⚠️ Important Notice ⚠️
From July 18th indieweb.social will be updating its Community Guidelines.
We want to make indieweb.social a safe place to be, for everyone. To do that, we’ve made the decision to update the indieweb.social Community Guidelines.
This should make it easier for you to report posts and for us to moderate them!
Please boost across indieweb.social and feel free to email indiewebsocial@gmail.com if you have any concerns.
@indiewebadmin Interesting; good luck. Curious as to which definition of "hate speech" is planned to be used.
https://www.un.org/en/hate-speech/united-nations-and-hate-speech/international-human-rights-law
@downey @indiewebadmin this link literally says that "There is no formal definition of “hate speech” in international human rights law." so can you expand on the UN definition more?
The old CoC explicitly outlines several prohibitions, does this mean those are going away?
Hi, the UN define hate speech as “any kind of communication in speech, writing or behaviour, that attacks or uses pejorative or discriminatory language with reference to a person or a group on the basis of who they are, in other words, based on their religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, colour, descent, gender or other identity factor.”
Whilst there isn't a formal definition of hate speech in international law, the UN's definition is the easiest for us to moderate against.
The definition above is from the UN's website at: https://www.un.org/en/hate-speech/understanding-hate-speech/what-is-hate-speech
If you have any other suggested definitions, we'd love to take a look!
The server guidelines will still explicitly prevent targeted misgendering and deadnaming under the 'No Abuse, Harassment or Violence' heading.
Whilst we'd love to define what each term means, we then risk making it harder for users to report posts to our moderation team.
We're trying to find the balance between simplicity and detail, helping reporters and moderators, after lessons learnt from the more complex Newsmast Community Guidelines.
@indiewebadmin @downey first off, thanks for taking the time to engage with this. I understand the risk of defining everything explicitly and why an org might not want to.
I'm just glad to see you the thought process, I really do appreciate you engaging here with me on this.
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