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Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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Post by iqanq »

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #30
mdoms wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I keep seeing this criticism and I don't get it. Presumably no one knew about his proclivities - not his parents, not his best friend, not his wife (if he had one), no one. It's obviously a very secretive part of his life and it's unreasonable to expect an employer to somehow know this about him. Meta employes 60,000 people according to a quick google search. I promise you there are plenty of Meta employees who have…

There aren't 60,000 employees who are the Head of Global Community Development. I'm not sure how far up the org chart that position is but I'm betting it's up in the top 1% of the company. It's not like this is the janitor or the person stocking the supply closet.

So what do you want, Facebook to hire dicks to investigate employees?

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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Post by draw_down »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #32

One interesting secondary effect: people are now saying Reddit (the company) is participating in a coverup, even to the extent of deleting accounts. https://twitter.com/simpbloodbath/status/1494464667032252432... I want to say “I doubt that’s true,” but that’s the thing about propaganda. It’s often hard to tell. EDIT: it seems true: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/suq88j/... Hmm. That’s not a gre…

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Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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Post by denlekke »

giraffe_lady wrote: post #10
denlekke wrote: post #5

anyone have more info on the group that makes these videos ? seems like they make decoy accounts and pretend to be underage targets but would like to learn more about their process: are they legit or would it be equivalent to police entrapment ?

What do you mean legit? Usable in court? Nothing else is really equivalent to "police entrapment" though. What makes that bad is that it's the police doing it, otherwise it's just asking a favor. If you can lie your way to getting someone to confess to a crime that's pretty much fine in the legal system, I think. Police do it all the time anyway and not even as some shady thing they have to hide it's just part of the…

great question ! i guess i was just wondering how the investigators make sure they aren't creating a situation that wouldn't exist otherwise. i couldn't find much info on the process. is the victim a real underage person ? was the victim already being contacted in a sexual way by this guy before the investigators got involved ?

having seen internet investigators get things wrong before and having an incentive to create the most sensational content possible, i just want to evaluate for myself how careful they are about what they're doing

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #32

One interesting secondary effect: people are now saying Reddit (the company) is participating in a coverup, even to the extent of deleting accounts. https://twitter.com/simpbloodbath/status/1494464667032252432... I want to say “I doubt that’s true,” but that’s the thing about propaganda. It’s often hard to tell. EDIT: it seems true: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/suq88j/... Hmm. That’s not a gre…

Even if this is true, given Reddit's history with the Boston Bombing debacle, I think it's entirely reasonable for the admins to take a hard line against accusations of serious criminal conduct from unknown sources. In any case the video is being widely discussed on Reddit now.

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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Post by tonymet »

spywaregorilla wrote: post #8
version_five wrote: post #7

The article tries to make the story all about Facebook, when it basically just boils down to the fact that a (alleged, there is still due process required) pervert worked there. They didn't know about him, they weren't harboring him or anything, it's just a low level employee doing something inappropriate.

The head of global community development is a low level employee?

title inflation. Banks have thousands of VPs

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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Post by Jabbles »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #32

One interesting secondary effect: people are now saying Reddit (the company) is participating in a coverup, even to the extent of deleting accounts. https://twitter.com/simpbloodbath/status/1494464667032252432... I want to say “I doubt that’s true,” but that’s the thing about propaganda. It’s often hard to tell. EDIT: it seems true: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/suq88j/... Hmm. That’s not a gre…

You present no evidence that this is true. You just fan the flames of outrage by assuming that a deleted post means a conspiracy. It seems far more likely that it was caught by a spam filter, or by a Reddit mod, or by a Reddit admin who mistook it for actual CP.

The users in that thread are somehow outraged that a breaking news event is not receiving massive worldwide coverage despite a) it not being very important and b) not having a particularly good source.

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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Post by spywaregorilla »

mdoms wrote: post #13
spywaregorilla wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The head of global community development is a low level employee?

> The head of global community development The article says "a head", not "the head", and refers to him as "manager of global community development". Of course I can't confirm this, but on one of the big Reddit threads on this topic an anonymous user claimed to be a Meta employee and looked this fella up, he managed 10 people. Just a low level people manager.

10 direct reports is very different from total downstream people. Feels unclear still

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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Post by sillysaurusx »

Jabbles wrote: post #46
sillysaurusx wrote: post #32

One interesting secondary effect: people are now saying Reddit (the company) is participating in a coverup, even to the extent of deleting accounts. https://twitter.com/simpbloodbath/status/1494464667032252432... I want to say “I doubt that’s true,” but that’s the thing about propaganda. It’s often hard to tell. EDIT: it seems true: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/suq88j/... Hmm. That’s not a gre…

You present no evidence that this is true. You just fan the flames of outrage by assuming that a deleted post means a conspiracy. It seems far more likely that it was caught by a spam filter, or by a Reddit mod, or by a Reddit admin who mistook it for actual CP. The users in that thread are somehow outraged that a breaking news event is not receiving massive worldwide coverage despite a) it not being very important a…

It literally says "[Removed by Reddit]" and that "Reddit sometimes deletes posts that violate the site's content policy."

I think maybe you're looking at the old version of reddit. On the new version, you can see the admin removal.

Hmm, no, it shows up on the old version too. The reason I posted it is that it's interesting and new; I haven't ever seen Reddit admins manually delete a post before. Certainly not something of this magnitude.

Reading over the content policy, the only rule that seems applicable is "Do not post or encourage the posting of sexual or suggestive content involving minors," or "Respect the privacy of others. Instigating harassment, for example by revealing someone’s personal or confidential information is not allowed." But both of those seem like a stretch.

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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Post by Jabbles »

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #30
mdoms wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I keep seeing this criticism and I don't get it. Presumably no one knew about his proclivities - not his parents, not his best friend, not his wife (if he had one), no one. It's obviously a very secretive part of his life and it's unreasonable to expect an employer to somehow know this about him. Meta employes 60,000 people according to a quick google search. I promise you there are plenty of Meta employees who have…

There aren't 60,000 employees who are the Head of Global Community Development. I'm not sure how far up the org chart that position is but I'm betting it's up in the top 1% of the company. It's not like this is the janitor or the person stocking the supply closet.

You might lose that bet. The article merely describes him as "a manager of global community development".
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