Technology @lemmy.world True @lemy.lol 3 days ago

Indigenous creators are clashing with YouTube’s and Instagram’s sensitive content bans.

restofworld.org Indigenous creators are clashing with YouTube’s and Instagram’s sensitive content bans

Deep in the heartlands of Brazil, Indigenous creators are having to censor themselves to avoid getting banned on social platforms.

Technology @beehaw.org alyaza [they/she] @beehaw.org 1 day ago

Indigenous creators are clashing with YouTube’s and Instagram’s sensitive content bans

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Oh no! Not the nipple of the wrong gender!
- Legend has it that some people spend their entire work day trying to determine if a nipple is a boy nipple or a girl nipple. Could you fucking imagine?
  
  I heard about people photoshopping male ripples onto female breasts
Anglos can't help sexualizing nudity.
- ✅ Accurate ✅ Concise ✅ Relevant
  
  Checks all the boxes for a top tier response here. Cheers.
- Well said.
  
  I was just starting a long text explaining the same ;-)
- Perversion requires some level of sexual oppression in order to exist. Won't somebody please think of the perverts?!
Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right. Fuck the censors.

Edit: this pithy response doesn’t reflect my full understanding of the related nuances here, though it does sum up my feelings on this particular example. See below for further discussion.
- Again remember that freedom of expression is freedom to not be punished by the government for that expression.
  
  Private companies are not concerned with your freedoms.
  
  Not saying I agree with how things are, just saying how it is. Only way to tell a private company to fuck off is to not use them.
  
  I’m not talking about the US constitution here. I’m saying it is a fundamental human right regardless of the law. What clothing to wear (or not) is part of that freedom.
  
  Private companies should also not restrict fundamental freedoms. I’m aware they’re allowed to currently.
- Participation in any community demands some level of censorship or else there would literally be CP on youtube. The problem is that the decision making behind the administration of censorship should be better democratized instead of being decided by advertiser's attempting to divine the median consumer's level of tolerance.
  
  I agree, I was overly broad with this comment. But I think that even community management needs to be constrained from interfering with human expression when there is no harm being done. And non-sexual nudity is clearly not harmful.
Platforms exist in a cultural context. When cultures mesh, the platform has to

Pick a culture, or take the superset of norms of all cultures and the most permissive set, or most restrict set.

The big platforms like money and don't like controversy so they take they decide to pick the culture with the most money.
- okay so they should just get on the fediverse
  
  That would be nice!
  
  Correct.
Another reason to not use big media, but to use the fediverse instead.
- Big media = big reach, compromises made. Fediverse = tiny reach, fewer compromises made. I can see why Indigenous folks choose the former over the latter.
Welcome true, hope you enjoy your stay!
- This is actually my second account :)
  
  I deleted my first account after hearing about lemmy privacy issues and then I recreated my account to start fresh.
  
  I am using every reddit alternative I know currently, hopefully one of them go mainstream.
  
  Lemmy's in a pretty good place these days, if there's any hangup to more adoption it's the hurdle of understanding federation as a concept and the big time sink of building your subscription list at the beginning. As much as I hated Reddit's default list of subs I kinda think Lemmy could use something similar to help onboard new users more effectively.
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