Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shooter videos

Re:Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shoo... by burfog on Sunday March 17, 2019 @07:15PM (#19417397)

Well, do we want to catch people harming children, or do we just want to not be aware of it? We have an out-of-sight-out-of-mind policy right now. Reporting is discouraged, because then all your stuff would be seized as evidence and you'd be under suspicion. Lots of people probably destroy computers if they accidentally come across the stuff, since mere possession of the data is an offense.

If it spreads around, then somebody might recognize a perpetrator. I suppose we could get fancy, with a rule that you can keep it if you register it. That would make it far easier to track things back to the source and then see if anybody is getting harmed.

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Re:Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shoo... by anigbrowl on Sunday March 17, 2019 @08:15PM (#19417697)

We have an out-of-sight-out-of-mind policy right now.

Then how am I able to provide you with data collected by law enforcement authorities demonstrating decade-long trends, along with information on the methodology employed to collect it?

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Re:Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shoo... by burfog on Sunday March 17, 2019 @08:50PM (#19417842)

That is only about possession of what is sometimes evidence of abuse, and only about people who were caught with it.

The interesting numbers are how many cases of abuse are hidden from law enforcement because:

1. people won't recognize abusers they know because they won't dare look

2. people would rather destroy a computer than deal with unfriendly police procedures

Oh, BTW, one other problem I didn't mention. The current situation is very easy to use for framing a person. This has been determined to be the case in some divorce cases, and of course an unknown of innocent people were unable to prove that they were framed.

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Re:Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shoo... by anigbrowl on Sunday March 17, 2019 @09:39PM (#19418069)

You seem to be more interested in your hypotheticals than engaging with empirical data or learning about the rather extensive infrastructure that already exists to address the problem.

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Re:Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shoo... by burfog on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:32AM (#19418696)

I think you missed the point that I disagree about what is and isn't a problem. I think your "increase proliferations" wording refers to people having harmless data, not causing actual abuse. It should also be clear that not all abuse is caught, and that discouraging people from reporting things is unhelpful to actual victims.

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Re:Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shoo... by anigbrowl on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:39PM (#19426079)

YOu're asserting that it's harmless, I'm asserting that the existence of a market creates demand for more and absolutely does lead to actual abuse. I know people who were raped as children specifically to make child pornography and the evidence of whose suffering is traded among people who enjoy watching that. Oddly enough they don't seem to share your perspective.

You haven't provided any evidence for your claim about discouraging people from reporting things. I think most police departments have a procedure for dealing with the situation where someone calls to say 'hello I bought an old laptop/hard disk/whatever and it seems to have child porn on it, please advise.'

Waht do you know, there is even an official tipline specially set up for that purpose in the USA: https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/report-violations#repo...

By all means continue to explore your imagination unencumbered by facts, but don't be surprised if people who live in the real world end up drawing different conclusions from yourself.

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