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I feel for the victims, and have no love for Facebook, but come on. Facebook is supposed to retain specialists that can interpret and act on something said in
by jstarfish 3y ago
I feel for the victims, and have no love for Facebook, but come on.
Facebook is supposed to retain specialists that can interpret and act on something said in niche languages on their platform, in bad faith? Failing to do so becomes facilitation of genocide?
They can't just act on it without verification; that leads to abuse reports being filed in bad faith. We saw it with DMCA, we see it again with angry ex-Redditors. You lose control of your business when you let the customer run the till, but advocacy for letting lunatics run the asylum seems to be the expectation these days.
Facebook is just a digital bathroom wall. I don't know what half the graffiti on most walls say, but failing to paint over it doesn't make the owner culpable for gang violence. The graffiti is illegal. It was illegally painted on his wall. If he can't deal with it right now, or ever, it doesn't make him an honorary member of MS-13.
The extension of this is people moving to obfuscation and encryption. Must Facebook now hire an army of cryptographers/stenographers to crack every bespoke cipher and find every hidden message encoded on their platform? Facebook may have deep pockets, but these expectations don't scale for anybody else in the same position. They'd be better tooled than the NSA, and I don't think anybody actually wants that.
It sucks, but at least attribute blame where it's deserved-- to the people posting and acting on threats.