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I am not going to defend Chinese censorship - I think it is way overdone and a huge waste of resources but all companies operating in China must uphold this reg
by throwaway4good 4y ago
I am not going to defend Chinese censorship - I think it is way overdone and a huge waste of resources but all companies operating in China must uphold this regime and pay the cost associated with it.
However all countries have laws and norms governing satire and free speech.
For example the Mohammed cartoons (deliberately drawn to trigger a reaction / discussion of free speech and censorship):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_car...
Or this Australian drawing of American tennis superstar Serena Williams:
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/10844900 https://amp.abc.net.au/article/10844900
Widely seen as racist by the American audience.
- fsloth 4y agoBeing offended, and censoring are two different things. Free speech should allow speech that offends people.
- throwaway4good 4y agoThe first is an example of a drawing censored in a large part of the world. The second is an example of a cartoon that likely would have been deemed against “media standards” had the organ that did the assessment been in the US and not in Australia.
- himinlomax 4y agoMany countries have laws against homosexual displays of affection, so by that logic, Midjourney should remove any LGBT content.
- throwaway4good 4y agoI would guess they end up disabling functionality by geolocation.