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This kind of insinuating nonsense is the worst of gutter journalism. An employee ran a pornographic blog? Their twitter retweeted something a pedophile made? T

This kind of insinuating nonsense is the worst of gutter journalism. An employee ran a pornographic blog? Their twitter retweeted something a pedophile made? The head of content moderation is a furry? So what?! This guilt by association nonsense is the law of contagion! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_contagion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_contagion

nr2x 4y ago
This isn’t some low level SWE with an unusual hobby, it’s the person whom this company is putting out as the reason parents should trust the product. It’s absolutely idiotic on a number of levels.
sosodev 4y ago
Do you really think it's okay for a kids game to promote an artist that openly admits to being pedophile?
- renewiltord 4y ago
  I think I don't believe anyone who just lumps furry porn, cartoon images of childlike anime, and paedophilia together. I auto-dismiss them. Especially when finding the furry porn required an investigation into catching said person's non-work Twitter that was named pseudonymously. You guys over-index on this nonsense because outrage is a drug injected directly into your brain. There's enough wrong about this platform that could be improved, but you're all more interested in just raging online and so you must invent this whole Axis-of-Evil. This, coming from someone whose sexual interests are pretty damned vanilla.
jstarfish 4y ago
If you're openly associating with pedophiles, you're not somebody someone should entrust the safety of their children to. Period. The head of content moderation's personal interests are way off-center. This does not paint them as someone with a good sense of what is moderate. All of this is literally intuition, but we're being trained over time to ignore it in the name of sex-positivity and other nonsense. It's just grooming redefined.
- concordDance 4y ago
  > If you're openly associating with pedophiles, you're not somebody someone should entrust the safety of their children to Retweeting art does not imply any knowledge of the "pedophilia". Also, "pedophile" is a term so general it's sometimes applied to things like finding people aged 17 attractive (which is the majority of heterosexual men). As far as I know the artist in question might just have liked some hentai that had a japanese schoolgirl in at some point. At that point the levels of indirection in your Law of Contagion are absurd even by the standards of believers in majiks! > The head of content moderation's personal interests are way off-center. This does not paint them as someone with a good sense of what is moderate. This would be just as accurate if the moderation head had an interest in gay sex. > All of this is literally intuition And your intuitions aren't anywhere near as strong as the intuitions of the 70s parents who made sure gay men weren't anywhere near their children. Should we have followed those intuitions too?

nr2x 4y ago

This isn’t some low level SWE with an unusual hobby, it’s the person whom this company is putting out as the reason parents should trust the product. It’s absolutely idiotic on a number of levels.

sosodev 4y ago

Do you really think it's okay for a kids game to promote an artist that openly admits to being pedophile?

renewiltord 4y ago
I think I don't believe anyone who just lumps furry porn, cartoon images of childlike anime, and paedophilia together. I auto-dismiss them. Especially when finding the furry porn required an investigation into catching said person's non-work Twitter that was named pseudonymously. You guys over-index on this nonsense because outrage is a drug injected directly into your brain. There's enough wrong about this platform that could be improved, but you're all more interested in just raging online and so you must invent this whole Axis-of-Evil. This, coming from someone whose sexual interests are pretty damned vanilla.

jstarfish 4y ago

If you're openly associating with pedophiles, you're not somebody someone should entrust the safety of their children to. Period. The head of content moderation's personal interests are way off-center. This does not paint them as someone with a good sense of what is moderate. All of this is literally intuition, but we're being trained over time to ignore it in the name of sex-positivity and other nonsense. It's just grooming redefined.

concordDance 4y ago
> If you're openly associating with pedophiles, you're not somebody someone should entrust the safety of their children to Retweeting art does not imply any knowledge of the "pedophilia". Also, "pedophile" is a term so general it's sometimes applied to things like finding people aged 17 attractive (which is the majority of heterosexual men). As far as I know the artist in question might just have liked some hentai that had a japanese schoolgirl in at some point. At that point the levels of indirection in your Law of Contagion are absurd even by the standards of believers in majiks! > The head of content moderation's personal interests are way off-center. This does not paint them as someone with a good sense of what is moderate. This would be just as accurate if the moderation head had an interest in gay sex. > All of this is literally intuition And your intuitions aren't anywhere near as strong as the intuitions of the 70s parents who made sure gay men weren't anywhere near their children. Should we have followed those intuitions too?