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indigobluerose:
This is the third time in my individual awareness that a major internet organization has censored the entire queer community and then gone “Whoopsie, we didn’t mean to!” immediately after receiving massive blowback about it. Amazon - though that was some time ago - YouTube, and now Tumblr. I’m sure there have been other times I am not aware of.
It’s always the software, oh the software, which of course didn’t program itself and can’t make these decisions like a human would, so it was an accident!
Except, the software didn’t program itself. And somehow this happens repeatedly - it’s not sex, because straight sex slips through the innocent, helpless, totally not inherantly biased software “accidentally”, while non-sexual queer content somehow gets flagged every time.
If these really are “accidents”, I still want to hear these companies acknowledge that they’re happening again and again because of systemic prejudice, and how they’re actually going to work toward fixing that, so that it doesn’t happen again next time and the time after that.
indigobluerose:
This is the third time in my individual awareness that a major internet organization has censored the entire queer community and then gone “Whoopsie, we didn’t mean to!” immediately after receiving massive blowback about it. Amazon - though that was some time ago - YouTube, and now Tumblr. I’m sure there have been other times I am not aware of.
It’s always the software, oh the software, which of course didn’t program itself and can’t make these decisions like a human would, so it was an accident!
Except, the software didn’t program itself. And somehow this happens repeatedly - it’s not sex, because straight sex slips through the innocent, helpless, totally not inherantly biased software “accidentally”, while non-sexual queer content somehow gets flagged every time.
If these really are “accidents”, I still want to hear these companies acknowledge that they’re happening again and again because of systemic prejudice, and how they’re actually going to work toward fixing that, so that it doesn’t happen again next time and the time after that.
