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Re:Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Tr... by nikivi on Monday June 01, 2020 @09:49AM (#23378391)
The truth is that they do censor content so words have no meaning.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Tr... by SV_BubbleTime on Monday June 01, 2020 @10:02AM (#23378520)
Agreed. I think the larger issue is the hypocrisy.

I think it’s totally possible Facebook can have been censoring things that don’t break their TOS for years, individuality at FB can be punished in favor of groupthink so attacking them for company actions isn’t right, I also don’t need to like FB in any way. The world is grey.

Re:Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Tr... by leesec on Monday June 01, 2020 @09:52AM (#23378411)
They censor content that would lead to immediate harm. How would you prove a Trump post can lead to immediate harm?

Is CNN immoral for reporting what he says? Is my Dad immoral for telling me what he says, becuz it might lead to harm?

Don't shoot the messenger.

Re:Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Tr... by elygre on Monday June 01, 2020 @10:01AM (#23378516)
Immediate harm. Like this iconic picture. Or breastfeeding.

https://www.google.no/amp/s/www.wired.com/2016/09/norway-rig...

Re:Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Tr... by leesec on Monday June 01, 2020 @10:29AM (#23378828)
This is exactly my point, clearly this is an instance of the algorithm innacurately censoring content. A bunch of things get swept up when you have to provide general guidelines for what to censor. And so you want them to censor more? And get even more wrong?

Or do you think that Nudity should just be prohibited and Facebook should be 4chan? Or maybe Facebook should hire 20 million people to decide picture by picture which ones are OK?

For the scale that Facebook is at, they do an amazing job of keeping the peace.

https://youtu.be/ATmQj787Jcc

Please watch this talk and realize Facebook is thinking really hard about what to allow, and how there are tradeoffs for any approach.

Re:Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Tr... by franckl on Monday June 01, 2020 @10:04AM (#23378544)
They censor more than just content that would lead to immediate harm : https://petapixel.com/2020/05/30/facebook-suspends-top-photo...