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by heresie-dabord
1117 days ago
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> you can post whatever you want, unless the algorithms decide it's against the community standards To the extent that social media is like a village (a medium-to-large number of people expressing themselves), there have always been community standards in any society. > mainstream social networks People who sufficiently resent aspects of broader society can find smaller groups. These smaller groups will themselves have community standards. The expectation of unfettered freedom of speech is at best naive, especially when the things people say incite violence. |
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When Meta says "community standards" they aren't actually community standards at all. Meta unilaterally decides what their "community standards" are. I've had posts about lighting a campfire for my family, and showing off vegetables from my garden flagged as "violating community standards". We're not even getting into sex, religion and politics, which I also believe are areas of life that we need to be able to have open conversations about in public forums, rather than having an unaccountable organization unilaterally decide for us what is right and wrong.
> The expectation of unfettered freedom of speech is at best naive, especially when the things people say incite violence.
Given the tendency for violence to be associated with calls for free speech, I understand how you could assume that I'm talking about speech that incites violence. But actually, I'm talking about much more innocuous things like talking about non-traditional relationship styles, alternative lifestyles, body positivity, open medical data, thought experiments and well thought out challenges to the status quo.