Facebook is bad at moderating in English. In Arabic, it’s a disaster
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#2This is true for all other languages. Hindi language content on Facebook is pretty much unmoderated with all that you can expect from it.
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#3This is just another case of "police cracks down on Mafia" when it's one section of the Mafia turning in another disfavored section of the Mafia to the police.
I've yet to see a recent complaint about inconsistent and discriminatory Facebook censorship say that Facebook should just stop censoring. It's always "Facebook isn't doing enough to censor against the right and in favor of black people and LGBTQ".
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#4I knew a Saudi student who went to a hunting trip in Canada, posted a video of them speaking Arabic with guns, and got permabanned on fb.
It was in 2010.
Social media companies were said to be making a lot of employment in North Africa just because they were obliged by EU to mow down "terrorist" content long before IS, and they need megatons of Arabic speakers just for that.
It came to my mind, maybe underpaid Moroccans, and Tunisians just didn't like rich Saudi kids having good time?
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#5This is just another case of "police cracks down on Mafia" when it's one section of the Mafia turning in another disfavored section of the Mafia to the police. I've yet to see a recent complaint about inconsistent and discriminatory Facebook censorship say that Facebook should just stop censoring. It's always "Facebook isn't doing enough to censor against the right and in favor of black people and LGBTQ".
>the right [...] black people and LGBTQ
A clever elision of what each group mentioned is actually saying... Which one is most like the Mafia, I wonder?
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#6Not as serious as the "Al-Aqsa" issue in the post, but if you post a picture of Momo, a sculpture by a Japanese artist, to your own timeline, you get a two day block. I think a lot of their moderation system might be a bundle of crude if-statements thrown up to put out temporary fires they're dealing with.
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#7If they do it through translation it'd be hilarious. When we get tech support queries in languages like Arabic we pass them through Google Translate and the result always makes me think of this:
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#8Not as serious as the "Al-Aqsa" issue in the post, but if you post a picture of Momo, a sculpture by a Japanese artist, to your own timeline, you get a two day block. I think a lot of their moderation system might be a bundle of crude if-statements thrown up to put out temporary fires they're dealing with.
The Momo thing was a pretty big deal -- Just calling it a random Japanese sculpture is ignoring everything that happened around it on various social media outlets. I can understand why Facebook would remove references to it pretty much forever. Its fame was never tied to anything but the controversy.
Are there other examples of autobans that are more egregious? Just curious.
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#9Moderating is so hard it will probably the first application for AI with generalized intelligence.
Re: Facebook is bad at moderating in English. In Arabic, it’s a disaster
#10Moderating is so hard it will probably the first application for AI with generalized intelligence.
It feels like an impossible goal.