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You're conflating outright lies with liking sportsball.
being a racist and enjoying baseball -- basically morally equivalent, right.
The whole concept of "community standards" for a worldwide communication channel strikes me as newspeak for centralized moral policing. Imagine the leading social network weren't facebook but vkontakte or weibo and they imposed their own standards on billions of people communicating with each other. Filtering should be a tool available to individuals and delegatable to groups that are aligned with their own standards…
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I see. I have a female friend in Vienna, she's said similar stuff to me. Things are getting bad there.
I live very close to Vienna, visit often, and things are perfectly fine. Safer than any US city I've been to.
"When asked, Facebook officials told us only immutable characteristics and traits that people are born with warrant special protection. Being a migrant is not such a trait, therefore freedom of speech takes priority." What about forced displacement? There are 10s of milions of forcibly displaced people around the world. It's not a small group compared to some other mentioned protected groups. If the basic idea is tha…
> “When asked, Facebook officials told us only immutable characteristics and traits that people are born with warrant special protection. Being a migrant is not such a trait, therefore freedom of speech takes priority." Oddly, to illustrate this, the article compared the words “Muslim” with “Migrant” noting one word is protected and one not. How is someone’s religious choice considered an immutable and “born with” tr…
That's absolutely not a result of using a moral standard as opposed to a legal standard.
I mean, that description is word-for-word applicable to legal standards, too.
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> The solution is not to trust anything you see on Facebook or to leave the platform entirely. Unfortunately neither does much good individually, because the real harm comes from the widespread acceptance of the lies.
Herd immunity?
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I see. I have a female friend in Vienna, she's said similar stuff to me. Things are getting bad there.
I live very close to Vienna, visit often, and things are perfectly fine. Safer than any US city I've been to.
In the 2000s, Glasgow was known as one of the most violent cities in Europe. The average homicide rate from 2000 to 2002 was 62.9 per million people.[1] The homicide rate for San Francisco in 2014 was 45 per 100k people.[2]
Glasgow at its worst was comparable to Oklahoma or Indiana today.[3] Compared to Europe, the US just isn't safe.
(Homicide rates aren't a perfect metric, especially for comparisons over large periods of time, since social decline can be masked by medical advances. But they're good enough for back-of-the-envelope comparisons of similar areas.)
[1] https://www.gov.scot/Publications/2005/12/13133031/30384
[2] http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-San-Francisco-Californi...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_homicid...
"When asked, Facebook officials told us only immutable characteristics and traits that people are born with warrant special protection. Being a migrant is not such a trait, therefore freedom of speech takes priority." What about forced displacement? There are 10s of milions of forcibly displaced people around the world. It's not a small group compared to some other mentioned protected groups. If the basic idea is tha…
> “When asked, Facebook officials told us only immutable characteristics and traits that people are born with warrant special protection. Being a migrant is not such a trait, therefore freedom of speech takes priority." Oddly, to illustrate this, the article compared the words “Muslim” with “Migrant” noting one word is protected and one not. How is someone’s religious choice considered an immutable and “born with” tr…
If the penalty for changing your religion is death, then it is almost immutable. And children usually don't have much choice about the religion, so it is almost as if they were born with it.
Just playing a Devil's advocate.
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Lazar, who was a minister back then went out to Vienna and made a video that said the city is flooded with migrants, it isn't safe and Budapest is much better, safer and such. Oh, also he didn't feel safe in it too.
I see. I have a female friend in Vienna, she's said similar stuff to me. Things are getting bad there.
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Why would Facebook have any content moderation obligations towards any government? It is their private platform, their rules. A community they built = their community standards. They can decide what content they allow on the platform. Governments imposing content rules upon private companies is a form of censorship. China is not a democracy. If a country doesn't like their citizens having free and unlimited access to…
>Why would Facebook have any content moderation obligations towards any government? This argument, if applied strictly, would allow any government to meddle in the affairs (say, influencing elections) of any other government simply by establishing ostensibly private companies that'd perform to their wishes, whether overtly or secretly. That being anti-democratic, there's clear need for limiting actions of private com…