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Why is it reasonable?
by pavel_lishin 3y ago
Why is it reasonable?
- danpalmer 3y agoDistributing sexually explicit material is subject to many tricky laws around the world. It's illegal in some places, requires age restrictions in others. It's reasonable for any hosting provider to say they are not going to get involved in that legal quagmire.
- margana 3y agoIt is also reasonable for any client to say they are not going to involve themselves with a platform that will freeze their account and cause them to lose data because some faulty heuristic triggered and the company is not even willing to manually review things (even though they sometimes falsely claim they do review things when they didn't).
- nickelpro 3y agoYes, both things are reasonable, neither makes the other untrue.
- danpalmer 3y agoThat's reasonable, but a non-sequitur here surely. The author's account is not suspended, they have not lost data, and any heuristics were clearly correct in that they were publishing sexually explicit material.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoFor one example, Florida introduced a law enforcing age verifications for pornographic content; it's easier to prohibit using a platform to distribute said content, than to introduce a content rating and age verification system.
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- snakeyjake 3y agoIf HN can prohibit explicit content, why not Google? It's their servers, they can do with them what they want.