- What’s Happening with Google Instant Didn’t Happen Overnight | Tony Comstock’s Kōan of Silence – So now everybody knows — there are some things that Google doesn’t want to show you. This is not news.
- Google Instant: No Sex — and No Violet Blue | violet blue ® :: open source sex -
- Instant Censorship, Google Style | Sex In The Public Square – To Google my challenge is different: Don’t filter nudity or sexual health results in the name of filtering pornography. Don’t filter in the first place. Your users already have the ability to control their search settings. Don’t censor them automatically. Don’t be evil.
- Google Instant Blocks Sexy Searches: See What Basic Terms Google Thinks Are NSFW – As The Register observes, Google Instant “includes a blacklist for words and phrases involving what the company considers ‘violence, hate, or pornography.’” Whereas querying for neutral terms like “weather” or “restaurant” offers up a dropdown menu with suggested terms and presents a page of relevant search results, the streaming search tool does not work with “NSFW” search terms, which cause the page to go blank.
- Dependable Pleasure | Pamela Madsen | Psychology Today – Food doesn’t tell you that you are fat and undesirable.
- Lauren Weinstein’s Blog: Unintended Consequences: Google Instant and the “Suicide Search” (and a Solution) – The effect my friend noted, and that I verified with various other searches, is a fundamental aspect of how Google Instant is implemented. Since GI continuously updates pages of result listings as the user types, they are presented through Google’s estimation of what the most appropriate results might be for partial search terms as they are being entered in real-time…The “problem” appears with words that are partial elements (substrings) of other words and terms. Human nature being what it is, the GI interface tends to suppress the previously standard behavior of typing a newline after entering a search query.
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- Disability Dharma: What Including & Learning From Disability Can Teach (Everyone) About Sex | Scarleteen – Any temporary or permanent limitations, variations in embodiment or ways of functioning we or others have with our bodies or minds doesn't mean we or they are not sexual or not human or are any less sexual or less human. If anything, it's exactly those things which clearly demonstrate our being human.
- Significant National Shift Found in Sex Education | RHRealityCheck.org – This year’s edition mirrors the national shift. While we continue our tradition of “following the money” by documenting all federal abstinence-only-until-marriage dollars, we also document more comprehensive approaches to sex education that are happening across the country. For the first time, the SIECUS State Profiles identify examples of model programs, policies, and best practices being implemented in public schools across the country that provide more comprehensive approaches to sex education for young people.
- ‘.xxx’ Ruling Has Far-Reaching Implications for the Internet | TechNewsDaily – The ruling has implications beyond just the porn industry, and could affect the content and form of the vast wave of Chinese- and Arabic-character web address that are sure to change the nature of the Internet in the coming years. Milton Mueller, a professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, said that by codifying internal definitions of consensus, morality and social good, ICANN took its clearest stance yet on how it might deal with the rush of domain name applications from societies far more restrictive than American and Western Europe.
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…I recently saw a post on FetLife calling for demo bottoms. Since this was for an event I’m attending, I was eager to volunteer. Then I read the post. The instructor specifically asked for slender models, because (and I am paraphrasing a bit) fuller-figured people’s skin doesn’t clamp / pinch easily.
I was really angry. And a bit stung.
Then I stopped myself.
How the fuck do we, an alternative outlier community, fail to see that all people being represented is far better then some people being represented?
Then I sat there pinching myself.
Quite literally.
I found it was pretty easy to grab skin on some areas, tougher on others. I imagine that to be the case with anyone.
To my jaundiced eye, this smacked of “Look, I don’t wanna play with fat girls so I’ll say something about how it is critical for the class so that I don’t have to reject a bunch of fat people.â€
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