You Can't Say That On the Internet 432
hessian writes in with a story about the arbitrary and often outdated online decency standards being imposed by companies."A bastion of openness and counterculture, Silicon Valley imagines itself as the un-Chick-fil-A. But its hyper-tolerant facade often masks deeply conservative, outdated norms that digital culture discreetly imposes on billions of technology users worldwide. What is the vehicle for this new prudishness? Dour, one-dimensional algorithms, the mathematical constructs that automatically determine the limits of what is culturally acceptable. Consider just a few recent kerfuffles. In early September, The New Yorker found its Facebook page blocked for violating the site’s nudity and sex standards. Its offense: a cartoon of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Eve’s bared nipples failed Facebook’s decency test."
Re:filters (Score:5, Funny)
Eve's bared nipples (Score:2, Funny)
Here's all I wanted to see: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonists/stevens-cartoon%201.jpg
Re:Interesting (Score:5, Funny)
That's because digital wang comes along free with most searches. It is like the parsley of Internet search results.
Who orders parsley?
Re:Sounds like a campus speech code (Score:5, Funny)
The "un-Chick-fil-A" (Score:5, Funny)
But no, really - I see what's going on here. "We're tolerant of everything - unless it's something we don't find culturally acceptable." Yep, that passes liberal scrutiny.
Re:Interesting (Score:5, Funny)
That's because digital wang comes along free with most searches. It is like the parsley of Internet search results.
Who orders parsley?
For more conjectures on the Parsley/Wang metaphor please ask Parsley Wang [facebook.com].
don't really or she'll be justifiably pissed at Slashdot
"Water" and "I don't know" (Score:4, Funny)
Those are the things you can't say. Not without getting soaked, anyway.
Re:Sounds like a campus speech code (Score:2, Funny)
Thank you
Re:Sounds like a campus speech code (Score:4, Funny)
Just wait a few hours, then read the comments to see just how easy it is to offend a christian.
Re:Sounds like a campus speech code (Score:5, Funny)
git commit -am 'New feature: love thy neighbor. This should permanently fix WorldView.pl bug where eye_for_an_eye function was causing deadlock.'