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If a company is able to censor pictures of breast feeding mothers, or even worse, of iconic historical pictures[1] on an industrial scale, they should be damn w

If a company is able to censor pictures of breast feeding mothers, or even worse, of iconic historical pictures[1] on an industrial scale, they should be damn well able to moderate speech, which leads to genocide and mass murder and of which they're warned multiple times by a number of organisations. Fucking hypocrites doesn't even start to describe such behavior. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc

rhufdu 8y ago
FB sucks at nlp, only good at images.
mirko22 8y ago
It's not Facebook that leads to genocide, and you don't need Internet to commit ethnic cleansing... Otherwise Balkans would never happen.
- CaptainZapp 8y ago
  Sure, But being informed in 2013 that your platform is a conduit for mass killings and not doing much about it for five years unless it becomes a PR issue makes you culpable to the atrocity. EDIT : Clarified duration of inactivity
  - Nasrudith 8y ago
    I don't think Facebook could win that one. If they purged all instances of it they would be accused of concealing evidence of the genocide after the message got out - which it certainly would have. Like Syrian attrocity footage being taken down for policy violations. If they shut down during the time period they would be guilty of concealing and stopping pleas for help. Large scale moderation is a mug's game that ends only in being Kafkatrapped when it gets remotely political.
- selimthegrim 8y ago
  Balkans used TV and newspapers.
intended 8y ago
As much as I would like to join the FB bashing - I must not because it would be at the cost of solutions to the real problem. MODDING is HARD. It scales like shit, and people regularly find ways to screw with algorithms. It’s fractal complexity: you end up spending many many hours of compute for not moving the needle.
- vowelless 8y ago
  Facebook has about 45,000 employees today. I'm sure they can manage.
- orbifold 8y ago
  Which is why the first thing that occurred to basically anyone ethical is that it would be very hard to create a social media platform that it would be really hard to prevent it from being used for harm.

rhufdu 8y ago

FB sucks at nlp, only good at images.

mirko22 8y ago

It's not Facebook that leads to genocide, and you don't need Internet to commit ethnic cleansing... Otherwise Balkans would never happen.

CaptainZapp 8y ago
Sure, But being informed in 2013 that your platform is a conduit for mass killings and not doing much about it for five years unless it becomes a PR issue makes you culpable to the atrocity. EDIT : Clarified duration of inactivity
- Nasrudith 8y ago
  I don't think Facebook could win that one. If they purged all instances of it they would be accused of concealing evidence of the genocide after the message got out - which it certainly would have. Like Syrian attrocity footage being taken down for policy violations. If they shut down during the time period they would be guilty of concealing and stopping pleas for help. Large scale moderation is a mug's game that ends only in being Kafkatrapped when it gets remotely political.
selimthegrim 8y ago
Balkans used TV and newspapers.

intended 8y ago

As much as I would like to join the FB bashing - I must not because it would be at the cost of solutions to the real problem. MODDING is HARD. It scales like shit, and people regularly find ways to screw with algorithms. It’s fractal complexity: you end up spending many many hours of compute for not moving the needle.

vowelless 8y ago
Facebook has about 45,000 employees today. I'm sure they can manage.
orbifold 8y ago
Which is why the first thing that occurred to basically anyone ethical is that it would be very hard to create a social media platform that it would be really hard to prevent it from being used for harm.