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Self-harm (especially when depicting minors) has special standards. The recent court ruling on child safety against Meta probably led directly to this decision.

I don't think it particularly does in other media. Plenty of books have that as a theme. On netflix, 13 reasons why was one of their big hits.

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/16/742386829/netflix-edits-out-c...

And that was in 2019.

Explicit depictions are the target in most of these controversies.


Self-harm (especially when depicting minors) has special standards. The recent court losses on child safety for Meta and YouTube probably led to this.

Completely absurd. If it's not safe for children just slap an age rating on it.

I don't like this trend of every technology assuming I'm a child that needs to be protected from the world while simultaneously assuming I'm an adult with infinite disposable income that must be shown ads to all the time. This is insincere. Children need to be "protected" only when it's convenient and allows the platform to exercise unchecked control. Nobody is protecting children from ads because that would be inconvenient.


To be clear, I'm not advocating for the behavior here, just explaining that, for most tech companies, the risk of liability is a huge motivator. Liability for poor use of ad targeting would induce similar behavior (and I think that'd be a win for everyone involved)

i feel like this is going to be really dangerous tbh, especially if it starts blocking informational content

How often are you playing as black?

As often as the system decides that I should play as black.

Ha. I thought mine was broken on iPhone for a second.

A comment not about the article, but rather about the perceived quality of the HN comments.

X suppresses posts from people you follow in favor of algorithmically boosted posts, so at scale the follow counts don't matter as much.

My favorite class of HN comment: bringing concreteness to a vibes fight.

Perhaps unfortunately, vibes are part of being human. Ignore them at your peril.

Vibes can be safely ignored when they are disproven by easily accessible facts

Facts are ultimately just vibes that pass a cultural filter.

Similarly, we have a technical concept called "rollback" that is unrelated to a reverted commit.

> I personally care more about using Bitcoin than its price

I suspect that the author is in a pretty drastic minority here.


Yup. I quite literally don't know anyone who is using Bitcoin directly to pay for everyday expenses, nor even for larger purchases. It always includes using an off-ramp and going through fiat.


As an aside, participating in April Cools Club for the last 5 years has been very fun and invigorating as a writer.

https://www.aprilcools.club/


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