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Re: Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users switch to Threads, Bluesky

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Post by Fidelix » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 1:37 PM UTC

These are the only ones that voted:

Flávio Dino (Appointed by Lula) Cármen Lúcia (Appointed by Lula) Cristiano Zanin (Appointed by Lula) Luiz Fux (Appointed by Lula)

Re: Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users switch to Threads, Bluesky

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Post by anon291 » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 4:54 PM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #135

anon291 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Communicating with humans is a human right.

He can scream if he wants. He can’t use our digital commons for that.

That's the entire purpose of freedom of speech: to be able to use the commons to speak.

Re: Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users switch to Threads, Bluesky

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Post by vitorgrs » Sat, Sep 14, 2024, 7:14 AM UTC

_heimdall wrote: post #159

vitorgrs wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You probably need to store user IPs to moderate. At least on Mastodon, any instance stores IP, so....

Are IP addresses really helpful in moderation? Moderation usually pertains to the content itself, meaning you would want to block certain content from being posted regardless of the IP that sends a request. Maybe you extend moderation to include banning users, but at that point you have more specific data than IP addresses (like usernames or user IDs). You can target a list of suspected spammer IPs, though that's oft…

I know that for Instagram/Threads, IP is very key to their moderation. Once they ban a user with that IP, any other account from that IP will also be banned (or something like it), it's fundamental to avoid ban evasion.

For Mastodon, all of this is manual, so it will be up to moderators on the server....