I think that there should be some leeway for people with other cultural norm than the puritan Anglo-Saxon and Spanish. I am Scandinavian like you and have a hard time sending completely innocent stuff into the evil fray of NSFW-anal-pornland because of a single nipple placed on the wrong body. Free speech is about giving some room - especially in a globalised world. But if you only let the most offended set up the rules we might just as well pay a coalition of radical-feminist, ISIS and US-conservative consultants to set up the censoring :)
I am all for Free Speech, I am also for the individuals right to chose what they want to focus on/listen to/watch or read without distractions from what they want to avoid.
The majority of the world we live in is religious, about 17% of the world population are non-religious.
If we are going to make Steemit a global brand for everyone in the world - we have a duty to make Steemit.com (the official steem-site) to be as family-friendly as possible when they enter into our platform.
We have heard other suggestions like "SubSteem" (please find a better name) that @mughat is constantly promoting on SteemSpeak 24/7 Talk-Radio which also is an interesting idea which we should think about and draft up sooner or later to find a good implementation if the community wants that.
In the current EULA you have to be 13 years old to join Steemit.com
Which makes steemit.com owned by Steemit Inc in the USA compliant to censor 18+ content from their website which is why the NSFW tag has an effect, if people use it. So to make steemit.com 100% compliant with the laws, we need a section where you have to confirm you are 18+ to enter, or turn "Safe Mode On/Off" like http://liveleak.com has.
I am all for practical solutions :) Right now Steemit is small and not at all representative of the global population. (And religious does not necessarily mean puritan by the way). The current system to handle NSFW-Bad narighboorhood-adult content is to tag it #nsfw. If this is done as the first tag, the post is hidden - but you can easily see it with a press of the button. So a system already exist, it just doesn't not give complete security for minors and parent who want to control what they see. (it is hard to unsee graphic pornography).
On the other hand you also have to serve the crowd that is actually here, and if you could look at the demographic I believe that you would see a strong liberal/libertarian majority from a rather diverse geographical origin. What I propose is a way to refine the system making it have a hard border to for example hard-core porn , and a softer border that actually just use the existing system. I simply think it would be bad if content that was not sexual in nature had to be on a completely other page. A #nsfw-tag should be enough for this:
I am also on the Diaspora social network and have been for more than 3 years, and even though it's user might be more to the left than users here (or actually more European than American) it does have many similarities to Steemit, and the #nsfw-tag combined with a blocking feature does work well... except for hardcore pornography. The thing you write about US law just support this.
If Steemit is ever big enough there will have to be taken special measures, just like Facebook and the rest does. Censoring Chinese political opinions etc. :(
I think that there should be some leeway for people with other cultural norm than the puritan Anglo-Saxon and Spanish. I am Scandinavian like you and have a hard time sending completely innocent stuff into the evil fray of NSFW-anal-pornland because of a single nipple placed on the wrong body. Free speech is about giving some room - especially in a globalised world. But if you only let the most offended set up the rules we might just as well pay a coalition of radical-feminist, ISIS and US-conservative consultants to set up the censoring :)
I am all for Free Speech, I am also for the individuals right to chose what they want to focus on/listen to/watch or read without distractions from what they want to avoid.
The majority of the world we live in is religious, about 17% of the world population are non-religious.
If we are going to make Steemit a global brand for everyone in the world - we have a duty to make Steemit.com (the official steem-site) to be as family-friendly as possible when they enter into our platform.
We have heard other suggestions like "SubSteem" (please find a better name) that @mughat is constantly promoting on SteemSpeak 24/7 Talk-Radio which also is an interesting idea which we should think about and draft up sooner or later to find a good implementation if the community wants that.
In the current EULA you have to be 13 years old to join Steemit.com
Which makes steemit.com owned by Steemit Inc in the USA compliant to censor 18+ content from their website which is why the NSFW tag has an effect, if people use it. So to make steemit.com 100% compliant with the laws, we need a section where you have to confirm you are 18+ to enter, or turn "Safe Mode On/Off" like http://liveleak.com has.
Solutions, Solutions, Solutions, Solutions, Solutions, Solutions :D
That's my man. Well said.
I am all for practical solutions :) Right now Steemit is small and not at all representative of the global population. (And religious does not necessarily mean puritan by the way). The current system to handle NSFW-Bad narighboorhood-adult content is to tag it #nsfw. If this is done as the first tag, the post is hidden - but you can easily see it with a press of the button. So a system already exist, it just doesn't not give complete security for minors and parent who want to control what they see. (it is hard to unsee graphic pornography).
On the other hand you also have to serve the crowd that is actually here, and if you could look at the demographic I believe that you would see a strong liberal/libertarian majority from a rather diverse geographical origin. What I propose is a way to refine the system making it have a hard border to for example hard-core porn , and a softer border that actually just use the existing system. I simply think it would be bad if content that was not sexual in nature had to be on a completely other page. A #nsfw-tag should be enough for this:
I am also on the Diaspora social network and have been for more than 3 years, and even though it's user might be more to the left than users here (or actually more European than American) it does have many similarities to Steemit, and the #nsfw-tag combined with a blocking feature does work well... except for hardcore pornography. The thing you write about US law just support this.
If Steemit is ever big enough there will have to be taken special measures, just like Facebook and the rest does. Censoring Chinese political opinions etc. :(
That requires nsfw?
Looks like something that could go on the wall of an office...