{"id":2516,"date":"2019-07-31T21:36:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T21:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2019-07-31T21:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T21:36:16","slug":"inappropriate-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/31\/inappropriate-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Inappropriate content"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A while back, I moved my origami projects from my own personal site to Tumblr &#8211; figuring this would be a good platform to host my artwork and would save me some time in formatting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tumblr site is a bit like a blog, but very focused on photos.\u00a0 A site owner can post their own content &#8211; as I do &#8211; or they can repost other people\u2019s content.\u00a0 Over time, this can lead to sort of \u201ccurated\u201d sites focusing on a topic.  It might be cute pictures of dogs, architecture, classical art, politics, knitting &#8211; anything, really.\u00a0 Those reposts connect sites and you could find many different sites that related to whatever topic or interest you had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And because anything goes, some sites focused on adult content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which, of course, I know <strong>nothing<\/strong> about.\u00a0 <em>Ahem<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tumblr got bought out and the new owners decided that this platform would no longer host adult content.\u00a0 How they defined that has been widely reviled as sexist, racist, and generally bad for the LGBTQ community.\u00a0 You can look up \u201cfemale presenting nipples tumblr\u201d to see some of that critique of the new rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I figured that, with a site full of original paper artwork, this would pretty much pass me by.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t like the rule change, but what\u2019s inappropriate about origami?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out the automated process that flags these posts didn\u2019t like one of mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here it is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-tumblr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"tumblr-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/embed.tumblr.com\/embed\/post\/t:kOEsfJ4drygRAxm8da1sAQ\/159235557419\/v2\" data-did=\"c002643e47bafaf5fe123bf0a22bf62e50a2987a\"  ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/thunderofwade\/159235557419\/collaboration-origami-butterflies-from-book\">https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/thunderofwade\/159235557419\/collaboration-origami-butterflies-from-book<\/a><\/div><script async src=\"https:\/\/assets.tumblr.com\/post.js?_v=38df9a6ca7436e6ca1b851b0543b9f51\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had signed in to show someone a project I had posted and got a note that this post had been flagged as having adult content and was now hidden.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was an option to appeal and I clicked the link to have a human review it.\u00a0 A few hours later I got an email that it had been reviewed, approved, and un-hidden.\u00a0 With a thank you that this process helps keep the site \u201csafer\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If their automated process is that bad, if it can see a photo of origami butterflies and decide this is adult content &#8211; what else is it getting wrong?\u00a0 And how is this keeping anyone safe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a lot of darkness in people and a lot of that ends up on the internet.\u00a0 And censoring that can walk a fine line.  Images of people hurting other people or animals, yeah, that\u2019s an easy one to censor. \u00a0 Pretty clearly wrong and illegal.  But human sexuality?  Human nudity?  That\u2019s trickier.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is appropriate? \u00a0 What do we, as a civilization or culture, define as taboo?\u00a0 Who makes those rules?  And as we add more machine intelligence to the picture, how do we teach machines the rules that we humans struggle to define?\u00a0 The human form is amazing and beautiful and somehow, also, inappropriate.  At least on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tumblr hasn\u2019t figured it out yet.\u00a0 And I\u2019ll need to keep a closer eye to see what they flag next.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For now, though, enjoy the hand-painted paper butterflies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I moved my origami projects from my own personal site to Tumblr &#8211; figuring this would be a good platform to host my artwork and would save me some time in formatting. 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