Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They have weird standards, based on fundamental Christian dogma, which is as much of a hypocritical stance as any strain of fundamentalism of any religion. I will not post photographs of erotica (explicit or soft) from 1100 year old Hindu temples (Khajuraho, Konark), for example, even though they are World Heritage Sites, because the social media AI is too dumb to understand other religious philosophies, which include, in the classical Hindu tradition, that sex is an important part of one's life, and nothing to be ashamed about. Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 10:52 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > I must say that the West has strange standards. Out of the developed world > children with few to no clothes is very common and is not especially > interesting to anyone in that culture. To have created and AI that can not > distinguish between an abusive picture from ordinary life outside the > developed world is hard to believe: even having the AI call up a human to > examine would be preferable. > > I will also refer to natural history publications from the mid-last > century. Having the reference of life in other places is valuable to know > what was compared to what is. Ignorance of the past is usually pretty > harmful. > > Tina, I would protest on the grounds that the image is ethnologically > important for your textbook sales or similar vein. > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 8:44 AM Tina Manley via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> > wrote: > > > LUG: > > > > I am in Facebook jail and cannot post anything for 24 hours. I posted a > > photo of a naked child playing in a fountain in Portugal - in broad > > daylight, with lots of people around, and no genitalia showing. It > > violates their community standards. > > > > 90% of the photos posted on most of the Leica Facebook pages are of naked > > women - not art but cheesecake - paid models. > > > > To say I'm aggravated would be an understatement. > > > > Tina > > > > -- > > https://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/index > > https://pbase.com/tinamanley > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > Don > don.dory at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >