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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by crushcrashcrush on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:18PM (#19503213)
The only reason the valley has trumpeted the "we're just a platform" is that it was better for the bottom line and shareholders. Now it no longer is.
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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by skybrian on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:27PM (#19503335)
You make this just about greed when it's also about toil. Nobody likes dealing with the filth that some people share. The armies of content moderators that have to deal with it don't have happy jobs.

This is a category of labor that formerly wasn't necessary, and yet somehow now it is. Why is that? How can we make it go away?

Perhaps the monetary incentives will provide motivation to solve it.

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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by ikeyany on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:24PM (#19503284)
Reddit went through this too.
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Re:Facebook to ban white nationalist content by anth_anm on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:26PM (#19503329)
Reddit still allows white supremacists and other assorted awful things to go through their platform.
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