Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.

IHeartBadCode@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• misk@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s also what many other social media would do because it’s easier to ban posting of personal information regardless of where it came from because you can’t trust moderation you outsourced to some third world country to do proper checks.

  Example:

  No. Reddit is quite open and pro-free speech, but it is not okay to post someone’s personal information or post links to personal information. This includes links to public Facebook pages and screenshots of Facebook pages with the names still legible.

  Posting someone’s personal information will get you banned. When posting screenshots, be sure to edit out any personally identifiable information to avoid running afoul of this rule.

  https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043066452-Is-posting-someone-s-private-or-personal-information-okay

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  • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bullshit. They’re just protecting Nazis. A competent programmer could write an algorithm to knock out the low hanging fruit, like public Facebook pages, in about five minutes.

    Might take me a couple hours. Someone genuinely good and familiar with the space would have been done in less time than it took to write this comment.

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    • misk@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They don’t want to deal with the slightest risk of dealing with legal consequences. The ole corpo risk matrix + risk appetite as assessed by lawyers resulted in this, no IT involved ever probably.

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      • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Totally, corporations will always go fasch, not just because they want to¹ but because it’s what they are

        But

        can’t trust moderation

        There is low hanging fruit that can be procedurally verified.

        They chose this, obviously, clearly

        ¹they always want to

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  • 73ms@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    can always come up with rationalizations but the fact remains there are other platforms that will not “cost optimize” it away.

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    • misk@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Those platforms are irrelevant. Yes, I realise I’m using an irrelevant platform - that was always my intention.

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