#community standards

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[broken--dreams]

Community Standards...

Would this be adult content if the far guy was wearing a shirt?

What if the near guy was wearing long pants?

What if the near person was a girl in dress that went below her knees?

What if the person lying down was a 10 year old boy? A 15 year old boy?

What if that boy was wearing shirt?

Now, apparently only the original poster can appeal these decisions. So found it in my feed with a red banner and saying that it violated standards.

So how did I repost it.?

Easy:

open image in new tab.

Using your OS, marque select the image minus the red border.

Create a new post.

Paste the image as part of that new post.

I would much prefer if Tumblr just had NSFW tag, or copied the movie rating scheme.

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Yahoo Beats Up On Brooklyn Artist

[Originally published on Livejournal on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 7:03am]

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

On Saturday, June 2nd at 5:00pm., in Bedford Stuyvesant on the garden level of a brownstone renovated into an art gallery, Zion Gallery will present their show Honoring Men, featuring work by Trevor Brown, Stephan L. Davis, Cornell Jones and Corey Lightfoot. If it was up to Yahoo and their recent acquirement FlickR (a photo sharing community) this neighborhood art gallery should close up shop and the artist/photographer Mr. Brown should stick to his day job.

“I am so disappointed because without FlickR and community support there I would not have had the courage to present my work publicly”

says Trevor Brown, an articulate charming young man with shoulder length locs.

On May 28th in preparation for the Saturday show Mr. Brown spend his morning; reaching out to the FlickR community to share his excitement about his first public offline exhibition. The community he loved responded with excitement with their odd assortment of creative names:

s,B - Leader of the Wachoo Wachoo Tribe says:

"I would so totally come to this exhibition, but I'm too far away",

also Mr. Brown felt very encourage until at 1:29pm he received an email from FlickR’s TOS (terms of service):

In joining Flickr, you agreed to abide by the Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. Flickr accounts are intended for individual use, for our members to share photos that they've taken, not to sell stuff:

"Don't Use Flickr for Commercial Purposes Flickr is for personal use only. If you sell products, services or yourself through your photostream, we will terminate your account. Any other commercial use of Flickr, Flickr technologies (including APIs, Flickrmail, etc), or Flickr accounts must be approved by Flickr."

We've received multiple complaints from the community. Please remove the following post from all groups you submitted it to within 24 hours so that we don't have to take further action on your account:

Brown said “This same ‘community’ had viewed my 500 photos over 117,185 times, and there was increased traffic and positive feedback hitting my account right after the exhibition postings, I felt very betrayed and confused.”

Zion Gallery curator Fedrecia Hartley expressed her outrage, “Trevor has such beautiful work, I am so honored to have him participating in this show, his work has warmth and beauty that I think will resonate with the people in the community, I am saddened Yahoo wants to single him out for persecution.”

Mr. Brown a former entrepreneur did not take the affront sitting down, and promised the following “I will donate all the proceeds from sales minus curator’s fees to the Brooklyn Arts Council. I am so insulted by Yahoo’s allegations”.

Mr. Brown is also seeking legal representation for a personal lawsuit against Yahoo/FlickR to the tune of one million thirty-five dollars ($1,000,035.00). “I am a new artist this is my first show, and Yahoo is trying to harsh my mellow, I want to send a message to them that I will not lay down and be trampled over when I am just trying to show my art”. Mr. Brown said there is also talk of a class action suit against Yahoo Incorporated, because he feels there are other artist who have felt restricted by FlickR’s TOS changes and account restrictions.

Honoring Men Art Exhibition, will run from June 1 to July 7, 2007, opening reception on June 2 from 5:00pm – 9:00pm at Zion Gallery 152 Mac Donough Street, Garden Level (between Throop and Marcus Garvey) Bedford Stuyvesant, NY 11216 (718) 919 8014 www.ZionGalleryBedstuy.com. The Zion Gallery will also be participating once again the Bedstuy Strut coming up later in the summer.

[Afterwords: What is so funny to me about this press release is the fact that it clearly came out of my experience with the Small Business in Need Fundraiser Raffle that I did for Project Enterprise a few years before. Also it shows that from jump even with my first exhibition as an artist I am already stirring ish up.

I am pretty sure no one picked this press release up, but it was a great exercise in promotion and leveraging public opinion of the big guy picking on the little guy. No fees were donated to the Brooklyn Art Council either. The release was a whole lot of posturing. I am not even sure if the quotes are real or made up. I had gotten so good at manufacturing news it was ridiculous.

There was also no class action lawsuit, which I wish I truly had standing for, because a little over a decade later the new owners of Flickr SmugMug would delete my entire account with over fifteen years of content, with no notice whatsoever even though I was a fully paid-up member.

Just to clear up something, I had did a post about the exhibition throughout multiple groups around Flickr, with more or less the same message. It was nothing more than digital message-board spam, nothing that others didn't do often. And unlike what Yahoo put forth, nothing was for sale, I was an artist promoting an exhibition. And art exhibitions are usually free to attend. Their language should have spoken to nature of bulk promotions of events outside of Flickr, then their objections would have made more sense.

