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To be fair, do you want a Facebook censorship board?
by Navarr 10y ago
To be fair, do you want a Facebook censorship board?
- JimmyAustin 10y agoThe Facebook editorial board already existed, and got decried as a liberal conspiracy. I really don't see how Facebook wins here.
- chiefalchemist 10y agoWhy does it have to win? Maybe it's wrong on all counts?
- veidr 10y agoFacebook doesn't win. Which is good. Because it would be sad if collaborators in human oppression on the largest scale still happening in the modern era were the winners.
- rhizome 10y agoWhat would it mean, what would it look like, for Facebook to "win here?"
- rmc 10y agoThat already exists. Just try posting a photo of a female nipple.
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- omouse 10y agoAs mentioned, it already exists and it's not democratic and you can't complain about it or anything. Completely useless fascist censorship board.
- catalinbraescu 10y agoYou seem to believe "fascist" is the opposite of "democratic". How would you call a Communist state? Democratic? Fascist?
- felipeerias 10y agoFacebook is already deciding what you see, that's a fundamental part of their business model. An editorial board deciding which stories get promoted is nothing different from what they already do. The more fundamental problem is that Facebook makes it far easier and more profitable to run a cheap website stuffed with completely made-up stories than an actual newspaper, because it is much easier to catch people's attention with an outrageous fake headline than with boring real news.
- zo1 10y agoAgreed. They already decided a long time ago to "manipulate" what you saw. That was the point where they decided to not simply show the latest items for all the pages you "liked", but to rather promote the "popular" ones based on what your "interests" are. Now that they did that, then all of a sudden "oh fake news". If they had just kept it to latest first, from only the pages you liked, then there would be no way for them to "wiggle in" such a thing as "fake news". On the one, the person's choices dictate what they see later on, and on the other Facebook has to "tune" things to your liking. That's why there is such an dark-pattern on Facebook when you try to "UnLike" a page. I urge everyone to go give it a try and tell me if it's intuitive or obvious.