Dave Portnoy

X censors picture of injured soldier: Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy shared a heartfelt story on his X timeline. He related the story of meeting Rick Yarosh, a soldier who was hit by an IED while on patrol in Abu Ghraib. According to Portnoy, Yarosh "suffered burns over more than half his body, had his right leg amputated below the knee and lost the use of his hands." Portnoy related the joke that Yarosh made upon meeting him, making fun of his own appearance by saying "I love your pizza reviews. I went to one you recommended last week. Took 1 bite...burned my face off." Portnoy shared a photo of Yarosh in his uniform to accompany the story. X placed a sensitive content filter over Yarosh's picture. Such filters do not allow users on the mobile app who have the sensitive filter enabled on their profile, the default setting, to view the filtered content at all. On the web version of X, the users must click through the sensitive content interstitial in order to view the filtered content. Not only do such filters give the impression of inappropriate content, similar filters have been shown to reduce user interaction with content.

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