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[Chuck Norris]

I don't disagree with what they are doing. It's a very libertarian approach, the way they are doing it reflects the idea of open internet. Facebook has such potential to influence, a hands off approach seems the right way to go. Also overly strict guidelines based on the values of a particular company lead or administrator has been the death of many a community, though Facebook would fall into the too big to fail bucket

What needs to happen is better tools for community moderation to occur transparently

 

[Snowybreak]

The nipples are not ok thing is in the Google Adsense rules and regulations. Google will monetise racist YouTube videos and hate speech until someone catches them, but they pay Indian outsourcing companies to systematically search for any slight nudity on sites - including neogaf - and this generates a threat letter that reads like a three strikes thing. If you as a site can't block any nudity efficiently you are cut off from adsense.

So... To trace it back: AdSense is using moderation to remove advertising on sites that have nudity, so that the companies that use the AdSense platform aren't associated with said nudity, because being associated with nudity as a company isn't a good look, because people buying things from said company are a bunch of prudes.

So it's not going to change. Because society would have to change first.

God I hate living in this time period sometimes. Animal abuse and gore and death? Fine. A nipple drawn on a Wacom? Not fine.