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Facebook Execs Nixed Employees' Plan to Quell Hate Speech: Report

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Re: Facebook Execs Nixed Employees' Plan to Quell Hate Speech: Report

#11

> like a user who posted an image of a chimpanzee with the caption, "Here's one of Michelle Obama." Anecdotally, I’ve seen these sort of images shared across Facebook many times and it was a large part of a decision to step back my usage of the product around 2016, including having my account deactivated for several years This topic is commonly viewed in a political lens (free speech, etc) but I view it in a free mar…

and you survived to tell the story. the "hate speech" didnt kill you

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post #5

I think preciously few people necessarily dislike the idea of quelling hate speech. The real problem is who gets to decide what classifies as hate speech. When there is a large contingent of america chanting nonsense like "silence is violence" one moment and "punch terfs" the next moment, I'd rather that nobody gets to make the decision of what does and does not constitute hate speech.

Thank you

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> so that hate speech against Black, Jewish, LGBTQ, Muslim, and multiracial people would be taken down through an automated system

And what happens when the system takes down quotes from the Quran--which Muslims believe to be not only the inspired, but perfect word of God--as "hate speech."

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post #14

> so that hate speech against Black, Jewish, LGBTQ , Muslim , and multiracial people would be taken down through an automated system And what happens when the system takes down quotes from the Quran--which Muslims believe to be not only the inspired, but perfect word of God--as "hate speech."

I dont think people disagree that antiquated religious texts do contain a lot of hate speech

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post #14

> so that hate speech against Black, Jewish, LGBTQ , Muslim , and multiracial people would be taken down through an automated system And what happens when the system takes down quotes from the Quran--which Muslims believe to be not only the inspired, but perfect word of God--as "hate speech."

I dont think people disagree that antiquated religious texts do contain a lot of hate speech

The majority of the population of Earth does, but ok…

Re: Facebook Execs Nixed Employees' Plan to Quell Hate Speech: Report

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post #14

> so that hate speech against Black, Jewish, LGBTQ , Muslim , and multiracial people would be taken down through an automated system And what happens when the system takes down quotes from the Quran--which Muslims believe to be not only the inspired, but perfect word of God--as "hate speech."

The so-called Calcutta Quran case never made it out of the first court so in India at least there’s no legal basis for this

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post #11

> like a user who posted an image of a chimpanzee with the caption, "Here's one of Michelle Obama." Anecdotally, I’ve seen these sort of images shared across Facebook many times and it was a large part of a decision to step back my usage of the product around 2016, including having my account deactivated for several years This topic is commonly viewed in a political lens (free speech, etc) but I view it in a free mar…

and you survived to tell the story. the "hate speech" didnt kill you

The OP is talking about this from Facebook's perspective, not their own, hence the "free market" angle. A user deactivating their account is a negative for Facebook. Anecdotally I've long felt the same way: I have an active account still but very rarely log in because whenever I do my news feed is largely filled with nonsense I have little interest in seeing, rather than actual updates from friends and family.

I see it as similar to an e-mail provider that doesn't try to tackle spam: it's a difficult problem to solve and they're welcome to ignore it. But if they do they'll find more and more users abandoning their service.

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> like a user who posted an image of a chimpanzee with the caption, "Here's one of Michelle Obama." Anecdotally, I’ve seen these sort of images shared across Facebook many times and it was a large part of a decision to step back my usage of the product around 2016, including having my account deactivated for several years This topic is commonly viewed in a political lens (free speech, etc) but I view it in a free mar…

I don't see any inflammatory garbage. It's all a matter of which friends and pages you follow.

Re: Facebook Execs Nixed Employees' Plan to Quell Hate Speech: Report

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post #11

> like a user who posted an image of a chimpanzee with the caption, "Here's one of Michelle Obama." Anecdotally, I’ve seen these sort of images shared across Facebook many times and it was a large part of a decision to step back my usage of the product around 2016, including having my account deactivated for several years This topic is commonly viewed in a political lens (free speech, etc) but I view it in a free mar…

and you survived to tell the story. the "hate speech" didnt kill you

If you’re trying to make a point, please state it clearly instead of providing a snarky one liner, which is against HN guidelines
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