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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One mod from one server did this (by mistake?), but the post accuses the whole Federation ("Mastodon").
Right-wing racists now share this post as "proof that we are all like that and whole Mastodon supposedly suppress freedom of speech. Posts like this do little for our fight against racism, instead it's a justification for Twitter's weird acceptance of hate speech and
supports the right-wingers' arguments!
Nov 20, 2022 at 11:06pmWeb
Show threadGersande La FlècheNov 20, 2022
@089chris @ritamitsuko @mimrma Like it or not Eugen has made his flagship instances in many ways the biggest and most prominent members of the fediverse. Their culture and their mistakes set the tone for the fediverse at large. People of colour, women, queers, trans people, disabled people, and Indigenous people have been having conversations about the Fediverse's more casual -isms, intolerances and diversity problems since 2017, but our conversations are told to stop because we could make Mastodon and the Fediverse look bad. And, at the end of the day, I don't care if sharing .social's mistakes makes Mastodon or the Fediverse looks bad. My priorities are elsewhere.
Show thread089chrisNov 20, 2022

@gersande @ritamitsuko @mimrma

No one asked people to stop, and to look bad isn't the problem. Just name the right person/server next time.

Show threadRobin ShiptonNov 21, 2022
@gersande @ritamitsuko @mimrma @089chris I think you might have read the post too fast? They do name the specific server.