This is not really a discussion about Steemit, but more like a discussion of the way we communicate on the internet as a whole, and how very Americanised many things are.
For the time being I am trying out the Akasha alpha, and read a guy writing what I have also experienced on the federated twitter-clone Mastodon/GnuSocial (and also a few times here on Steemit) that there had to be some kind of moderators to prevent porno and terrorists. And he is not alone. There are many new users that demand moderation of the content. It worries me a little that even on free, commonly owned networks people are demanding the BIG MOMMY to look over them, without really questioning who this entity actually is.
And it might just be easy to forget when you live in a country that set the standard for what is allowed. But what if you are Norwegian and takes a picture of your lovely wife on the beach... and she is topless? The thing about NSFW, when you think of it, is that it simply follows US morals.
If we imagined a system that was intent on securing that nobody was offended, we would have to remove images of female hair and bodyparts... some Muslims for example would prefer that.
In Scandinavia we have childrens film with naked men jumping around in snow (Ronja Rövardotter), and we are proud of our naked bathing culture!
A good example is a court- and press-case in Denmark: A group of elderly men used to have dinner every year in a summerhouse on a small island, In the morning after the dinner they used to bathe naked in the sea. But in 2013 there was another family on the beach and the family father found that the old men offended his fourteen year old daughter, so he filmed the incident to use on Facebook and as as proof. But then the case flipped on him. Not many on Facebook had sympathy with his cause, and then the tabloid-paper Ekstra-Bladet got hold of the story and the Danish people judged him - and not the old men. In this the people was well in sync with the law, and the father had to pay a fine of about 1000$ to the old men for indecent exposure. (later he got money from the state to take it to a higher court and was allowed not to pay.) So the case ended with nothing really, except for a lot of bad sentiments pointed at the family father. (I think he was a jerk too :)
But had the case been in the USA or Saudi Arabia I believe that the old men would have had to pay... and dearly in Saudi Arabia.
So the NSFW-tag is not for us, and not for people in Indonesia - The only ones whose limits really are respected are US Americans.
So I do prefer an open social network without censorship and moderation. There will of course be discussions. But I see that as much more fertile than a central body of faceless Facebook moderators.
