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RE: Porn on Steemit - How I Am Approaching It
You will not be able to stop PORN from being on this platform. The idea is that there is no censorship here. However, it should NOT be visible in the thumbnail and it should be labeled as NSFW. This doesn't just go for porn, but extreme violence and anything you'd potentially get fired for if it came up on your screen at work needs to be flagged NSFW. If it isn't then it should be flagged.
As far as censoring that stuff. The only way that is going to happen is for someone to build another website viewing the same block chain and perhaps making all NSFW stuff invisible. That is doable. Steemit.com is simply a window into the blockchain, so I fully expect to see more "windows".
Maybe I'm wrong, @dwinblood, and I really respect your views, so please help me better understand flagging. If I flag something, I am making it less visible on Steemit, but the content is still on the blockchain. I did not touch the content at all. How is that censorship?
Until other windows to this stuff open up, this seems completely logical from my view, as Steemit has a diverse array of users, even kids as you pointed out, and as far as I can tell, if you have porn available on your site to kids under 18, you're going to have some legal issues. As I've been saying, I'm more than happy to change my approach to this, so let me know where I'm missing a step. Thanks!
When tagged as NSFW, posts will by design not show up in any of the feeds. One would have to explicitly go into the NSFW tag to see such posts. So it's not necessary to flag them if they are tagged properly.
Oh wow, I'm sorry, I missed the boat on that one. I should have known better that the guys would already be on this. Thanks for pointing this out!
Thanks @derekareith I respect you as well, @damiancraymond whom I also respect has mentioned you numerous times in our various exchanges. I wasn't ignoring you, simply was asleep. :)
Damian's the man! When we started talking about anarchism for the first time, his eyes lit up and I could tell right away he was getting what I was saying. That's just so rare when bringing it up with most people. He ran with it on his own from there and I am thankful for the great conversations we have both in real life and on the site.
Yeah the word Anarchy is another one of those politically high jacked and conditioned words to mean chaos to most people. Once people realize what it truly means, and they think about it, it is a big AH HA type moment. "Why are we not doing that?"
Answer: "Some people think they should have the right to control other people, and they tend to currently have risen to prominent positions in the governments that do exist. They would resist this idea ever being attempted."
It is this same mentality that is really the single thing Anarchistic systems would have to keep a watch for, because some people get off on controlling, manipulating, and bullying other people.