Funkwhale is building a new mechanism to filtering out music from Nazis and White Supremacists. In doing so, this opens a can of worms.

The Funkwhale music platform is alive and in active development, and they’re working on a feature to filter far-right artists off the network. Some Fediverse self-hosters are divided on letting a third party decide what should be allowed in their library.

  • Frank Casa ( frank@frank.casa ) 
    5·
    2 years ago

    Are they blocking illegal content (such as content that promotes violence or issues threats) and content against the terms of service (like hateful, trolling, or disrespectful content)?

    Or are they banning people based on their political beliefs or who they voted for, even if their content is not political in any way whatsoever?

    And how are they defining alt right? A literal Neo Nazi? Or someone who voted Republican?

    • Sean Tilley ( deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml ) OPEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      For the time being, it seems like they’re primarily targeting White Supremacist and Neo-Nazi content, but it’s one of those things where the scope could open up to include a lot of different music subgenres. That being said, the mechanism is purely genre-based, it doesn’t directly target individual artists.

    • frozenspinach ( frozenspinach@lemmy.ml ) English
      3·
      2 years ago

      based on their political beliefs

      Nazism being the political belief.

      And how are they defining alt right?

      It’s music tags that literally have phrases like nazi or white power in the phrase.