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9 votes
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How a childhood of loneliness and anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet
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YouTube now bans instructional hacking and phishing
31 votes -
Can the left win YouTube?
14 votes -
G-20 leaders resolve to prevent exploitation of Internet for terrorism
G-20 leaders resolve to prevent exploitation of Internet for terrorism This statement was reportedly an initiative of the Australian Prime Minister.
9 votes -
Twitter announces a plan to apply click-through "notices" to future tweets from politicians that violate Twitter rules but are "in the public interest"
18 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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Imgur has raised $20M from Coil, a micropayment tool for creators that Imgur has agreed to build into its service
14 votes -
Icelanders tire of disrespectful Instagram influencers
14 votes -
The internet is increasingly a low-trust society—one where an assumption of pervasive fraud is simply built into the way many things function
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Reddit is testing a paid monthly membership on a per subreddit basis for core features.
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#IAmHere – The people trying to make Facebook a nicer place
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When Myspace was king, employees abused a tool called ‘overlord’ to spy on users
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You can sue media companies over Facebook comments from readers, Australian court rules
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Ravelry (a popular site/community for knitting and crocheting) bans posts in support of Trump or his administration
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Is it possible to moderate a group chat on Facebook?
Long story, but I've ended up becoming the admin of a group on Facebook (the previous admin stepped down in a rush, and added me as he left). And the group has an existing group chat associated...
Long story, but I've ended up becoming the admin of a group on Facebook (the previous admin stepped down in a rush, and added me as he left). And the group has an existing group chat associated with it.
Is it possible to "moderate" this group chat? Specifically, as an admin of the group, can I remove unsavoury/unwanted messages from the chat associated with the group? It looks like I can't.
Can even the creator of a group chat do this? If I close the group chat and create a new one, will I (as its creator) be able to remove unsavoury/unwanted messages from that new chat?
I've done some searching via Google, and I'm not finding anything to indicate that this is possible. If someone posts something unsavoury in a group chat, it looks like the only option is to remove the person from the chat - but the unsavoury messages can't be deleted.
Please tell me that's wrong!
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Reddit is moving forward with their Community Points ("donuts" in /r/ethtrader) experiment, including moving them onto the Ethereum blockchain
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What is Block.one, the company that just paid a record-breaking $30m for the voice.com domain name?
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The death of YouTube skepticism
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YouTube under US Federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy
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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
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Nifty US govt chemical disaster investigation YouTube channel
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Jordan Peterson announces free speech platform Thinkspot
34 votes -
The platform excuse is dying
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Beware the Cheapfakes: Deepfakes are troubling. But disinformation doesn’t have to be high tech to be damaging.
5 votes -
The new wilderness
9 votes -
No, Elon Musk did not delete his Twitter account
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The Trauma Floor: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
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In court, Facebook blames users for destroying their own right to privacy
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No, you’re not addicted to social media: What many commentators describe as an addiction is actually a powerful social norm at work. The distinction matters.
18 votes -
8chan is raided by the FBI regarding California synagogue shooter
@swodinsky: lmaooooooo 8chan just got search warranted
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WeChat is watching
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Alphabet-owned Jigsaw built a fake political site and then hired a Russian troll campaign to attack it
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Facebook failed to delete 93% of posts containing speech violating its own rules in India
8 votes -
Who has your back? Censorship edition 2019 - Report by the EFF that assesses major tech companies' content moderation policies
8 votes -
Introducing Study from Facebook
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YouTube just banned supremacist content, and thousands of channels are about to be removed
14 votes -
The tricky ethics of using YouTube videos for academic research
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How Twitter needs to change | Jack Dorsey
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Facebook suspends app pre-installs on Huawei phones
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US requiring social media information from visa applicants, permanent residents and naturalized citizens
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Facebook shareholder revolt gets bloody: Powerless investors vote overwhelmingly to oust Mark Zuckerberg as chairman
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YouTuber in Barcelona receives fifteen-month prison sentence, 20,000 euro fine, and five-year ban from social media for toothpaste-filled Oreo prank
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Unpopular content: Outsmarting the YouTube algorithm
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Microsoft Windows Terminal YouTube video removed for copyright claim
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Gab is throwing away their existing code and switching to a modified version of Mastodon
Posting this as a text post so that nobody has to go to Gab, but the source is here if you really want to. Full post copied below: An update on "New Gab" and what to expect: Progress on our new...
