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13 votes
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Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
50 votes -
OnlyFans drops planned porn ban, will continue to allow sexually explicit content
35 votes -
OnlyFans will prohibit "content containing sexually-explicit conduct" (but still allow nudity) starting October 1, at the request of banking/payment providers
50 votes -
Facebook's new "Widely Viewed Content" report doesn't provide meaningful transparency, and seems to be full of errors and spam
5 votes -
Facebook makes it easier for users to see News Feed stories in chronological order
8 votes -
Twitter: Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders
14 votes -
Facebook to lift Australia news ban after government agrees to amendments to proposed legislation requiring them to pay publishers
6 votes -
Google has suspended the Element Matrix client from the Play Store due to abusive content (It's back)
@Element: Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's https://t.co/aaZ9qXz69W but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.
31 votes -
Twitter announces Birdwatch, a community-based approach to misinformation
21 votes -
Twitter will force users to delete COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories
11 votes -
How machine-readable content benefits everyone who publishes content online
4 votes -
Open letter from Facebook content moderators re: pandemic
7 votes -
Reddit quarantined: Can changing platform affordances reduce hateful material online?
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Facebook is updating their hate speech policy to prohibit and remove Holocaust Denial content
16 votes -
Reddit releases their new content policy along with banning hundreds of subreddits, including /r/The_Donald and /r/ChapoTrapHouse
85 votes -
Google will license content from news providers
7 votes -
Google starts deleting location history after eighteen months, by default
12 votes -
#YouDownloadTheAppAndItDoesntWork — Highlighting hypocrisy and double standards on Apple's App Store
9 votes -
One Twitter account is reposting everything Trump tweets. It was suspended within three days
34 votes -
Google to require all advertisers to pass identity verification process
12 votes -
Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news content
6 votes -
Internal TikTok policies instructed moderators to suppress videos featuring unattractive, disabled, or poor people so they wouldn't scare off new users, as well as to remove specific types of content
21 votes -
YouTube moderators are being required to sign a statement acknowledging the job could give them PTSD
26 votes -
The terror queue - Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that's giving them PTSD
13 votes -
Some Reddit comments are being hidden by default as "potentially toxic content" (i.e. a swear filter)
38 votes -
Twitch's latest crackdowns on 'sexual' content are leaving streamers baffled
13 votes -
'Where's the line of free speech – are you removing voices that should be heard?': As YouTube struggles with extreme content, Susan Wojcicki talks about her role as the internet’s gatekeeper
11 votes -
Reddit has quarantined /r/The_Donald
Just happened minutes ago, so not much information yet. I think it's likely that this article from Monday might have finally pushed it over the edge (since it's usually media attention that does...
Just happened minutes ago, so not much information yet.
I think it's likely that this article from Monday might have finally pushed it over the edge (since it's usually media attention that does it): You can’t offer to murder cops on Reddit unless you’re on r/TheDonald
The quarantine message says:
It is restricted due to significant issues with reporting and addressing violations of the Reddit Content Policy. Most recently the violations have included threats of violence against police and public officials.
As a visitor or member, you can help moderators maintain the community by reporting and downvoting rule-breaking content.
Here's the message the admins sent them:
Dear Mods,
We want to let you know that your community has been quarantined, as outlined in Reddit’s Content Policy.
The reason for the quarantine is that over the last few months we have observed repeated rule-breaking behavior in your community and an over-reliance on Reddit admins to manage users and remove posts that violate our content policy, including content that encourages or incites violence. Most recently, we have observed this behavior in the form of encouragement of violence towards police officers and public officials in Oregon. This is not only in violation of our site-wide policies, but also your own community rules (rule #9). You can find violating content that we removed in your mod logs.
As we have discussed in the past, and as detailed in our content policy and moderator guidelines, we expect you to enforce against rule-breaking content. You’ve made progress over the last year, but we continue to observe and take action on a disproportionate amount of rule-breaking behavior in this community. We recognize that you do remove posts that are reported, but we are troubled that violent content more often goes unreported, and worse, is upvoted.
