State Of The Rat Technology

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Simon Phipps

While we’re on the subject of mandatory filtering, here’s the sort of technology we are talking about in action:

The original State Of The Rat Technology:

Now removed, the original post that triggered this page was from the owner of a mole rat complaining that her photos of her rat were being incorrectly tagged as pornography and consequently her account kept getting blocked.

Political content is so easy to spot:

That reference database is spot on defining ownership:

History and classics are not always PC:

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  1. Article 13 – An Existential Threat | Meshed Insights Ltd, on June 25, 2018 at 15:28 said:

    […] to open source communities. If Article 13 endures, every project may need to apply trigger-happy filtering and default censorship to bug reports, code commits, forum postings and pretty much every other […]

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