Re:Facebook to add 3k people to community operations team to...
by golergka on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @02:29PM
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That's because the real incentive FB and Twitter have is not to avoid PR fallout - and one side of american political spectrum has an upper hand in that battle.
Re:Facebook to add 3k people to community operations team to...
by hkmurakami on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @02:38PM
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For the demographic FB cares about, yes they lean left (which is what I am assuming you are getting at, and I agree with you that most of the time it's safe to just do left leaning PR). But Target openly supported bathroom access rights (left leaning) and have been met with a huge backlash from many right leaning markets which has materially impacted their bottom line with defections to Walmart and ecommerce.
It's not automatic who you need to PR for.
Re:Facebook to add 3k people to community operations team to...
by golergka on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @02:45PM
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Why the hell don't we just adopt individual bathroom stalls? This whole debate is so stupid I can't get behind any of the sides.
Re:Facebook to add 3k people to community operations team to...
by theseatoms on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @02:48PM
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Cost, probably.
I don't. They will, of course, push a particular agenda. In the worst possible way.
As we've seen with Twitter and other organizations, the ToS don't matter. Or at least, don't matter for the right people. The "bad people" get punished even if they don't violate the ToS. The "good people" don't get punished even if they do violate the ToS.
I'd be OK with even egregious ToS, if they were applied evenly. But as we've seen too often, they're not.
Whatever agenda FB and friends are peddling, it's hidden in the guise of "safety", and "fairness", and "community standards".