Facebook removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attacks within 24 hours
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Facebook removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attacks within 24 hours
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Re: Facebook removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attacks within 24 hours
#2One point five million uploads and counting. What a fucking waste of time, CPU cycles, and bandwidth. For Facebook, it is Whack-a-mole on steroids and meth.
Yet politicians still seem to want more, something along the lines of no anonymity / fully moderated social media. Not going to happen in free countries.
Re: Facebook removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attacks within 24 hours
#3One point five million uploads and counting. What a fucking waste of time, CPU cycles, and bandwidth. For Facebook, it is Whack-a-mole on steroids and meth. Yet politicians still seem to want more, something along the lines of no anonymity / fully moderated social media. Not going to happen in free countries.
Maybe that will be a rallying cry during the next civil war: "We're entitled to watch snuff films on Facebook!"
Re: Facebook removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attacks within 24 hours
#4Haven’t seen too many impassioned defenses of free speech after this. Strange!
Re: Facebook removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attacks within 24 hours
#5One point five million uploads and counting. What a fucking waste of time, CPU cycles, and bandwidth. For Facebook, it is Whack-a-mole on steroids and meth. Yet politicians still seem to want more, something along the lines of no anonymity / fully moderated social media. Not going to happen in free countries.
Well ultimately platforms like Facebook should be held responsible for the content they distribute in the same way that newspapers were. The safe harbor provisions should not apply to platforms that do way more than just passively host content. Google and Facebook should not be able to hide behind algorithms if the real world outcomes of these algorithms are as bad as they currently are. If they can't find a way to police their platform automatically, they will have to change something else. One thing would be to require people to provide proof of real identity, so that anyone that redistributes content like this can be sued and it gets much harder to create fake profiles.
The amount of harm these platforms have caused is at this point much larger than any positive value they provide.
Re: Facebook removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attacks within 24 hours
#6One point five million uploads and counting. What a fucking waste of time, CPU cycles, and bandwidth. For Facebook, it is Whack-a-mole on steroids and meth. Yet politicians still seem to want more, something along the lines of no anonymity / fully moderated social media. Not going to happen in free countries.
Maybe that will be a rallying cry during the next civil war: "We're entitled to watch snuff films on Facebook!"
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Re: Facebook removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attacks within 24 hours
#7One point five million uploads and counting. What a fucking waste of time, CPU cycles, and bandwidth. For Facebook, it is Whack-a-mole on steroids and meth. Yet politicians still seem to want more, something along the lines of no anonymity / fully moderated social media. Not going to happen in free countries.
> Not going to happen in free countries.
It happened in South Korea [1]. Fortunately, their courts eventually struck the law down. Got fantastically little coverage in western media.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-name_system#South_Korea
Re: Facebook removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attacks within 24 hours
#8One point five million uploads and counting. What a fucking waste of time, CPU cycles, and bandwidth. For Facebook, it is Whack-a-mole on steroids and meth. Yet politicians still seem to want more, something along the lines of no anonymity / fully moderated social media. Not going to happen in free countries.
They are probably looking for signatures and do this very easily and in an automated way.
It would be more fun to have an application that randomized the pitch, speed, volume and compression of a file, to REALLY make a moderator waste time, CPU and bandwidth.
Maybe we can make this standard given the prevalence of how people want to share.
Re: Facebook removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attacks within 24 hours
#9Apparently hosting this video is part of a violation of the law in New Zealand, population of 4 million.
For Facebook why not just block New Zealand? Looking for thoughtful responses
edit: seems there are reports of New Zealand ISPs blocking very many sites and web services. So for Facebook this is also a compelling option to just block the country and continue business as usual, focusing on important things like those user metrics. Censoring videos is an antiquated law forcing silly compliance burdens.
Re: Facebook removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attacks within 24 hours
#10Apparently hosting this video is part of a violation of the law in New Zealand, population of 4 million. For Facebook why not just block New Zealand? Looking for thoughtful responses edit: seems there are reports of New Zealand ISPs blocking very many sites and web services. So for Facebook this is also a compelling option to just block the country and continue business as usual, focusing on important things like tho…
Just having it saved on your pc is a crime there.