Dark Blue Sky

Censors have fled to their happy space:

Bluesky Safety — the innocuous name for the platform’s censorship team — has itself admitted the unmanageable demand for violating First Amendment rights on Bluesky but only fueled the problem by encouraging more reports and promising to step up its censorship efforts. On Nov. 15, after noting that some three million new users had joined Bluesky in a week’s time, the Bluesky Safety account added:

In the past 24 hours, we have received more than 42,000 reports (an all-time high for one day). We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour. To put that into context, in all of 2023, we received 360k reports. We’re triaging this large queue so the most harmful content such as CSAM is removed quickly. With this significant influx of users, we’ve also seen increased spam, scam, and trolling activity — you may have seen some of this yourself. Our team is reviewing these accounts, and you can help us by reporting them by clicking the three-dot menu on each post/account.

After thus encouraging easily offended, hate-filled users to do even more of what they’re already doing to overwhelm Bluesky Safety, the team added, “We appreciate your patience as we dial our moderation team up to max capacity and bring on new team members to support this load. Your safety is our highest priority." Not your free speech, not your Constitutional rights, but your “safety.”

Safety always comes before speech for them...