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not safe for work – Dropsafe
2025-07
Attached is an article re: the inability to read “important and not harmful or porn” (IANHOP?) content on Twitter, Reddit, etc.
Critics should know that civil society generally doesn’t want platforms to be making fine-grained moral decisions re: the nature of content, and neither do the platforms want this role. It leads to badness.
Apart from any reason: if platforms essentially have to become publishers and must police and be responsible for the meaning and intention of what people write, they will just stop permitting content altogether.
It will be the end of the mass platform, and instead everybody will have to have their own; doubtless some fediverse people will think this sounds fantastic, but it is way more complicated than that and will disenfranchise many people.
Platforms should be permitted to label a forum as being NSFW; they should not have to label individual content beyond that, and leaving such decisions in the hands of the users is an excessive business risk.
Age verification is the problem. It is the blunt instrument. It is the imposition upon free speech, not that Reddit restricts itself to a simplistic label of NSFW for content, users, and even entire forums.
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https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/68340/1/britain-uk-new-online-safety-laws-are-already-disaster-internet-censorship
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