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   Annalee Newitz 🍜 (annaleen@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 05:28:41 JST Annalee Newitz 🍜

   Let me put a phrase into your mind: nonconsensual virality. It's why quote-posts on Twitter led to harassment. People's words stolen, taken out of context, used purely to incite a mob of griefers. The answer is to give #Mastodon users control over whether someone else can quote-post them, with a simple "quote or not" setting that can be set before or after the post goes up. We should be allowed to stop people from taking our posts viral without our consent.

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     Annalee Newitz 🍜 (annaleen@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 05:28:32 JST Annalee Newitz 🍜

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     I've been a journalist for over twenty years -- I've written for venues ranging from tiny zines to the New York Times. And I think users should have control over quote-posts. If a journo wants to report something that they can’t quote-post, I believe that the ten-second friction required to cut-and-paste some text, or to screengrab it, is helpful to the journalistic process. Taking a beat to consider whether we really want to quote something, and how we want to frame it? Literally our job.

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     藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii (taiyo@ostatus.taiyolab.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 10:10:20 JST 藤井太洋, Taiyo Fujii

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     @annaleen thank you, I agree!

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     Annalee Newitz 🍜 (annaleen@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 10:12:01 JST Annalee Newitz 🍜

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     • OnlyBrownMastodon

     @onlybrownmastodon well put. it's a complicated problem, but when in doubt, we should side with the vulnerable. especially when journos have so many tools (screenshots, etc.) to continue investigations unfettered.

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     OnlyBrownMastodon (onlybrownmastodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 10:12:06 JST OnlyBrownMastodon

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     @annaleen It may be useful (if surprising at first) to consider that the tools of investigative journalism are essentially the same as those used by stalkers and harassers.

     Key question for Mastodon, and any social network claiming to be anti-bigotry: "whose safety and ease of use do we choose to prioritise"?

     Journalists? Or the desire of marginalised people not to be tracked, surveilled, indexed, bundled, and perhaps sold (or stalked/harassed/threatened en masse, often using automated tools)?

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