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The standards should fall wherever society wants them. If Facebook is upset about that, they can exit the markets.
by DSingularity 6y ago
The standards should fall wherever society wants them. If Facebook is upset about that, they can exit the markets.
- bzb3 6y agoThat means going for the lowest denominator.
- paulryanrogers 6y agoIf they want to profit from the whole of society then they'll have to strike a balance that minimizes offences which will drive away too many users or attract too many regulators.
- stale2002 6y agoOk... And FB and their users are apart of society. Since they are the ones directly effected, their opinion on this matters.
- livueta 6y agoAh, yes, standards set by society - you mean laws? I'm a big Facebook detractor generally but this illustrates why their problems are hard. In the case of the US, most of the calls to "respect society's standards" seem to mean "listen to me and mine as the sole arbiters of what society wants" instead of anything to do with actual objective standards, turning public policy from a matter of established process of law into a circus where loudness wins. If you want speech banned, campaign to change actual law rather than trying to use platforms like FB as an end-run around legal protections. Honestly, the whole mess is why having massive centralized platforms at all is a mistake. Moderation is so hilariously fractal that comminutes placed close to the sources of local standards, who do not attempt to be accountable to nobody and everybody at once, and content-agnostic protocols, which defer the hard decisions around moderation to those nodes, are better-placed to deal with the complexities of reality.