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Tony Wong @thevballdude.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Pretty cool starter pack go.bsky.app/3urfrLt

Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 14/07/2023

is it even possible to do content moderation *at scale* without vast financial resources though? yes, you can have healthy self-managed online communities without a lot of money, but probably not a Twitter replacement.

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 23/05/2023

Law enforcement has cracked down on dark web fentanyl for years. But new research found more than 90 Chinese firms selling ingredients to manufacture that deadly opioid on the open web. If those, 90% accepted crypto. www.wired.com/story/fentanyl-ingred…

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Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto

And it's happening in plain sight.

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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 23/05/2023

Etsy surrendered to Alibaba sellers long ago, but it’s still weird to me that they aren’t not aggressive, given that it’s sorta their whole thing. Maybe it’s the equivalent of social platforms addicted to spam and fraud revenue.

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Perspective | Etsy promised shopping with a soul. Then the scammers came.

Dropshipping and knockoffs threaten the whole point of a platform that was supposed to be for artists

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 18/05/2023

A little legal realist/ law & tech inside-baseball thread about what the Gonzalez/Taamneh cases In my opinion, the narrative arc of these cases is more interesting than what was in the cases or the issues presented by the cases themselves. Here's what basically happened: 1/

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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 18/05/2023

The idea behind strikes and warnings is to allow users to correct their behavior. It assumes good faith. Accounts with deliberate and systematic abuse need to just get terminated.

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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 16/05/2023

This was baked into the original policy principles at YouTube (before the growth folks blasted Alex Jones everywhere). Fostering free expression means curtailing chilling effects as well. Or put more simply, “no one wants to post cute cats and babies on the Hitler website.“

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Rabble @rabble.nz · 08/05/2023

I agree, we need to build in to clients defaults to services that help block / ban nazis. We should track those instances and make it, so clients by default use the block lists. Same with why we should have users opt-in to seeing adult content.

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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 06/05/2023

@dethveggie.bsky.social does anyone have a backup of Dem0nseed we can port over?

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

Is there some internet law for how long it takes or how big an online community must become until everyone involved wants to discuss/debate community norms? (Nostalgic feels about the September that never ended…)

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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 29/04/2023

Classic new app vibes. I see Bluesky had opted into the “launch with age gate that isn’t COPPA compliant” rite of passage. Love the energy, looking forward to the remediation.

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