Re:Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy
by amanaplanacanal on Friday September 16, 2022 @06:09AM
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Removing incitements to violence seems like a good thing, and I would guess their customers (the advertisers) fully support it. The fact that they do it so badly is entirely on them.
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Re:Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy
by nradov on Friday September 16, 2022 @09:12AM
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Is removing incitements to violence always a good thing? Apparently Facebook makes an exception when it comes to violence against the Russians invading Ukraine.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-facebook-inst...
I do support the right of Ukrainians to defend their country. But I'm not comfortable with giving social media corporate employees the power to decide which violence is good and which is bad.
Re:Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy
by icare_1er on Friday September 16, 2022 @10:23AM
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FB has literally unbanned groups that were considered nearly terrorists several years ago (Azov), the second they became anti-Putin.
Goes to show how grotesque those making the rules on Good and Bad are - I am sure we can find similar stuff regarding Saudi Arabia, which is pretty much a Daesh that succeeded at gaining power and keeping it.
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Re:Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy
by Bakary on Friday September 16, 2022 @08:25AM
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Censorious ideology is a minor point compared to the overall picture. Haphazard content removal wouldn't be an issue if the space wasn't controlled by a handful of private companies that routinely abuse their power.
Re:Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy
by michaelmrose on Friday September 16, 2022 @08:24AM
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You needn't read or analyze everything just the stuff that is reported and since 90% of the problem is 1% of individuals if you can keep the same old folks from coming back you will ultimately have less to process. The logical thing is that the kind of human moderation that they actually needs costs money and you acquire said funds by charging monthly. This has the side effect of making it easy to permanently ban problem children via their address and or method of payment. One need not take prepaid cards either.