Teal_Tiger

No group of people in human history, not on-line, not in real life, has ever existed without content moderation.

The idea that Reddit, or Twitter, or Nostr, or any other place, virtual or otherwise can, should, or ever will exist without content moderation is fucking absurd. You have to be brain-dead to believe something so obviously idiotic. And to frame that ridiculous delusion in terms like "free speech" only goes to show that nobody has a clue what they're talking about.

Sensationalist media, the Chris Hansen types who make piles of money drumming up hysterical fear of X or Y, love to use words like "predator" and "prey on" because it evokes images that stick in the mind. It gets people emotional. Having a calm rational public is not profitable for them.

#SPR860

Real solution:

A. lower the age of majority to 16 (even runaways need legal rights)

B. decriminalize all sex work (cops should work for the prostitutes not against them)

C. triple the minimum wage (make non-sex work far more attractive and sustainable) #NotRocketScience

Some of us are old enough to remember back when the neo-Puritans used terms like "The Gay Agenda" to terrify parents. They wanted to think LGBTQ+ people were trying to convert your sons and daughters, to win them over for the dark side like Darth Vader.

Today on Twitter if you state a simple fact like 16 year olds are young men and women, you'll be assaulted with accusations that you are promoting "The Pedo Agenda"

Within a couple of years we'll see terms like "The Perv Agenda" or "The Kink Agenda"

Or maybe the neo-Puritans will replace the word agenda altogether. But they will find new scary-as-hell labels for sex positive people who want a healthy, natural, realistic approach to erotic activities.

They need to gin up fear. Otherwise they can't justify the repression.

I can't think of a better argument to keep using regular money :-D

I just skimmed through a video where the author's conclusion is based entirely on the idea that kids are too stupid to understand that there's a difference between cartoons and real life.

The level of stupid on YouTube is astounding.

Total fear-mongering bullshit.

The key word here is "SUSPECTED"... they don't know. With millions of users on the platform they suspect 600 pics.

"found over 600 pieces of known or suspected child abuse material"

No one in their organization could look at 600 pics BEFORE they wrote the report?

This is not a serious group of researchers. They are obviously lying like hell.

Why do they suspect these 600 pics?

because “We got more photoDNA hits"...

in plain English that means their software flagged the photos. A robot said they are suspicious. Out of millions and millions of pics all over Mastodon 600 are maybe bad according to a bot.

Here's a link to the absolute shit propaganda:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/24/twitter-rival-mastodon-rife-with-child-abuse-material-study-finds/