my friend Mira Lazine (@thefreeradical.org) has just been suspended for 24 hours for apparently violating Bluesky's rules against "violent or threatening speech." "i got it because someone replied to me by saying slurs and so i immediately was just like 'no, kys,'" she tells me.
saying the three letters raw unseasoned is kinda passe and bland you gotta hit them with some acrobatics like "google finnish hospital ad"
A mi no me gustaria que se matasen a si mismos, para que quitarme el placer de hacerlo yo misma
god a girl gets distracted by work for a little bit and this damned site starts going to hell
she added: "i'll happily be banned if it means telling nazis they deserve the fate that they want to inflict upon billions of innocent people."
I've said far edgier shit and didn't get anything for it (e.g. saying l***cons deserve to be bombed, jokes about famous people who fund transphobes being assassinated, etc) I suspect Bluesky has been implementing some AI automod system, and it's making false positives
for clarity, Mira provided the following statement: "the guy was using slurs against Black folk, Latine folk, and Asian folk. no slurs were targeted at me, but they were very explicitly racial slurs, just masked from filters via using emojis."
im back. go support my friend soad in gaza, she gets banned just for being palestinian and needs support - her son's dying rn. bsky.app/profile/thef...
Mira is truly an amazing journalist. Bring her back!
is bsky really following suit in the decline of free speech? really bsky? really?
We have to remember, it's a company, not the US Constitution. We don't really have free speech here.
this is true, thank you
Please tell me the person who used slurs against her got suspended too
Did the moron that threw that Reply got a Suspension too or did he got away with it? 'Cuz if he didn't, then that tells a lot of how this place is handling the situation. 😵💫
Hopefully, at the very least then their actions aren’t just completely unjustified if they banned both the racist person spewing slurs and the person wishing another human being to take their own life and put their family and friends through the pain of having a loved one take their own life
Suspended*
Mira tells me: "i have no clue." she's asked Bluesky but hasn't received a response.
Dang. Hopefully it's not the worst case scenario for that.
i checked clearsky, looks like he was banned thank god
That's great. 👍