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(DIR) Post #AXaZTFU7dgIo1oH4zo by vagina_museum@masto.ai
2023-07-11T12:55:21Z
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We're seeing more and more accounts on other social media platforms censoring normal anatomical words as if they're dirty - using nonsense terms like "v&g1n@". You'll never catch us doing that. Here's why...
(DIR) Post #AXaZTGBN2stgBwVcPI by vagina_museum@masto.ai
2023-07-11T12:56:42Z
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First things first, if you use a screenreader, you'll have just heard your device attempt to pronounce something like "vand-g-won-at". That's not very clear, and furthermore, it's not accessible at all. That alone is a very good reason to reject this practice.
(DIR) Post #AXaZTGu2MocsQTPI1o by vagina_museum@masto.ai
2023-07-11T12:59:47Z
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We're aware that this practice of self-censorship is rooted in concerns about posts getting deboosted or outright banned. This is definitely a real problem with automated processes on platforms such as Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. We ourselves stopped using TikTok entirely because it was unusable for a Vagina Museum.
(DIR) Post #AXaZTHX21pomNPeQoC by vagina_museum@masto.ai
2023-07-11T13:02:00Z
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Someone designed the automated processes and algorithms. They didn't just magically happen. A decision has been made by some social media platforms to treat anatomical language as if it's something that must be hidden away.
(DIR) Post #AXaZTIJF8aNmmwCvxI by vagina_museum@masto.ai
2023-07-11T13:04:12Z
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These decisions are dangerous. According to research by the Eve Appeal, 65% of women aged 16-25 have a problem with the word "vagina". A third of this age group would avoid going to the doctors with a gynaecological health issue due to embarrassment. Just last week, the Eve Appeal flagged that Instagram was censoring the hashtag #VaginalCancer, a tag containing vital health information.
(DIR) Post #AXaZTK7GQ5zMOMcOYq by vagina_museum@masto.ai
2023-07-11T13:07:36Z
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To avoid using the word "vagina" is to reinforce the decisions that have been made by social media platforms. To censor it as though it's a dirty word that you shouldn't be saying is to reinforce this taboo. We should be challenging the algorithms, not going with the flow.
(DIR) Post #AXaZTM0xMW8EHNgO0W by vagina_museum@masto.ai
2023-07-11T13:08:59Z
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After challenging Instagram's decision, the #VaginalCancer hashtag was successfully uncensored. And isn't the fight for information, knowledge, and normalisation a fight worth taking up, even if it's at the expense of a few likes?
(DIR) Post #AXaZTPQEgz8SqeX7KK by vagina_museum@masto.ai
2023-07-11T13:12:32Z
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(and this is why we love you, fediverse. None of those algorithms over here!)
(DIR) Post #AXcmXBLmib181yxV56 by Mary625@newsie.social
2023-07-11T13:08:50Z
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@vagina_museum Where can't you say, "vagina"?
(DIR) Post #AXcmXPI2tILRGRJiCG by kite@social.tchncs.de
2023-07-11T14:33:39Z
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@Mary625 @vagina_museum on TikTok apparently. And on YouTube you can’t get payed for your video if you do say these forbidden words
(DIR) Post #AXcmpxKz2g0M4ZXIR6 by Sibshops@mastodon.online
2023-07-11T14:45:44Z
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@Mary625 @vagina_museum Tiktok uses AI to suppress videos with keywords.
(DIR) Post #AXcmpxygf3lQ3i70K0 by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2023-07-11T22:39:30Z
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@Sibshops @Mary625 @vagina_museum A certain semi notable yt dude discussed the whole threads thing, but I think the funniest part is when he notes all the major platforms have killed NSFW topics while un-ironically having pissed on Mastodon and its “anarchic distributed system”. ^-^Of course they want to sanitize content. They have an international reach and its less work if they make everything bland for advertising. the worst take on so many levels.https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/110692019331528098
(DIR) Post #AXcmpyd6Eo5e531HJQ by fcktheworld587@social.linux.pizza
2023-07-12T17:08:18Z
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @Sibshops @Mary625 @vagina_museum less costly, over all. Capitalism is poison
(DIR) Post #AXcmpzhkF1OrPkCVBw by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2023-07-11T22:39:43Z
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@Sibshops @Mary625 @vagina_museum Yah know because it’s democratic to have an algorithm pimping partisan toxic sludge. That’s freedom of expression.
(DIR) Post #AXcmrivbaR43xiVa9Q by Mary625@newsie.social
2023-07-12T00:08:36Z
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @Sibshops @vagina_museum 😂May I add, please, vagina
(DIR) Post #AXcmvkus8X1XHq5WiW by toplesstopics@eldritch.cafe
2023-07-11T18:28:13Z
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@vagina_museum did #instagram ACTUALLY stop #censorship towards the #VaginalCancer tag, or did they just claim they did while continuing to #shadowban it? As they've done with so many other tags and subjects they claim to have stopped #banned / #banning yet continue to do so, like #BreastFeeding and #BreastCancer 😠
(DIR) Post #AXcmy70wwodUOy3RSa by sci_photos@troet.cafe
2023-07-11T15:37:39Z
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@vagina_museum VAGINA 🔊
(DIR) Post #AXcmzNCKGO58spyd1M by ceruleanarc@eldritch.cafe
2023-07-11T19:44:35Z
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@vagina_museum Thank you for fighting this.I hate the censoring of words that need MORE visibility, not less. All to cater to a minority of Victorian Era pearl clutchers. The damage they do by banning such words can be seen clearly when men ask questions like "is my pregnant wife drowning our baby by getting into the tub and preventing her vagina from getting air?"And those questions make me very sad for humanity.
(DIR) Post #AXcn2XlXQchyWnxW7M by Htaggert@mstdn.social
2023-07-11T13:14:15Z
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@vagina_museum ahhh and the last three GYN I visited were- actively horrible- made weird comments etc - so maybe it’s not embarrassment? Maybe it’s because even with female MD’s we’ve enough past experiences to… fill a book or two.
(DIR) Post #AXcnIlJIpzs1AYUAm8 by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2023-07-12T17:13:31Z
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@fcktheworld587 @Sibshops @Mary625 @vagina_museum yeh sure except for the part that nations cannot adapt because of the economic inertia and from greed and contempt.only 6 billion are at stake and the very economic order itself from its unraveling ecological foundation.it remains to be seen if modernity has the ability to adapt, if it is fit or unfit to survive, unlike the rural folk of the world who have and must adapt out of necessity.