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Cross-posted from Wordpress.
"This is not a post about why the announcement that Tumblr would be purged of adult content on December 17, 2018 is dumb and harmful. We all know that it is stupid. We all know a Puritanical purge does nothing to protect child trafficking victims and it is using the cultural fixation on “the innocence of the child” (not too get too Lee Edelman here) as its rationale, presumably under the assumption that this rational is so culturally sacred that no one would dare reject it despite, again, it not helping children in any way... No, this is about algorithmic sorting as a moralizing framework. How they make meaning out of the social reality they are created to compute based on the values encoded into them and in doing so "encode" these values in the performative infrastructure that makes up our world."
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