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**Dr Pen** @DrPen@mastodon.social · 3d

Baffling to see a woman in a friends FB thread supporting the presence of Tate bros 'Pimping Hoes' podcast on #Spotify in the name of free speech. Describes herself as a 'free speech absolutist'. Just not for those poor country PoC moderators that have to deal with the absolute sh*t pouring into socmed streams every day - see screenshot from Gillespie, 2018 Custodians of the Internet.

https://archive.org/details/Custodians_of_the_Internet_by_Terleton_Gillespie

Screenshot of a page from 'Custodians of the Internet' by T Gillespie. Sample text includes:

"For instance, in its community standards, Facebook asserts, “We don’t tolerate bullying or harassment. We allow you to speak freely on matters and people of public interest, but remove content that appears to purposefully target private individuals with the intention of degrading or shaming them.” And later, “We remove content that threatens or promotes sexual violence or exploitation.”1 But a moderator looking at hundreds of pieces of Facebook content every hour needs more specific instructions on what
exactly counts as “sexual violence,” so these documents provide examples like “To snap a bitch’s neck, make sure to apply all your pressure to the middle of her throat”—which Facebook gives a green checkmark, meaning posts like that should stay. In a time when misogyny, sexual violence, and hatred are so clearly on the rise in our society, it is disheartening, shocking,
that Facebook could be so cavalier about a statement like this. But these documents are rife with examples like it, drawing artificial lines through a culture of misogyny and hatred that deliberately slips between veiled threats and generalized expressions of cruelty, slowly making it somehow acceptable to objectify, intimidate, and exclude women. Still, given ten seconds, some
posts have to go and some have to stay"

#socmed #moderation #misogyny

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