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Too little too late? They've set the tone when they deleted a post made by the democratically elected leader of a country. That must surely be a tipping point?
> They've set the tone when they deleted a post made by the democratically elected leader of a country. I'm not sure it should matter whether it's a Prime Minister or a 22 year old college dropout.
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What's wrong with porn accounts on Twitter?
They are spam accounts, not porn accounts. Please don't tell me you can't tell the difference.
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Meaning, difficult to create a filter that "knows it when it sees it." http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/09/27/the-origins-of-justice-s...
Meaning FB is too fucking stupid to hire a person who knows the difference between child porn and iconic war images. It's not that rare to find people with common sense who can discern the two, even in the US. From what I understand, all these decisions get made by actual humans at FB and therefore have nothing to do with algorithms. The algorithm may flag the initial image, but it's the stupid human that approves th…
“While we recognize that this photo is iconic, it’s difficult to create a distinction between allowing a photograph of a nude child in one instance and not others." You'd have to be really fucking stupid for this to be difficult for you. I guess FB finally realized even their users are not all stupid enough to believe such a ridiculous statement.
It is absolutely not difficult to distinguish between a photo of burning children and a photo of a sex act. In fact, it's pretty ridiculous to characterize this photo as that "of a nude child."
Too little too late? They've set the tone when they deleted a post made by the democratically elected leader of a country. That must surely be a tipping point?
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I don't know, I can see their point. It's not like they can review every picture individually, so they're going to need a general policy. They messed up, received backlash, and changed their policy based on it.
> It's not like they can review every picture individually It's exactly like that. They could not allow pictures at all, not censor at all, or close down the business, too. Every option is open to them.
"Shut facebook down" is a bit ridiculous. Congrats, you're technically correct that it's an option open to them.
Can Facebook be held accountable under monopoly laws? They are too big and too influential for our own good.
I don't think that will work. We're gonna have to make new laws, the social media laws.
...Never thought I'd type that! :)
“While we recognize that this photo is iconic, it’s difficult to create a distinction between allowing a photograph of a nude child in one instance and not others." You'd have to be really fucking stupid for this to be difficult for you. I guess FB finally realized even their users are not all stupid enough to believe such a ridiculous statement.
I can't believe you're catching flak for this. It is absolutely not difficult to distinguish between a photo of burning children and a photo of a sex act. In fact, it's pretty ridiculous to characterize this photo as that "of a nude child."
Common sense tells me that the child's clothing was on fire, and she took those clothes off and ran away, and that's what we see a photo of. Fine.
But then... why is this photo described as a picture that contains flames? Not just here. That's always how it is described.
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Meaning, difficult to create a filter that "knows it when it sees it." http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/09/27/the-origins-of-justice-s...
Meaning FB is too fucking stupid to hire a person who knows the difference between child porn and iconic war images. It's not that rare to find people with common sense who can discern the two, even in the US. From what I understand, all these decisions get made by actual humans at FB and therefore have nothing to do with algorithms. The algorithm may flag the initial image, but it's the stupid human that approves th…
Even if it's flagged as an Iconic Image, you have to look at the context and see if it isn't posted by Jared from Subway.
Easier to auto flag than make a "waiting for glacially slow human" queue. (Esp. when one-million-moms has a protest van idling on the launch deck 24/7.)