Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence

Re:Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence by mythrowaway1234 on Sunday May 21, 2017 @04:03PM (#14388962)

My first thought on reading this makes me deeply empathize with the people that have to deal with these questions. It must be extremely draining and emotionally difficult work, probably traumatic. Just having to write a policy about what constitutes acceptable nudity in the context of the Holocaust by itself is pretty terrible. And yet it's important for people to see those images. Just like the controversy over the image of the naked Vietnamese girl running down a road with napalm burns. That too is an important image. But to allow that image, someone has to look at these kinds of images and decide what's ok and what's not. I can't even imagine all the disturbing shit one has to look at to come up with those rules (which will be imperfect).

I can't imagine that there are many other single entities that have to deal with the ugliness of humanity at the scale of FB.

The sheer volume of content is unlike anything else humans have ever seen before. By comparison news outlets like the Guardian have the luxury to struggle with these kinds of questions on a 1-off basis.

Given all that I have to wonder how government regulations would make this better?

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Re:Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence by henrikschroder on Sunday May 21, 2017 @05:52PM (#14389445)

> Given all that I have to wonder how government regulations would make this better?

No no, that would impact free speech.

You want all large user content-handling companies to be able to tell users wanting to talk about X to go somewhere else, and it then has to be legal for those users to make that somewhere else themselves. There's enough idiots screaming about free speech on private platforms already, we don't want more of them.

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