So I’ve gone from the girls who’s personality is comprised of life experiences and the rave to the girl who can mostly only talk about covid 19 and tik tok. Since I don’t talk to humans anymore that is my social life. My FYP is my frame of reference… if you are confused LMK tho I prob am too
Clearly, Internet censorship is something I have cared about for a while and this year has opened my eyes to oppression on every level. Last night, on tik tok, when I was ABOUT TO GO TO BED, I saw this video.
Let me preface this with the fact that – for accessibility reasons, people have been asking for CC technology from the Tik Tok, as the captioning built in is really hard to get exact and very time consuming… The apps that have this capability are not free, and you have to record outside the app (so any editing is cancelled out). IG just launched a new App called threads (in the US) that will CC for you.
It’s default settings censor curse words. You can change it, and quite frankly as I don’t really understand their policies, (or really what triggers whatever report bot to go off…) I love it. Like F*CK I wish I had something doing that before I said anything dumb IRL. (Me creating a false reality that everyone has ADHD and gets that sometimes I combine 20 thoughts into one sentence that says something really diff…bc my thoughts are a bouncy ball and apparently thats not normal)
Im not sure at what point ill get over losing my art account, bc there was so much on there (memories, stories, actual art, that I have no other documentation of. BUT the worst part is I truly did not break the rules. As much as I do know that its not the end of the world, every time I go online its a reminder. Ive gotten so many SW accounts back and I know how hard it is.I am probably the only Person who watched the sec 230 stream. (ALSO HUGE NEWS WITH FCC TODAY BUT DOES NOT MATTER BC GA!!!)
IDK what the issue is with mine. The thing that I miss the most is the community though. I got 10 DPss in my DM’s this week. I got zero on the old page. My old page was a community of sex positive people. I know the growth can never be the same (1, its not as novel, every post had over 5000 shares, but this is art that people have seen before. 2) on its own the IG algorithm has changed & so for a page marked “explicit,” its alot harder to find …I will try and stop talking about it soon..(Last cry for help!).. but this all factors into the below
I digress…
IG community guidelines:
We understand that nudity can be shared for a variety of reasons, including as a form of protest, to raise awareness about a cause, or for educational or medical reasons. Where such intent is clear, we make allowances for the content. For example, while we restrict some images of female breasts that include the nipple, we allow other images, including those depicting acts of protest, women actively engaged in breast-feeding, and photos of post-mastectomy scarring. For images depicting visible genitalia or the anus in the context of birth and after-birth moments or health-related situations we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive. We also allow photographs of paintings, sculptures, and other art that depicts nude figures.
SO BACK TO THREADS. You cannot say PEN15 or V*GINA (once again you can change this). You can say dick (a name). You can’t even say pussy cat (I actually think this is a good thing because if they started to use context clues that would be a whole other deeper level of censorship where a robot is trying to interpret your message – when you start making blanket rules – and its AI making the final calls, there are always going to be groups who shouldn’t even be effected who suffer the consequences) IN ALL HONESTY MAKING THE PLATFORMS ACCOUNTABLE IS A COP OUT. INSTEAD OF TEACHING, TALKING, UNDERSTANDING each other, we just have to make it someone else’s fault… god I hate humanity… jk
So with s*xual content… the issue is that we are trying to protect those too young from content that may not be appropriate.
How old were you when you were taught that “boys have penis’s girls have vagina’s?”
(I know that this is more complex, and I hope the convo is different now, but simply this is what I was taught when I was growing up). According to google, my memories, and me asking the few people I know with children, most children learn these words in preschool. Community guidelines are meant to protect (children) from being exposed to material that is not age appropriate.
The words penis and vagina are recognized by anyone virtually anyone old enough to figure out social media… but not always old enough to understand the message, or to learn about the message. I agree that this is important. The blanket exception to the rule is to keep “explicit/ sexual” content educational (While I love WAP and think that song is a lesson in itself), most educational posts do not need to use the word pussy. And ultimately, there is probably more harmful posts using the word pussy, than calling someone a dick (bc really are we lying?).