User reports and downvotes are an essential way that Reddit functions to moderate content. Limiting or prohibiting them prevents you from moderating your community effectively. Because of this, we are disabling your custom styling in order to restore these essential functions.
As stated in our Moderator Guidelines, our goal is to keep the platform alive and vibrant, as well as to ensure your community can reach people interested in it. Accordingly, here are the specific terms of the quarantine and the next steps we are asking from you as a mod team to resolve this situation.
Quarantine terms:
Visitors to this community will see a warning that requires users to explicitly opt-in to viewing it. This messaging reminds users of the importance of reporting rule-breaking content.
Custom styling has been disabled to restore the report and downvote buttons.
We hope both these changes will help improve the signal around rule-breaking content and improve your ability to effectively address it.
Next steps:
You unambiguously communicate to your subscribers that violent content is unacceptable.
You communicate to your users that reporting is a core function of Reddit and is essential to maintaining the health and viability of the community.
Following that, we will continue to monitor your community, specifically looking at report rate and for patterns of rule-violating content.
Undertake any other actions you determine to reduce the amount of rule-violating content.
Following these changes, we will consider an appeal to lift the quarantine, in line with the process outlined here.
We hope that this process provides a viable way forward to restore the health of the community. However, if this situation continues to escalate, we will explore further actions, including the possible banning of your community.
Please confirm that you have received and understand this message.
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YouTube under US Federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy
9 votes -
Bodies in seats: At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives
28 votes -
Facebook failed to delete 93% of posts containing speech violating its own rules in India
8 votes -
YouTube just banned supremacist content, and thousands of channels are about to be removed
14 votes -
YouTube now disallows minors from live-streaming unless accompanied by an adult
16 votes -
EFF launches "TOSsed Out", a new project to highlight ways that Terms of Service and other rules are unevenly and unthinkingly applied to people by online services
12 votes -
Tumblr suffers 150 million drop in traffic after porn ban
30 votes -
Inside Facebook’s war on hate speech: An exclusive embed with Facebook’s shadow government
14 votes -
YouTube and demonetization: The hammer and nail of content moderation
8 votes -
The trauma floor - The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
17 votes -
Maintaining trust and safety at Discord with over 200 million people
14 votes -
Reddit is changing the r/popular algorithm so that more discussion-focused subreddits and posts gain visibility
56 votes -
Apple has permanently banned Alex Jones' Infowars app from the App Store
32 votes -
The impossible job: Inside Facebook’s struggle to moderate two billion people
14 votes -
YouTube deletes Alex Jones' channel for violating its community guidelines
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On social media what filters do you have to block content? Any motivation beyond "not interested"?
On Tildes I don't have any filtered tags yet but I did unsubscribe from ~anime, ~books, ~food, ~games, ~movies, ~sports, and ~tv. Wow I just made that list and realized I cut out most of the fun...
On Tildes I don't have any filtered tags yet but I did unsubscribe from ~anime, ~books, ~food, ~games, ~movies, ~sports, and ~tv. Wow I just made that list and realized I cut out most of the fun groups... I'm not sure what that says about me haha. I unsubscribed from all of those because I either don't enjoy those things or if I do, I know what I like and don't have any inclination to discuss them.
Reddit is where I have the most things filtered out. Mostly entire subs from r/all but I have some users blocked too. Like poem_for_your_sprog. Don't get me wrong I like poems in the right context but it throws me off too much when I'm reading an askreddit thread and suddenly find myself reading a poem. A dumb pet peeve.
Facebook it's just random people blocked from showing on the newsfeed.
I have said "not interested" to videos on youtube more times than I would ever care to count. I'm not sure why but they have a really hard time giving me content I want to see. There's usually like 3 videos in the feed I'm down with and the rest is just garbage. They're good about not showing me things I said I'm not interested in but they can't seem to pinpoint what I actually want.
15 votes -
It’s Rubens vs. Facebook in fight over artistic nudity
5 votes -
Is Facebook a publisher? In public it says no, but in court it says yes
6 votes -
Why am I getting all these terms of service update emails?
5 votes