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To illustrate your point, Facebook censored the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo taken June 8, 1972 with crying children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, after an ae
by gvb 10y ago
To illustrate your point, Facebook censored the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo taken June 8, 1972 with crying children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places.
That photo violates a several of Facebook "ban" rules, but is an exception to the rules. After much outcry, Facebook reversed their rule-based ban.
- tptacek 10y agoYes, this happened, and yes, it's dumb, but so what? Who here thinks HN would end up with that policy?
- rokosbasilisk 10y agoTo be fair, Im sure the person who posted it on facebook might have thought something similar.
- tptacek 10y agoThis seemed clever the first time I read it but now I'm not sure what it really says.
- StavrosK 10y agoIt probably wouldn't end up with that specific policy, but I'm reasonably certain it would end up with a policy that would have comparable edge cases.
- tptacek 10y agoWhy? What makes you certain of that? I'm not suggesting that Dan and Scott stop moderating, just that it's possible to make a clear, coherent statement about bigotry in the moderation guidelines.
- StavrosK 10y agoMy experience with moderating large communities and, mainly, my inability to define bigotry to any satisfactory degree. I certainly urge you to give it a go, maybe you'll be able to solve the problem for all of us. Hell, I can't even ballpark where your freedom to speak ends and my freedom to not feel bad starts.