The issue with this – is one that I want to cover more extensively, but it falls on the lack of standardization in sex education.(I live in America and I know this is worldwide but – I for all purposes of the moment my statements are pertaining to the USA… I also think our education system as a whole is another thing to add to the list of things we need to abolish 2020)
The average age where girls get their period in America is 12, though the range is 10-15.
So what about the kids who’s parents opt out? What about the kids who are taught assistance is the only way but pop culture says otherwise, or they have been abused. What about the kids who literally just don’t learn (too much for one post and something I want to expand upon – covered cuties on my old page for those of you who were there …)
In 2020 you cannot shield the majority from info (covid restrictions & those with out access to Internet rn ofc – but hopefully that is temporary)
But – its very easy to get internet access in public places. So what do you do when you don’t know what to search for? If you don’t have medically accurate knowledge, or even a basis of the proper words to search… Im not sure how personalized google is but simply typing sex… goes from WebMD to things that have no scientific background real quick. When a page gets flagged for having sexual content, it often times becomes shadowbanned. (I will cover section 230 and I have made a few vids on tik tok – but alot of this is because when liability is put on the platforms, even the biggest don’t have the means to double check everything. Its why plus sized, clothed models get deleted because it sees too much skin, its why adult stars, who promote legal work that has age verification on another hosted site, get their links get deleted – if we repeal it further – I fear things will get worse)
“Shadow bans” are what happen when your page has been deemed one that may have controversial content.
When I sent out the link to my new IG – I had it marked 18+ everyone who clicked it got errors….even though they were over the age of 18. I have friends who are verified creators, who I follow and when I type their names in on twitter, I cant find them. I can however find many impersonation sites – with little content but enough to make it look official – its common for these pages to scam fans… The amount of extra work for anyone making “mature” content, or looking for it… is not only harmful in the age of information & truth… but also just so draining. Trying to keep up with changing rules on each platform… I am SOOO behind on where I want to be on this page bc I have to spend so much time editing for diff platforms (that have zero discover power LOL) – ONLYFANS will be updated by the end of the week… I have found MOST of my OG posts…
An unfortunate consequence of creating my Ig in oct when hashtags were shadowbanned, and though I hardly use them, and still the pages im grouped with and the DM’s I get are very diff. And I abide by policies but by not having my page as 18+ (because I literally have videos of people well over that age unable to follow it, I know that I am not 1000% protecting myself. While I do not even talk about activity… Obviously an art page is not as important as being able to find accurate information… and this is where we go back to “educational content”. It should be available to those under 18, in my opinion. But who gets to decide this? And now that I have briefly touched upon everything this one 15 second video inspired and probably said something improperly bc all of these things are so much deeper than I have the time or energy for ATM but I did want to get this out there
My experiment:
You can say clitoris.
You can say anus
For Labia I got mixed results. Censored a few times – oftentimes interpreted as Libya… and yes I even played google voice dictionary…
Unclear if it does not know the word and theres a word similar to labia that I am unaware of?
THAT one bothers me – The Labia gallery does a great job of explaining and hi-lighting the harm of people not knowing the anatomy past the word vagina – and specifically knowledge of labias. SO if we were censoring vagina, but allowing for parts for education… why are we censoring out a part that lack of education causes harm?
You can say balls
You can say testes
You can say any anatomical part of the male reproductive system
TLDR: I think censoring penis, vagina, and pussy is okay. BUT by censoring Labia… I do not like the direction this is headed….
COMING NEXT IS THIS…….
BC I Thought I was giving info and realized that was the wrong question
ONLY 9 STATES MANDATE UNDERSTANDING CONSENT. IT Explains everything about this pandemic. literally everything
(and there is so much and really good articles I have come across from people with HIV and their thoughts)
thanks for reading my rambling, also TY for supporting all my platforms, clearly, I am paranoid ATM, and want to get my message out there / build list serves of good people while I can.
