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The bigger question is, will they also ban content that would be construed as hate speech if you simply replaced the words “white people” with “[!white] people”
by xienze 8y ago
The bigger question is, will they also ban content that would be construed as hate speech if you simply replaced the words “white people” with “[!white] people”?
- draw_down 8y agoI guess that is a bigger question. And I think they’re free to answer it as they see fit.
- jitl 8y agoThis is not the bigger question.
- xienze 8y agoSure it is, because it sounds like Facebook isn’t committed to getting rid of all hate speech, just the kind that isn’t socially acceptable. Same with Twitter.
- terryschiavo22 8y agoCame here to say this. You can't have it both ways.
- fixermark 8y agoI think we're about to watch us have it both ways.
- ceejayoz 8y agoFacebook's rules have always been a bit bizarre here. https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-hate-speech-censorship-internal-documents-algorithms https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-hate-speech-cens... > One document trains content reviewers on how to apply the company’s global hate speech algorithm. The slide identifies three groups: female drivers, black children and white men. It asks: Which group is protected from hate speech? The correct answer: white men.
- cypherpunks01 8y agoFacebook certainly did not invent the idea of protected classes, USGOVT and tons of news/social companies all use the exact same notion when determining what constitutes illegal discrimination and disallowed hate speech.
- ceejayoz 8y agoI really don't think this is the same interpretation of "protected classes" as the US government uses: > White men are considered a group because both traits are protected, while female drivers and black children, like radicalized Muslims, are subsets, because one of their characteristics is not protected. I'm fairly certain a state that tried to ban female drivers or (openly via legislation; this next one definitely happens in practice) punish black children disproportionately would find themselves in hot water with the Feds.