Gersande La FlècheNov 20, 2022

This story with Tracy Chou, an engineer who specifically works on creating tools to stifle organised harassment online, getting posts removed from mastodon.social because of "reverse sexism/racism," is maddeningly infuriating.

We know that Mastodon's flagship instances have been having issues with moderation for a while, but this seems to point that the trend has gone from "ineffective absent moderators" to "moderators protecting the feelings of white men," which I think will backfire. It also validates every criticism the fediverse receives for being a bastion of tepid, neoliberal, unexamined racism-as-reflex whiteness.

Link to Twitter: https://twitter.com/triketora/status/1594348646396559361?s=20&t=CBkHeo8EqdlUfI94EKr-mg

To echo Tracy Chou's bannable offense: I also heavily recommend reading more books by non men, by non white people, and by non cisheterosexual people. What a violent ideology! Tabarnouche. 

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@gersande It's aaargh, less terribad but still not good: https://twitter.com/joinmastodon/status/1594436908154748929?s=20&t=9ekjWwfXY1j6zZ6GZHdVog

...I mean, you still got mods who made that call.

Mastodon on Twitter

“@triketora This post was removed by mistake and we apologize. We’ve recently hired more moderators and the post in question was falsely interpreted to be implying something it was not. (1/2)”

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Show threadDaniel BrotherstonNov 21, 2022
@nikodemus @gersande I dunno. That seems fine. Mistakes are a fact of life. But because it is not so huge then it doesn’t matter and we can correct it. And if it was a common problem this is why it is the fediverse not Mastodon inc.