After this week's momentous Supreme Court ruling I posted about the 1933 Enabling Act in Germany as a warning about the dangers of growing totalitarianism. Disappointed to learn @moderation.bsky.app labelled it "radical views advocating violence, hate, or discrimination." Very poor job @bsky.app
March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.
That's obvious. What's less clear is whether it was reported by an uneducated user, and/or why the moderator didn't read the context, you know, doing the actual job of moderating.
I feel that label has been pretty consistently applied to swastika imagery because that is a symbol that upsets a lot of people to casually encounter. If you appeal it, it gets put in front of a human being.
I did appeal and the label was removed, but only after I posted it about it publicly. A good outcome, but content moderation on Bsky clearly has a ways to go.
Were you warned that the label had been applied? If not there's a problem: how would people know to go back and check their posts to see if they'd been flagged?
