Why can't I just stop watching something I find offensive, at most flagging it for later review (to determine if it is actively dangerous in some way) rather than living in a world where some stupidly biased "intelligence" (whether human or artificial) gets to determine what is "offensive"? Facebook already is a massive filter bubble, where my own biases bias who I allow as friends: isn't that enough to ensure that I effectively only see content I find reasonable?

I mean, really: I do not find nudity offensive, and nor do most of the people I know (I would say "any", but maybe someone is just keeping quiet). I definitely never found breast feeding offensive, and would even say I find the notion that Facebook had previously been removing such content and calling it offensive itself extremely offensive (and it isn't clear to me that they have truly stopped, though their official policy is now to accept it).

Are they really going to take the time to correctly retrain all their algorithms to deal with policy shifts? Is it even correct to try to do this "live" given that context later in the video might change peoples' ideas about what the content was showing, where what looked like exhibitionism turns out to be a political protest? The difference between a live "unedited" news broadcast (as is being increasingly done: the local TV station and newspaper where I live have been using Facebook live streaming) and an opinion segment or narrative is also subtle: will it flag and block live footage of a riot as "violence"? What happens when the algorithm says "President Trump's State of the Union is hate speech"? Will they be proudly letting it stop the stream?

Gah.