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Secret, the Popular Message-Sharing App, Comes Under Fire Over Cyberbullying

• zcdziura 12y ago
  Perhaps this is an unpopular opinion that I hold, but I don't feel that it is the company's responsibility to dictate to their users how they should use the company's product (within reason, of course). Now, bullying and cyberbullying are a serious problem, and there's no doubt about that. However, cyberbullying doesn't occur because apps like Secret exist; there are other forces at play here. Now, should companies like Secret ENABLE cyberbullying to happen? Of course not! But should they sensor what goes up onto their service? I don't think so. There are features which they can implement (if they haven't already) which can be used to allow users to flag certain content as being abusive, and repeat offenders can be permabanned. That seems like a more appropriate course of action from Secret, instead of sensoring what their users put up on their service, which is what many critics seems to be advocating for. Now, I haven't used Secret in a very long time (doesn't seem all that popular with my group of friends), but I'm fairly certain that they provide users the ability to flag inappropriate content. I could be wrong, of course, and I'm open correction on this.