Cliff 🦖 Pervocracy

every time I see someone type "seggs" it kills me a little bit

(and a little more when they do it in places they don't have to, but I don't really blame them, they're used to rules that are opaque until it's too late)

the other day I saw someone on Instagram sharing serious, helpful information about eating disorders except she called them 3ating d1s0rders the whole time and what are we doing here, people

Aw heck, I'm going to need to back up some things...

Annoyingly the only explicit content I have on Docs that's shared with others is material I believe qualifies as sex education, and thus allowed under the policy... assuming that I ever got the chance to explain this to a human, which lol lmao rofl etc.

Every site that does this shit writes in a little exception for "redeeming social value" and it's always bullshit. In at least four ways:

1. The sexual fulfillment of consenting adults is never considered social value in itself.
2. So, okay, what is socially valuable? The answer is: Michelangelo's David. That is the only socially redeeming penis ever created in all of human history. Not even Michelangelo's other nudes get a pass. Only David.
3. The algorithm detected a penis in your image of Michelangelo's David and it was auto-deleted. Whoopsie! Click here to send an appeal to a moderator who may or may not not be a human, who will respond with either a denial in 5 seconds or an exemption sometime in the next 3 years.
4. The algorithm detected a penis in your image of a sunset. Click here to report a broken "appeal to moderator" link.

PSA: If you've got Google content at risk, the tool to mass-download your content is called Takeout (real link).

Come May 15, 2023, Imgur will be deleting all sexually explicit content, along with old images that were uploaded by users who were not signed in.

We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content. You will need to download/save any images that you wish to save if they no longer adhere to these Terms. Most notably, this would include explicit/pornographic content.

aaaaaaa I fucking hate the Tumblrization of the Internet so much

I was going to do some grandiose rant about "and this isn't about wanting to see meaty cocks, it's about freedom and slippery slopes and Internet history and health education and whatever" but you know what, seeing meaty cocks is a public good in its own right god dammit. if the meaty cock's owner consents and so do I, that is a legitimate part of the free exchange of information

which we were never really promised, but we should have been because it advances human flourishing a hell of a lot more than the MasterCard terms of service do