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My friend in Germany told me their new law would make social media delete posts faster, and now I see it happening with art.
He said the NetzDG law would lead to over-blocking, and just last week an artist I follow had her political cartoon about a local election removed from a big platform for 'hate speech' when it clearly wasn't, which makes me wonder what other types of content are getting caught in these automated filters?
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perry.nancy6d ago
Automated filters are about as smart as a toaster with a grudge. They see a political cartoon and just panic, deleting anything that might make their legal team twitch. Guess we're all supposed to just post pictures of our lunch now.
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the_jason6d ago
Post pictures of our lunch" is exactly where we're headed. I got a meme taken down last week for "sensitive content" when it was just a guy looking confused at his phone. My fix was to just post the image in a reply to my own text post, filters seem to miss those more often.
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