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Re:Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death ca... by nindalf on Friday March 11, 2022 @12:50PM (#30643369)
Feel free to suggest different rules. Start with the publicly accessible “Community Standards” and edit it to the point where they are consistent and comprehensive in your book with no special cases. We’ll wait.

In reality what you might find is that even some obvious rules like “no naked pictures of obvious minors (<10 years) should be allowed” have exceptions to it. And if you can’t reason why this is true (I’m thinking of a specific picture), then at least admit the task you’re implying is trivial is harder than it looks.

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Re:Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death ca... by themgt on Friday March 11, 2022 @01:13PM (#30643729)
"Completely objective and fair rules are impossible, so Calvinball it is" is not a credible stance.

Facebook's big recent decisions have been:

* posting news articles about Hunter Biden's laptop: banned

* posting about possible Covid lab leak: banned

* calling for death of Russians: thumbs up

* praising Azov neo-Nazis: thumbs up

Their consistent and comprehensive principle is just serving TPTB. Let's not dress it up beyond that.

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Re:Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death ca... by xdennis on Friday March 11, 2022 @01:18PM (#30643811)
> calling for death of Russians: thumbs up

As always, disinformation. It's specifically for "Russian invaders".

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Re:Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death ca... by KerrAvon on Friday March 11, 2022 @01:10PM (#30643687)
I don't necessarily disagree with your larger point, but I don't think the picture you're thinking of is actually worth making a hypothetical exception for, FWIW. The genre of which it is a member is censored regularly on all platforms. Just be consistent and point to the rules and live with the ridicule.
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Re:Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death ca... by nindalf on Friday March 11, 2022 @02:43PM (#30645059)
Well you are ok with that picture being censored but many others aren’t. You’re proving my point, it’s impossible to please everyone. Everyone has different standards.

- Fury over Facebook 'Napalm girl' censorship (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37318031.amp).

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