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"Over the last few years, we've seen more and more focus on using content
moderation efforts to stamp out anything even remotely upsetting to certain
loud interest groups. In particular, we've seen NCOSE, formerly "Morality in
Media," spending the past few years whipping up a frenzy about "pornography"
online. They were one of the key campaigners for FOSTA, which they flat out
admitted was step one in their plan to ban all pornography online. Recently,
we've discussed how MasterCard had put in place ridiculous new rules that were
making life difficult for tons of websites. Some of the websites noted that
Mastercard told them it was taking direction from... NCOSE. Perhaps not
surprisingly, just recently, NCOSE gave MasterCard its "Corporate Leadership
Award" and praised the company for cracking down on pornography (which NCOSE
considers the same as sex trafficking or child sexual abuse).
Of course, all of this has some real world impact. We've talked about how eBay,
pressured to remove such content because of FOSTA and its payment processors,
has been erasing LGBTQ history (something, it seems, NCOSE is happy about).
And, of course, just recently, OnlyFans came close to prohibiting all sexually
explicit material following threats from its financial partners — only to
eventually work out a deal to make sure it could continue hosting adult
content.
But all of this online prudishness has other consequences. Scott Nover, over at
Quartz, has an amazing story about how museums in Vienna are finding that
images of classic paintings are being removed from all over the internet.
Though, they've come up with a somewhat creative (and surprising) solution: the
museums are setting up OnlyFans accounts, since the company is one of the
remaining few which is able to post nude images without running afoul of
content moderation rules. Incredibly, the effort is being run by Vienna's
Tourist Board."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
