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Have you ever browsed, say, the Nigerian or Arabic-language internet? Those people, too, are indeed largely family types who don’t want dick pics or users troll
by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Have you ever browsed, say, the Nigerian or Arabic-language internet? Those people, too, are indeed largely family types who don’t want dick pics or users trolling for giggles. However, those populations hold different views on things like LGBT people or different ethnicities, and they want to air those views, it is a fairly popular subject of conversation. The particular moderation approach chosen by many Western-owned tech services or Mastodon censors those discussions that those populations feel are normal. Certainly one might hope that those parts of the world will come around to one’s own views on certain social issues, but the short-term effect is essentially making whole regions of the world feel like second-class citizens.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoThey are producing a product that is tailored to their customer base. They’re not producing a product for people that don’t shift their revenues materially. A part of it is also they realize that LGBT and those other ethnicities are customers of theirs as well, are also employees and management at those companies, and are their shareholders, and have chosen that the services they provide are friendly to anyone who isn’t being hurtful to anyone else for any reason, but with an emphasis on the areas that matter to them from a brand, revenue, and governance point of view. It is hard to say this is a wrong approach - “be nice to everyone” isn’t exactly controversial, but somehow it’s become so.