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> It’s a grim week for Meta. The company formerly known as Facebook, and before that Facemash, “designed to evaluate the attractiveness of female Harvard studen
by dangoodmanUT 2y ago
> It’s a grim week for Meta. The company formerly known as Facebook, and before that Facemash, “designed to evaluate the attractiveness of female Harvard students,”
Wow if that's the opener, I expect the rest to be SUPER emotionally charged
- dangoodmanUT 2y ago> CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that slurs are okay on their platforms, added a pro-Trump UFC boss to their board The next paragraph...
- koops 2y agoIsn't that in fact true? Emotional or not.
- mrits 2y agoNo, he literally never said or even implied slurs are ok
- mikeyouse 2y agoTheir new moderation training material explicitly said slurs (calling immigrants filth, calling masculine looking females trannies, etc) are ok… https://theintercept.com/2025/01/09/facebook-instagram-meta-hate-speech-content-moderation/ https://theintercept.com/2025/01/09/facebook-instagram-meta-...
- mrits 2y agoNo they didn't.
- foogazi 2y agoI thought they were a accepting slurs against trans and immigrants Haven’t tried it yet
- mock-possum 2y agoI mean he did say that transphobia is specifically protected speech so
- skellington 2y agoYou don't get to shut down speech by just adding -phobia to everything you have a strong opinion about.
- anileated 2y agoIn United States a private business is free to shut down any speech it likes on its infrastructure/premises*. If you look closely, you will find that most or all do it to some speech or other. The revealing part is specifically what speech gets shut down. In other words, unless you believe Facebook is part of State or acts on behalf of the State, “you don’t get to shut down hate speech” is mereley your sentiment, not something Constitution requires from them. If Mark Z actually called hate speech “protected speech”, it is something he is free to do, but Facebook is also completely free to suppress hate speech. * https://www.nyclu.org/commentary/column-applying-constitution-private-actors-new-york-law-journal https://www.nyclu.org/commentary/column-applying-constitutio...
- skellington 2y agoYes, we all know the "it's a private business they can do whatever they want" when they are suppressing right-leaning speech and then "social media needs to be regulated" when they allow right-leaning speech arguments. "Billionaire oligarchs" only became a problem when a few of them became neutral or moderately right-wing.
- perth 2y agoI mean you can be a local bar that hosts KKK rallies and sure that’s a legal thing to do (in USA), but you will still end up being known for that, probably by many names that don’t just include “phobia”. And of course, the impact of bringing together a KKK rally inherently impacts your local community since you may begin to see things like lynchings in the news or in person.
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- moogly 2y agoI dunno, it's put rather matter-of-factly.
- polygon87 2y agoDoes every article about IBM need “IBM, which once helped facilitate the Holocaust, …”?
- anileated 2y agoIf IBM’s original product was “designed to facilitate the Holocaust”, then every article about IBM darn better lead with that. In case of Facebook, it was originally designed literally to compare the attractiveness of female students; but no, it’s not even remotely as bad, and comparing it to the Holocaust trivializes an incident where masses of people were murdered in an industrial fashion.
- derangedHorse 2y agoFace mash was far from Facebook’s “initial product.” It was made before Facebook was even a thing (company or app). The purpose of each application, Face Mash and Facebook, was different and the only reason people call it a “precursor” is because it was made by Zuckerberg before he made Facebook.
- anileated 2y agoYou’re correct, there is a distinction since it is technically another product.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoTaking a huge shit in the morning is a precursor to breakfast
- lnkl 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum
- alvah 2y agoThe rest of the article did not disappoint!
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y agoIt is what it is. History cannot be changed. Matter-of-factly, unemotionally, the website/company was based on "theft" from the beginning: Zuckerberg did not seek license (permission) to use Harvard's student profiles to create "Facemash".
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