RE: Art, Female Nipples, NSFW & Censsorship - The conservative views from the world of Facebook and how should we behave on Steemit
Generally I don't understand the dissonance that Americans (and by proxy american companies like Facebook) have with Nudity and Violence. The way that these two topics are viewed in the States and in Europe are diametrically opposed. If you'd really want to be serious about "protecting people from controversial content" the very first thing Facebook should do is ban all advertising for political parties, but it's Pay2Win ecosystem doesn't want that. So where does that leave us? We are stuck in a perennial "Nanny Mode" on other social media that chases us in circles while constantly being robbed of your data, digital assets and fed with adverts (political or otherwise). In other words we are served a version of "the truth" and none of this is very conductive towards personal liberty or the strengthening of Democracy. The internet as such, especially in its earlier days, was very much an expression of freedom and experimentation but it has been bogged down since. Now with the Blockchain (and by extension Steemit) we are again in the fortunate situation to be able to "shape a paradigm" as it happens. Bringing this back to Erotica, Nudity and NSFW especially in an Art context, I think we are fortunate to have landed on a platform that is less discriminatory about these kind of things. We are all naked, there's nothing wrong with it, get over it, enjoy it.
Still, with NSFW you will always "stir controversy", so be prepared for it.
Oh totally! That's one of those reasons why I love living in Europe and would never be interested in moving to the US :D
And yeah, what happened with the intented since created, is what I'm afraid already happening here, as there are those users who brought their old-fashioned, prude, point of views along with them.
I don't mind "stirring controversy", and never did, but let's be honest here- it only takes one pissed off whale to destroy a plankton on Steemit. It's still not the democratic utopian community we wish for it to be, where we all share a wonderful freadom of speech :P