Posting this as a text post so that nobody has to go to Gab, but the source is here if you really want to. Full post copied below:
An update on "New Gab" and what to expect:
Progress on our new codebase is going well. For those who don't know, our plan is to fork existing open source software, Mastodon, which is based on the ActivityPub social networking protocol.
What does this mean in layman's terms?
- Gab will become an open source project, meaning developers from around the world can contribute the project and help us build.
- Gab will get several new features and PRO benefits, such as video uploading.
- You'll be able to log into and use dozens of existing mobile apps that exist on both App Stores with your Gab account and use Gab through these apps.
- We will be porting over all of your Gab posts, followers, etc to this new codebase.
- Gab will be getting a fresh paint job and be much more "user friendly." (See a mockup below, which isn't final.) Don't worry, it won't look anything like Mastodon (for those of you who know it is,) it will look like Gab.
What does the timeline look like for this going live?
At the moment we are working on building in Gab features that this open source social networking protocol does not currently have. Things like Gab Groups and editing. We are also finalizing a fresh redesign of the Gab interface. Once these two things are done, we will start porting over all existing Gab data. During this time we will invite Gabbers to beta test New Gab and give us feedback. Once Gabbers give us the go ahead we will finalize the transition and push it to Gab.com. All of these steps will occur over the next few weeks.
Why are you doing this?
- Moving Gab to open source brings transparency and additional help from developers in our community from around the world.
- Moving to the ActivityPub protocol as our base allows us to get into mobile App Stores without even having to submit and get approval of our own apps, whether Apple and Google like it or not.
- Ultimately we want to make Gab more user friendly, perform better, and be a product you all love. This will accomplish all of those things.
We are excited to share this with you and will have more information soon.
Thank you
This is a pretty interesting move by Gab. They had been kicked out of app stores, and like the post mentions, this will allow them to just piggyback on existing apps that work with Mastodon instead of needing their own. I saw at least one app dev say that they'd specifically block it from being used on Gab, but they probably won't all do that, and I'm sure they'll probably end up with some options.
People in the fediverse don't seem very happy about this overall, but it's probably also not a big deal. The main dev of Mastodon posted:
So Gab has decided that their own code that they spent $5M of investor money developing is so unsalvageably bad that they're going to use Mastodon's code instead, with the added bonus of leeching off of our apps (with Gab apps being banned from app stores)
This is an early warning to fellow admins to be vigilant and domain-block them on sight, when/if they appear (unconfirmed whether they intend to federate), and to app devs to consider if blocking Gab's domains from their app is necessary.
Remember that Gab is a sinking ship and they're basically grabbing onto Mastodon like a parasite in a desperate attempt to get attention from the "drama" of doing so.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gab-is-in-full-meltdown-and-founder-andrew-torba-blames-the-deep-state
Torba has no self-awareness to see how pathetic it looks that his master race ass is incompetent at making a working website so he has to resort to using software made by a Jew instead.
App devs will block their domains, server admins will block their domains, and that'll be the end of that.
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Twitter has started researching whether white supremacists belong on Twitter
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Confessions of a Reddit 'Karma Whore': My years-long journey to the top of Reddit's karma leaderboards has only made me feel more alone
21 votes -
When a fatal grizzly mauling goes viral - How much does the world need to know about a deadly bear attack?
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In 2017, Hussein Kesvani started getting regular Twitter messages from an anonymous Islamophobic user. Eventually he responded, they started talking, and arranged to meet
7 votes