Normal people think it's not enough to not profit from it - you need to try very hard to remove it.
> Employees say that Twitter’s executives know about the problem, but the company has repeatedly failed to act.
> Twitter still has a problem with content that sexually exploits children. Executives are apparently well-informed about the issue, and the company is doing little to fix it.
https://www.theverge.com/23327809/twitter-onlyfans-child-sex...
https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/twitter-sued-for-allegedly-ref...
It doesn’t seem like there are good answers on how to resolve this issue sadly. I wish there was more transparency on how much these social media giants are spending on this issue, how much is removed per year and average time the content was accessible. It’s hard to judge on the outside the size and scope of this problem and the resources being thrown at it. And that doesn’t even get into the psychological issues that this has to do for the reviewers. This is truly some of the darkest stuff that humanity has and scale makes it hard to resolve.
Actually, the article highlights the internal working group of 84 employees that spent months evaluating Twitter's ability to suppress this exploitive material , concluding that Twitter had major problems in this area and submitting a list of recommendations to fix them that were mostly ignored.
> Aside from enabling in-app reporting of CSE, there appears to have been little progress on the group’s other recommendations.
> Employees say that Twitter’s executives know about the problem, but the company has repeatedly failed to act.
They banned Babylon Bee for literal satire but they knowingly allowed child sexual exploitation. They censor the Hunter Biden story and now “journalists” are mad when they get censored for doxing. Taylor Lorenz can dox Libs of TikTok with zero consequences — and yet Twitter was doing “the best job they could in difficult circumstances?”
Their priorities were so blatantly partisan. They blatantly ignored people calling for assassination of Supreme Court justices and ignored child exploitation but they found the time to censor conservative journalists and activists with profound regularity and intention. They even coordinated with the Katie Hobbs campaign to remove tweets at her request in her capacity as Secretary of State for Arizona.
Why would anyone defend this?