# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
#
# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
#
# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
#
# twt range = 1 21
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/qaona2a
@prologic unless you intend to become a nation-state, you can't really censor?
If you're worried about moderators silencing people then yes, yes they should have that power. And the community values should be very clear about where the lines are and how to deal with moderators who cross them.
@abucci Of course you can censor people without being a nation-state. It's just a question of power. If @prologic decided he didn't like what I have to say, he could add a line to the code of yarnd that automatically hides posts on all pods if it came from me. Would that not be censorship?
@mckinley this is a perversion of the word. A censor is an official acting on behalf of a powerful institution. I like @prologic a bunch but he's not that.
I mean come on. It doesn't help anyone to purposely blur the line between "censorship" and "content moderation". For as long as I've been using the internet there have been people posting all sorts of horrible stuff and then crying" censorship!" when it's deleted or fd. s
I mean come on. It doesn't help anyone to purposely blur the line between "censorship" and "content moderation". For as long as I've been using the internet there have been people posting all sorts of horrible stuff and then crying "censorship!" when it's deleted or even modified. Giving in to that kind of rhetoric helps no one, any more than claiming you're owed "free speech" online because of the 1st amendment of the US constitution, which only covers official government suppression of your speech, not content moderation does. Folks like that just want the "right" to post whatever horrible shit that comes into their head, without restriction. Go join 4chan if that's what you want.
Calling out content moderators for abusive behavior is important, naturally. But that's not censorship, it's bog standard abuse of power. Words mean stuff etc.
I mean come on. It doesn't help anyone to purposely blur the line between "censorship" and "content moderation". For as long as I've been using the internet there have been people posting all sorts of horrible stuff and then crying "censorship!" when it's deleted or even modified. Giving in to that kind of rhetoric helps no one, any more than giving in to claims that one is owed "free speech" online because of the 1st amendment of the US constitution, which only covers official government suppression of your speech, not content moderation does. Folks like that just want the "right" to post whatever horrible shit that comes into their head, without restriction. Go join 4chan if that's what you want.
Calling out content moderators for abusive behavior is important, naturally. But that's not censorship, it's bog standard abuse of power. Words mean stuff etc.
I mean come on. It doesn't help anyone to purposely blur the line between "censorship" and "content moderation". For as long as I've been using the internet there have been people posting all sorts of horrible stuff and then crying" censorship!" when it's deleted or even modified. Giving in to that kind of rhetoric helps no one, any more than claiming you're owed "free speech" online because of the 1st amendment of the US constitution, which only covers official government suppression of your speech, not content moderation does.
Calling out content moderators for abusive behavior is important, naturally. But that's not censorship, it's bog standard abuse of power. Words mean stuff etc.
@abucci I _think_ we so easily misuse these terms and so much of the Internet and even social media (which isn't particularly a new thing btw, Facebook™ didn't invent it 🤦♂️) has become full of "noise", "mistrust" and outright "garbage". We have to use terminology a bit more precisely 😅 -- You should see the shit that flies past my pod (just go checkout the Discover timeline at some random points throughout the week or day 🤣) -- I don't care 😅 I don't have to follow things I don't want to 😆 -- But violate the abuse policy, that's a different story 🤯
@abucci I _think_ we so easily misuse these terms and so much of the Internet and even social media (which isn't particularly a new thing btw, Facebook™ didn't invent it 🤦♂️) has become full of "noise", "mistrust" and outright "garbage". We have to use terminology a bit more precisely 😅 -- You should see the shit that flies past my pod (just go checkout the Discover timeline at some random points throughout the week or day 🤣) -- I don't care 😅 I don't have to follow things I don't want to 😆 -- But violate the abuse policy, that's a different story 🤯
@abucci I _think_ we so easily misuse these terms and so much of the Internet and even social media (which isn't particularly a new thing btw, Facebook™ didn't invent it 🤦♂️) has become full of "noise", "mistrust" and outright "garbage". We have to use terminology a bit more precisely 😅 -- You should see the shit that flies past my pod (just go checkout the Discover timeline at some random points throughout the week or day 🤣) -- I don't care 😅 I don't have to follow things I don't want to 😆 -- But violate the abuse policy, that's a different story 🤯
@abucci I _think_ we so easily misuse these terms and so much of the Internet and even social media (which isn't particularly a new thing btw, Facebook™ didn't invent it 🤦♂️) has become full of "noise", "mistrust" and outright "garbage". We have to use terminology a bit more precisely 😅 -- You should see the shit that flies past my pod (just go checkout the Discover timeline at some random points throughout the week or day 🤣) -- I don't care 😅 I don't have to follow things I don't want to 😆 -- But violate the abuse policy, that's a different story 🤯
@abucci I disagree. I think the "modern" definition of the word has a place here. An individual exercising his power over you on a platform to suppress you, not because you've violated any sort of rule, but because he doesn't like what you say, is at least an attempt at censorship. What would you call that?
If there was a rule that you've broken, then it's content moderation. A separate discussion can be had over whether or not that rule is just.
Fortunately, twtxt is very difficult to suppress completely. As long as I can still put a text file somewhere for people to download, I can still post.
@mckinley nah, you tell me: what word do you use to distinguish being silenced by some random person on an internet service who has no other power over you, versus being silenced by an entity that can send men with guns to your home with the authority to put you in a cage?
Because those are very obviously different, and merit different words to describe. One is an inconvenience, while the other rises to the level of threatening your liberty for years.
You really use the same word for those two phenomena?
Yhe germ "assholary" comes to mind for the former 😆
Yhe germ "assholary" comes to mind for the former 😆
Yhe germ "assholary" comes to mind for the former 😆
Yhe germ "assholary" comes to mind for the former 😆