I’m not confident the “moral norms” prevalent in SV and/or US academia are common, if by that you mean norms that are prevalent in the general populace.
Example of "moral policy" in practice: Midjourney appears to be banning making fun of the Chinese dictator for life because it's supposedly racist or something.
With that kind of moral compass, I’m not sure I'd be missing its absence.
> Example of "moral policy" in practice: Midjourney appears to be banning making fun of the Chinese dictator for life because it's supposedly racist or something.
> With that kind of moral compass, I’m not sure I'd be missing its absence.
Please note that most forms of media and social media have no problem with politicians making credible threats of violence against entire groups of people.
Politicians are subject to a different set of rules, and enjoy a lot more protection than you and I.
The issue here is not with online platform services allowing politicians more leeway in terms of what they can get away with on their platform.
The actual issue is Midjourney not allowing regular users generate certain type of material solely because it makes fun of a political figure. What you are talking about is entirely tangential to the issue the grandparent comment is talking about.
I don't think anyone in real life would choose that tradeoff but it's what happens when all of your "safety" training is about US culture war buttons.