women are more enforced by society and communicated through culture. Part of it is economic. In times that are very good (for the working class), usually there is enough for 1 partner (usually the woman) to stay home. When times are bad, both partners need to work, thus overlapping their spheres of living. Peter Turchin is an academic who has written about this the last few years with data from the GFC of 2008. Interesting stuff.

16 points by vengefulduck 8y ago

"LGBTQI" The fact that this acronym keeps changing and growing underlines how absurd it is to try to classify sexuality. I don't think there's a winning move. Let humans be human and hope that the advertisers will come around eventually.

jimktrains2 8y ago
A bi friend of mine ended up just using QUILTBAG at some point. Questioning Undecided Intersex Lesbian Trans Bisexual Asexual Gay It's not entirely encompassing either. For example, pansexual isn't listed. I've always thought it sounded too much like "dirt bag" to use myself as a cis, hetero male and hence worry I'll be misunderstood as trying to make it sound derogative.

RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y ago

Remember these are all private companies and have the right to decide what content is on their platform. If you want something different, you are free to create your new own platform. However, I suspect that what happened to the “free speech” platforms will happen happen to that inthat you will get the extreme content and end up with a bad reputation and get shunned by advertisers, payment processors, etc.

derblitzmann 8y ago
Yep, you are free to make your own platform, except don't expect PayPal or any other processor to support you if you don't already fit on online networks.
zorronimous 8y ago
Ye ye, advertiser safe zones. Lets build an index and treat people using these products apropriately. Its all about proper treatment afterall(?)

Bucephalus355 8y ago

This will probably wind up going way to far and becoming overrestrictive, but at another level seems like natural reflexive response to oversexualization of the last couple of decades. There is an interesting trend in society where gender roles and norms converge (so become more similar) alongside sex becoming more free and open. When gender roles diverge, sex becomes more restricted and the differences between men and women are more enforced by society and communicated through culture. Part of it is economic. In times that are very good (for the working class), usually there is enough for 1 partner (usually the woman) to stay home. When times are bad, both partners need to work, thus overlapping their spheres of living. Peter Turchin is an academic who has written about this the last few years with data from the GFC of 2008. Interesting stuff.