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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

oh god, it was so, so bad. right up until sweet merciful @dethveggie.bsky.social turned it tf off.

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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Viacom case wasn't really forgiveness though. It was vindication- we won it on summary judgement no less!

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

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

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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

can we bring back Fucked Company too?

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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Nothing says "definitely old enough to be drinking" than makeshift krazy straws!

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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

oh wow, I remember this. I don't think I was 21 yet, maybe I hid in @dethveggie.bsky.social's pocket or something.

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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

And also release the hostages, right? Is eliminating Hamas implicit in your wish for safety for Jews? If so, it would be helpful to make that clear, because Hamas is explicitly opposed to that outcome.

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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

I doubt YouTube will take his bait. But seriously, declaring “war” against a service provider should probably get you kicked off that service, riiiight?

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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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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 10/05/2023

I’ve been blocking a bunch of these too. Clearly there’s a lot of rate limiting needed that hasn’t been built yet.

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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

Only just now understanding his handle lol

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

Not to be confused with the BBS for Jewish kids that I got banned from when I was 12, called ALEPHnet

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

I’m going to tell my children this is EFnet

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

Even just a commitment to remove on platform, run of the mill hate speech would be reassuring at this point.

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

Just based on their identity? I don’t doubt that they are anti-Nazi, but I assume there was some behavior or speech that got them banned, right? Perhaps it fell under harassment or rudeness? My point is: have they removed polite Nazi hate speech? I hope they would, but there’s no policy, is there?

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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

"I’ve also seen some people claim (falsely) that Bluesky would refuse to remove Nazis based on this" Are you sure? Have they said this? Just going off the CGs bsky.app/support/community-guidelin… Harassment and slurs are out, but it does seem that hate speech (like nudity) is just labeled?

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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

I managed to find the Community Guidelines (not linked to from anywhere): bsky.app/support/community-guidelin…. Perhaps they overestimate how much the labeling will mitigate harm and absolve them. I guess revenge porn is "harassment" but beheadings are just a bit of icky harmless fun?

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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

I moved everything to ‘warn’ just to see what’s getting labeled, but everyone I follow is so well-behaved 🤷‍♂️

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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 · 02/05/2023

No worries, I didn't mean to put you on blast! Happy to chat offline and connect you with folks. Though there's no shortage of available ex-tweeps who know this stuff as well.

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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

Yes, COPPA is dumb on many levels. Though in fairness, I don’t think they are required to retain age information, they just choose to.

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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

no, the gist is that if you’re trying to block < 13’s, you have to collect age in a neutral way, like prompting for date of birth (with no hints or context). Another option is to not collect age at all, however if you later find out a user is underage, you have to purge all their data.

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Micah Schaffer @micahsch.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

@jay.bsky.team I realize you’re beyond busy right now, but have you checked in with outside counsel lately? It looks like maybe you haven’t registered a DMCA Agent with the Copyright Office yet either. You can get away with a lot at this stage, but you want at least the basics.

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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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