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Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music (wedistribute.org)

submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago

The intent sounds fine, but as @[email protected] points out, it offloads the actual responsibility of filtering on MusicBrainz and WikiData.

It's not hard to imagine MusicBrainz being flooded by users trying to circumvent bans by editing tags. Or incorrectly tagging bands they don't like or agree with to get them banned.

Funkwhale probably isn't big enough in itself to make a huge splash, but this proposed ban does add another target to the extreme right's hit list. It seems a little iffy to me to make an open project like MusicBrainz that target?