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hessian writes in with a story about the arbitrary and often outdated online decency standards being imposed by companies."A bastion of openness and counterculture, Silicon Valley imagines itself as the un-Chick-fil-A. But its hyper-tolerant facade often masks deeply conservative, outdated norms that digital culture discreetly imposes on billions of technology users worldwide.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."

Comments

Re:Sounds like a campus speech code

[scottbomb]

Must.

Not.

Offend.

Anyone.

(unless the target is conservative Christian white males)

FTFY.

Re:Sounds like a campus speech code

[HornWumpus]

You have man boobs (moobs). These are never appropriate to show.

Men with boobs should wear tshirts when swimming. This is equally true if you are fatass or are going through genital mutilation.