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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by dmoy on Friday November 25, 2016 @01:54PM (#13038997)
That's really not a fair comparison. What they are saying is actually:

1) "We can't automate the stopping of fake news without hiring an army of trained human censors"

2) "Although since China already has an army of trained censors, it'd be easy to fix stuff for them with an API"

Edit, forgot to save, sorry:

The implication on #1 there is that for Facebook the cost is not worth it. Whether or not you agree with that is fine, but it's incredibly unfair to call it the same problem as China's censorship. It would cost Facebook something like $2-4 billion per year in labor to deploy a similar solution for just the united States

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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by rhizome on Friday November 25, 2016 @04:51PM (#13040121)
Taking a stab at a naive calculation, $3B worth of $60K/yr positions is 50,000 employees.
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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by dmoy on Friday November 25, 2016 @08:18PM (#13041151)
Yup except China uses like 100k workers for ~200m online users, so scale up a bit.
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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by rhizome on Saturday November 26, 2016 @12:07AM (#13041830)
At a rate of 0.5%, the job is going to have to be extremely unskilled in order to get enough hires.
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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by dmoy on Saturday November 26, 2016 @02:34AM (#13042320)
It's a rate of 0.007% for China by virtue of their 1.5b population.
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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by rhizome on Saturday November 26, 2016 @02:47AM (#13042374)
0.5% of online users.
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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by dmoy on Saturday November 26, 2016 @01:07PM (#13045008)
Right but they don't have to hire from only that pool.
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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by rhizome on Saturday November 26, 2016 @05:53PM (#13046453)
I think I'm not being clear. Using the China example, the number of censors required is 0.5% of the number of online users regardless of whether the censors are members of the "online users" group or not.
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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by dmoy on Saturday November 26, 2016 @08:17PM (#13047136)
Maybe, it could be that it doesn't scale linearly though. All I know is where the numbers are at now (or actually, a year or two ago).
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Re:Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship by MacsHeadroom on Saturday November 26, 2016 @02:34PM (#13045450)
A $60k/yr employee costs more like $100k-$140k/yr, depending on the area. Taxes, Benefits, insurance, office space, equipment, support employment (HR, Legal, etc).
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