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This issue is quite easily fixable if Facebook would have set up their censoring policy in a different way: allow everything by default, detect or let users fla
by superice 10y ago
This issue is quite easily fixable if Facebook would have set up their censoring policy in a different way: allow everything by default, detect or let users flag illegal posts or images (e.g. child pornography) Make the post invisible for others from that point on, but do not remove it nor notify the author. Alert the authorities when child porn is uploaded, and let them figure out whether they'd want to pursue it or not. If authorities decide not to pursue, make it visible again. If authorities do decide to pursue the author should've abided the law. That way Facebook moves the entire censorship discussion to law enforcement, which is pretty much the best place for it to be.
Furthermore, because this may yield some shocking images into ones timeline, Facebook should try to use machine learning to invisibly tag posts by their content. For nudity there are already algorithms, and I'm sure other shocking content could be tagged in a similar way as well. Last step: give everybody a settings panel with what they want to see, except for kids, they can't see anything that isn't according to the PG-[age] regulations.
That makes it completely PC :)