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- Embed this notice@Remi @7666 @alex @Moon @realcaseyrollins Of course it does, but the internet as a whole does. Youtube had videos of topless grade schoolers doing ballet with millions of views and all sorts of woodchipper material commenting on them and they didn't get taken down until there was a public outcry about it. Tumblr had it so bad its payment processors made them remove ALL pornographic material because it was full of teenagers taking "body positive" selfies. Discord has memes about its users for a reason. I think it's unfair to single out the fedi for it, especially when the vast majority of the admins are seemingly constantly having conversations over how to handle it.
But we're talking about Stanford here, and they're there to carry water for the powers that be. During Gamergate, it was found they were knee deep in the "games as social conditioning" push to the point that they had a small department dedicated to studying that. Recently it was found that they were in cahoots with the CDC, putting in reports on social media content that disagreed with the mainstream narrative on behalf of the government since it would be illegal for the CDC itself to do so. They're just as bad as Google, Microsoft, etc. when it comes to wanting to turn the internet into a neutered, centralized mess where you buy and sell Amazon and check your Gmail and post on Facebook and let Paypal handle all of your payments and any potential alternatives are stuck navigating a byzantine set of rules that the big boys don't have to follow, all while the users are stuck having to post opinions that are strictly within the Overton Window or they get their lives turned upside down with deplatforming. Fuck Stanford. I'm disgusted to see them looking at our slice of the internet, but I guess it was inevitable.