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RE: Porn on Steemit - How I Am Approaching It
@derekareith and @fubar-bdhr : Making content less visible is a form of censorship imho - albeit a weaker form. We could call it "soft censorship".
When Google is criticised for the order in which results for some contentious search term are shown they are routinely accused of (soft) censorship, and rightly so, since results on the first page are viewed orders of magnitude more frequently than those on, say, the 50th page.
We can also think about the issue in terms of accessing vs. finding. Soft censorship might not prevent people from accessing content, but it prevents them from easily finding it.
Hey @pussycat. I updated my perspective on the issue with my next post here:
https://steemit.com/mybad/@derekareith/porn-on-steemit-my-updated-view
I believe soft censorship is done through curating on this platform. They gave us flags to help soft censor content detrimental to the platform. With my updated view post, I hope you see how I am just trying to be transparent about how I flag content that I find detrimental. I am doing this so that discussions like this can open up and I can fine tune my approach, in the best interest of the platform.
Now that is an interesting point: curating = soft censorship
I had not looked at it that way but you are absolutely right.
The logical conclusion is that, where there is abundance of content, (soft) censorship is inevitable ...