Comment on Resignation of OTW Director

  1. LordiTheRailgun Sat 27 May 2023 04:56PM UTC

    This discussion about "censoring vs moderating + slippery slope argument" reminds me of the whole Tiffany G drama from last year. Where this supposed veteran of the site ran for election as director of the board and wanted to "make the site more palatable" for China since, ostensibly, the Archive is banned there. It caused a massive shitstorm and absolutely no one was on board. Even a petition was made.

    She never specified what exactly she wanted to change but active censorship was inferred. The whole thing was so surreal, it makes me wonder if it was just one big elaborate troll.

    Honestly, talks about censorship and whatnot wouldn't and shouldn't be a hot topic if the OTW just gave the users more power.

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    1. tillwehavefaces Sat 27 May 2023 09:48PM UTC

      I didn't hear about this controversy, but the only reason Chinese users were coming here at all was for the slash I believe (the CCP not being a fan of men bumping uglies even though it's not technically illegal anymore there). So if they censored that out (which would wipe out, what, half the site's content? Certainly every bit of it I've ever contributed lol), they'd be removing the one (or at least the main) appeal for Chinese fangirls in the first place lol

      "Honestly, talks about censorship and whatnot wouldn't and shouldn't be a hot topic if the OTW just gave the users more power."

      Exactly, what we need is subsidiarity in action. All power to the people! Really think decentralisation is the way to go, not just with this, but social media in general (e.g. Mastodon or what Jack is supposed to be trying to do with Blue Sky). And in fact with politics and society in general. People in America already seem to be sorting themselves into states by values. Sadly those of us stuck in unitary regimes don't have that option. Why not extend that everywhere, all the way? Like the clades in Neal's The Diamond Age. Wouldn't that be actual, workable, anarchism in practice? Freedom of association. So much needless conflict comes from forcing incompatible people to coexist. But anyway, I'll get off my soapbox. It shouldn't be *that* hard to have the site filter interface remember your blacklisted tags given someone's already coded a Chrome Extension for it with TamperMonkey...

      Last Edited Sat 27 May 2023 10:04PM UTC

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