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Women's groups worry Big Tech algorithms suppress words and products related to women's health

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Women’s groups worry Big Tech algorithms suppress words and products related to women’s health.

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  • ZeroOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Encouraged by who ? Their mothers (Since children spend most of their time with mothers)

    • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      By “society”? That’s what NSFW labels are all about. Even the expression is a nonsense euphemism. (You’d think that any not work related websites would be “nsfw”.) Anything to do with the mechanics of human reproduction is taboo. In practice, that’s 90% depictions of feminine bodies.

      Of course, there is more to it than that. For example, in Germany, until last year, it was illegal to “advertise” abortions. In practice, that meant that doctors were prosecuted for providing information on the web.