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Agreed. User definitely needs to be in control, but so does the Admin. The admin needs, and must, have ultimate control, because it's the admin that's footing the bill most often, and the one that's going to be held accountable for the con…
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!gnusocial really needs the ability for users and admins to block all content coming from a specific server. Blocking a user still shows their posts in /main/all … Definitely need the ability to block a hub as well as a user. Yes it's cen…
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@vinzv I feel you, and I certainly don't want my users' content appearing anywhere it's not wanted or shouldn't. !gnusocial
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@drymer Not everybody uses Qvitter. :-) !gnusocial
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@vinzv One of the things you can do is this:
php scripts/setconfig.php public localonly true
Which will only show your nodes' local content on the public timelines. !gnusocial
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a #statement 4 'self' censorship! think on #wauholland ' s #word RT @cyberczar Agreed. User definitely needs to be in control, but so does the Admin. The admin needs, and must, have ultimate control, because it's the admin that's footing the bi…
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@cyberczar I confirm this #bug: Posts of blocked accounts still show up in Classic, not as single posts, but as part of conversations and in WholeKnownNet → @mmn !gnusocial
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!gnusocial Also thinking that it should probably be transparent. Either in the "Statistics" plugin, or somewhere else. Something like: "The admin of this node has chosen to block all content originating from the following nodes: • iamove…
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@benediktg !gnusocial It's my experience that setting that option only affects /main/all … it doesn't affect anything else.
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@orobouros@loadaverage.org !gnusocial > "At the same time, I don't know where you get the idea that there's any right to not be exposed to offensive ideas." A preacher has every right to proseletyze on a street corner. He does not have the…
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@utzer !gnusocial Except: a) When most speech originating from the node is illegal (a neo nazi node spouting holocaust denial propaganda to a German node, or take IamOver18 and a node that's in Saudi Arabia where the mere existence of porno…
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In my opinion, I don't think it would be necessary (or good even) for Alice's "blacklist" to be made public. I would consider that to be private information.
That said, an admin/ node-level site-wide "blacklist"/ "whitelist" should very much be public. !gnusocial
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Maybe this explains it better: *Nobody has the right to an audience.* /cc !gnusocial
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@orobouros of course instance admins have the right to do what they like with their individual instances. should !gnusocial, though, facilitate widespread censorship?
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Absolutely. An admin must have full and complete control over what happens on his or her server. Full stop. The day some outside entity forces me to do something on my server against my will is the moment I turn it off. (I would assume the…
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@cyberczar no one's talking about forcing admins to do anything-- we're talking about whether additional development to !gnusocial in order to support some admin's desire for enhanced censorship functionality is warranted and appropriate
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!GNUsocial is !FreeSoftware. If the current contributors don't bake in the ability to block users/groups/tags/instances then someone else will fork the code and do it. And as long as it stays Free Software someone else can fork that code and remove it again.
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@cyberczar @betafive @orobouros @bobjonkman2 @dragnucs I'm pretty sure there is some instance-blocking functionality already in !Gnusocial. Back when Evan's company was the primary host of !StatusNet, some spammer instances arose that sta…
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That said, overuse of that functionality could turn GS from a growing, unified network into a small number of shrinking and mutually-opposed networks. I would hope that admins would seriously consider the impact before they block instances.
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Freedom of speech does not grant one freedom of an audience.
!GNUsocial admins should have the ability to decide the content and audience of their node.
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@lnxw48 #XMPP servers generally already support blocking other nodes by domain name. It's maybe more sensitive in a public environment like this, but rather than "opposing networks" (in a way that's correct though) I think end-user…
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@hikerus The point of my !FreeSoftware message is that applying a technical means to enforce a moral standard will not work. If an admin objects to offensive content in the timeline they can write "censorship code" to keep it out. If someone …
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@hikerus I think you should probably read what @bobjonkman2 writes again, perhaps try to think of it from a different perspective. He's not actually saying anything that opposes your statements.
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@cyberczar It doesn't if you just unsubscibe does it? !gnusocial
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@cyberczar @martin !gnusocial IPTABLES is your friend.