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Bard spotting on Bluesky 08 December 2024 
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I don't purport to speak for BlueSky Trust & Safety;
I'm going to make a prediction based on my own Scientific Wild A## Guesses, from observing Bsky T&S as well as other UCHISP T&S deal with KiwiFarms-adjacent / crypto-bigot personalities —
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
No UCHISP can possibly be a team of experts possessing the deepest lore about every single person and business and org and entity on the planet; They cannot speak every language; they cannot know every comer's every alt account across every social media ever.
So they use "Behaviour on Platform".
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
UCHISPs with "all comers" (general, open invitation to sign up) User Agreements are (generally) making a contract with those who sign up - "Don't use the platform to do X, Y, or Z — and we will let you use it."
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
There is now, and has been for a very long time, an effort — orbiting KiwiFarms-adjacent "free speech for me, but not for thee" powerful politicos, to bait lawsuits & scenarios that can be spun into case law to murk the entire industry of UCHISPs, or at least plucky startups not owned by Peter Thiel
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Most UCHISPs are employing someone in legal or T&S who is at least a little aware of the trend of the GOP & its apparatchique & various useful idiots towards "bring me something that will gut Section 230 forever". KOSA, SESTA/FOSTA, Gawkerisation, etc
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
So a large amount of corporate structure, technical planning, legal research into the language of the user agreements, etc, is done in order to insulate the central keystones of the services against being knocked out by these strategic actions.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
BlueSky is built by veterans who clearly have a vision and a handle towards frustrating technical and governmental efforts to knock out keystones, chill free speech, enact censorship, and target the service on bad faith pretexts.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Those of us merely using the service are free to organise our communities and our community boundaries as we see fit.
BlueSky T&S is limited to evaluating — for very good reasons — Behaviour on Platform.
We already know how to respond to CryptoKiwiFarmer "Journ*list" newcomer dude.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
We have good reason to exclude him from engaging with us, and the cowtools to prevent him and his hangers-on — who see us as game pieces — from doing so.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
What we need, to persuade BlueSky T&S to action him, is definite proof of him aiding & abetting violations.
So we need people to watch him. To report to BlueSky Moderation — in a way that they can process — the violations that he makes, and that he induces others to make.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
We have to make cases - individually and collectively - to BlueSky T&S that he and his community - his "network graph" - exist on platform to violate the TOS.
And that's a lot of invisible, thankless, quiet, soul-sickening work.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
If BlueSky T&S leaves the issue long enough & he & his network graph poison the global community enough, there will eventually be an inversion of the trust thermocline.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
In every English language speaking scenario of trust thermocline inversion of UCHISPs over the past decade, that inversion has started with a T&S department ignoring networked harassment.
That is my S.W.A.G. about the crisis being precipitated.
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