Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music
Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music
The Funkwhale music platform is alive and in active development, and they're working on a feature to filter far-right artists off the network. Some Fediverse self-hosters are divided on letting a third party decide what should be allowed in their library.
I support that fight against Nazi content, but hard-coded blacklists in a open-source Fediverse software? Something is off here.
Hope they find a better way. Make it the default behaviour, include it in all tutorials, defederate.
On the other hand, open-source software enables one to disable or edit those blocklists with a simple patch. It's just an extreme way of making it the default behavior, and therefore making their political statement stronger.
There might be a better way, but I'm not really concerned with this implementation.
Are they blocking illegal content (such as content that promotes violence or issues threats) and content against the terms of service (like hateful, trolling, or disrespectful content)?
Or are they banning people based on their political beliefs or who they voted for, even if their content is not political in any way whatsoever?
And how are they defining alt right? A literal Neo Nazi? Or someone who voted Republican?
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Yeah, I don't even know how you would do that but if a platform I'm hosting and managing tries to tell me what content is or isn't permissable it's going in the bin.
Don't need some big brother crap on my system controlling what I do with my hardware.
it’s going in the bin
oh no! anyway.
they aren't controlling what you do, though. they're just refusing to enable far-right content. software isn't a natural right that is taken away when someone refuses to help you do what you want. it is a fruit of labor that enables you to do something you wouldn't be able to do otherwise
Right, but for them to do so requires a level of monitoring what you use and open piece of software for, which is unacceptable to me. If you had an old style mp3 player that refused to play certain songs it would be seen as broken at best. If that selection of songs got updated at the discretion of some third party you start walking into ministry of truth territory.
This is different from something like YouTube or whatever hosted service refusing to platform content, this would cross into directly controlling personal consumption by forced removal. We call it bad when people start banning books, but it's ok so long as it's our person selecting the bans?
The existence of Mien Kamph in a library's collection doesn't make the librarian a Nazi, and it doesn't force the content onto the public.