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Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules

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Re: Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules

#21
>“We are not actually doing what we say we do publicly,” said the confidential review.

Why do we even have the collective fiction where corporate messaging around a sore topic is treated as trustworthy? Especially with companies that we know lie all the fucking time?

Re: Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules

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post #18

I don't understand the way their enforcement works. I've reported videos of people literally setting live animals on fire and been told there was no violation, but my wife called someone a "loser" and got a week long ban.

I suspect it is automated. A computer can easily flag calling someone a loser. Not sure if FB has burning animals as a automated flag yet.

Re: Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules

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Unfortunately Facebook has no choice. If you do not make your platform appealing for popular people you will have a hard time attracting their followers there.

How unfortunate it is that such a thing is seen as a "rock and a hard place". Making less money might just be the worst thing possible for a corporation like Facebook.

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#26

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" Animal Farm - George Orwell

Facebook is the most explicitly duplicitious sociopathic company in the tech sector. Many companies are sociopathic, especially as you get into pure finance companies like PE firms, but few are as duplicitous as Facebook.

That's why they're on my "wouldn't work for them if they wee the last tech company in the entire world" list. That list isn't long, but, FB is near the top of it.

Re: Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules

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I will jump on this bandwagon and say color me not surprised.

The issue is emblematic of a bigger issue though. General trust in our society is generally down. It stretches beyond the sectors normally understood as BS ( advertising, HR come to mind ), but moved to corrupt just about everything else out there. We are a point, where the only organization that is somewhat trusted is military.

That is not a good state of affairs.

Re: Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules

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post #18

I don't understand the way their enforcement works. I've reported videos of people literally setting live animals on fire and been told there was no violation, but my wife called someone a "loser" and got a week long ban.

This is actually discouraging non-brigades from reporting. I reported obviously spam accounts and got the same feedback after a few weeks. Now I don't bother.

Brigades on the other hand have the motivation to play the numbers.

Re: Facebook has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules

#30

Well of course. Why wouldn't they? Money and friends aside, they have to do it for people who wield power like China's upper echelon or the NSA. If they say no, they will be shut down in those markets.

Facebook is already shut down in China, I’m not sure what you mean.
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