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You Can't Say That On the Internet
hessian writes in with a story about the arbitrary and often outdated online decency standards being imposed by companies."A bastion of openness and counterculture, Silicon Valley imagines itself as the un-Chick-fil-A. But its hyper-tolerant facade often masks deeply conservative, outdated norms that digital culture discreetly imposes on billions of technology users worldwide. What is the vehicle for this new prudishness? Dour, one-dimensional algorithms, the mathematical constructs that automatically determine the limits of what is culturally acceptable. Consider just a few recent kerfuffles. In early September, The New Yorker found its Facebook page blocked for violating the site’s nudity and sex standards. Its offense: a cartoon of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Eve’s bared nipples failed Facebook’s decency test."
Silicon Valley imagines itself as the un-Chick-fil-A
Eve’s bared nipples failed Facebook’s decency test
LOL facebook is for middle aged women to check every 15 seconds for new pixs of their friends kids or pix of their "fur babies" aka over pampered dogs, and teenage girls to sling insults at each other and compete about friend counts. Guys mostly post "blackmail pixs" for fun of their buddies throwing up, getting high, or getting it on with a landwhale.
"tits or GTFO" is not going to work on FB. Its middle aged woman / teen girl culture not online or whatever.
Now if you posted a nice rack on a "internet culture" area like 4chan or maybe a link here on /., that would more or less work.
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No, but they might bomb you if you offend them by being in a nightclub for people with the wrong sexual orientation.
You may also offend them by being poor, in which case they might just steal your recently born baby.
Of course, these are exceptions. But so is your accusation.
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"Dour, one-dimensional algorithms" didn't decide cartoon nipples are taboo in Texarkana. People did.
Don't like it? Start making as much noise when something is censored as the prudes do when they see a bare boob on the boob tube.
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I'm in the UK and for what it's worth I'm a transsexual currently growing her own boobs, (not bad, a bit more than a B cup at the moment :-) )
The situation is interesting though, if I'm in male mode and strip my top off from there in a situation where male bare-chestedness is appropriate (say a normal beach) then that is OK as far as the cops are concerned.
But it's not OK if I strip off from a Skirt and Bra.
I actually find this quite an enlightened attitude. In the rare case that I'm presenting as male I'm treated as one
When I'm presenting as female then I'm treated as one
Which is how it should be. I do find this whole thing about nipples (in the USA ) a bit ridiculous, and to be honest a bit childish, it smacks a bit of giggling in the playground
It is however an insidious way of introducing censorship.
In the UK we treat sexuality ( and nipples ) a bit more seriously, strangely thanks to the murdoch press and the Sun (a low brow, very popular newspaper ) girls on page 3
But we fall down considerably on freedom of speech at the moment ( witness the guy being arrested for a burning poppy on his FB page along with calling squaddies c*nts, as if they would care )