Curiously as I said, my artistic interest were fanned on the platform, I thought it was actually quite appropriate to promote my first art exhibition on the same platform. But that is the thing I later would learn about these platforms, as much as they want to promote community, they aren't really here for the individual. What I did was the offline equivalent of putting flyers up on phone post, no harm no foul really. If someone was against them, then just like you do in the real world you take them down.

I actually have photos from this exhibition but curiously none of them are uploaded to my Google Photos, and albeit I would love to add some more to this post that means getting out my old laptop, and the old CDs I have burned files to, and that just seems like a whole lot of hoopla. Which is why I have used this image of Karl and me, the exhibition happened around our initial courting period so he attended it with me, seeing me all glammed up for the first time. I think part of this made him feel insecure.

For some reason he thought he was supposed to mirror me, and what I did, and that wasn't ever anything I was looking for in a partner. Mind you, many gays do basically date their twins, I was more interested in folks who contrasted what I bought to the table, his worries were totally unfounded.

It was a good show I think I had fifteen eight by ten photos framed in the show, I also had post cards and greeting cards for sale. Just my first outing as an artist and I was already doing the most, a trend that would follow throughout my artistic career. I think I sold a few pieces, no where near all of them. Some others would sell later in subsequent shows, I think I have a handful left.

When you're going to do something out there in the world, my opinion is put your entire spirit into it whole-heartedly that is what I always did, and I have abso-smurfly no regrets about always trying to be my best self, and put my best work forward in all of my shows, presentations, talks and exhibitions.

[Photo by Brown Estate]

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Meta summoned to Prime Minister's Office. Did they apologise now?

On August 5, the Malaysian government summoned Meta to the Prime Minister’s Office following the removal of posts by PM Anwar Ibrahim, who had expressed condolences for the late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Read More LM News Britain shuts down as disorder CONTINUES Meta summoned The government also criticized Meta for suspending a live broadcast of a pro-Palestinian rally. Malaysia’s Prime…

[palephx]

I'm not really sure why Fookbase has banned me for 20% of the last 15 years, but it's kinda annoying. Especially around elections.

[paulthepoke]

Community Standards

There are people and groups in this world who are simply not interested an anything else but their agenda.

Proverbs 16:11 A just balance and scales belong to the Lord; all the weights of the bag are His concern. Yours truly has been convicted by Facebook justice as a violator of Community Standards. Specifically, human exploitation… “It looks like you shared something in order to exploit others for profit.” -Facebook Full disclosure: I have not made 1 penny from Facebook. I have REFUSED their…

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photo: Andrea Genota

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Statement of Stephen's Spot on WordPress (via Facebook)

Dear readers:On August 11th, 2023, there was an indication that the page was temporary unpublished due to the community concerns of Facebook’s Standards. It was unexpected, and had to go through the protocol of appeals and also to review of the cause of the dilemma. Most importantly, the page has been operational since 2017 and has not had one post that was deemed negative to anyone. This…

[lesbiantism]

Ya know what shout out to butches who wrestle with our butchness because we don’t fit the mold in some way. Butches who aren’t physically strong or naturally caretaking because of physical disability, who need to be cared for, who can’t hold open the door for a femme. Butches with long hair, butches with big hair, butches who express their culture via their hair. Butches who’s masculinity is shaped by their culture, who’s masculinity doesn’t fit the white eurocentric mold. Fat butches, butches with curves viewed as feminine, butches who don’t have skinny, boyish builds. Butches who don’t want to be sexualized, butches on the ace spectrum. Butches who don’t have traditionally masculine interests or mannerisms or whatever. Effeminate butches. Butches who take inspo from gay men. Butches who like the occasional dress or skirt. TRANSFEM BUTCHES!!!!! And any other butches who don’t fit a certain mold!! All butches are good butches and we are all valid.

[sophsicle]

here's the thing. whenever u say "eat the rich" the rich automatically make a sad lil face :( :( :( and go "well that's not very nice. what if we turned around and said eat the poor, huh? that wouldn't make you feel very good, would it?" which is. an insane statement to make. because baby, honey, sweetheart. you are eating the poor. every goddamn day you are eating the poor. and worst of all. you aren't even fucking hungry.

[femconstellation]

Men HATE when I tell them pubic and armpit hair still serve a purpose and body hair isn’t ‘unnecessary evolution-wise anymore’. Because they’ll be covered head-to-toe in thick hair and still say that women shouldn’t have armpit or pubic or leg hair because it serves no purpose and is unhygienic.

And you ask them for a source to their logic that isn’t a shaving company or a company that is funded by the beauty industry and its silence. But I can provide sources for my point lol

[wuornosreincarnate]

'Makeup is an art form', yes. If you use it to create funky, vibrant eyeshadows, tradgoth makeup or add spirals and designs to your face, this is a form of 'self expression', as people like to refer to it. It's abnormal and indicates you're doing it for yourself rather than to adhere to the standards of beauty.

However, doing makeup which looks ‘natural’, trying to hide the fact you’re wearing it, using it to cover blemishes, hyperpigmentation etc that is not self expression if anything it’s self concealment. Hiding your natural self to appear more attractive to society is not an art form it’s a form of subordination which reinforces the idea that women must perform and that there’s something inherently flawed about our bodies. But libfems aren’t ready for that conversation.

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