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aenopix ◴[] No.42160042[source]
heavily censored
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insane_dreamer ◴[] No.42160080[source]
evidence?
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1. blackeyeblitzar ◴[] No.42160981[source]
I can’t find it now, but in one of the other HN threads, someone had shared a link to some lawyer defending women’s rights for sex-segregated things (like who gets to play in women’s sports). That profile had a label of “Intolerant” at the top, and nearly every post of theirs also had that same word “Intolerant” in a box in the body of each post, in place of the actual content that would be there. A little informational message indicated these labels were applied by an automated system. You would have to click the button to uncensor and view the message anyways, but it makes it much harder to consume their feed since you have to do that for each individual post, every single time you view the page. Someone else pointed out that you can opt out of the default moderation/censorship scheme that applies this labeling but the fact that it is on by default is problematic in terms of offering a politically neutral platform, since that is what most people will get.