Facebook apologises for removing breast cancer awareness video

Post by swsieber » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 7:07 PM UTC

protomyth wrote: post #57

sfaf wrote: post #54

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Do you remember the super bowl janet jackson fiasco? There were millions of people outraged by an accident and it almost wrecked her career. It's issue like this that mean that Facebook has to build aggressive adult filters that will have false positives. Because frankly the cost of a false negative is much much bigger than a false positive.

Millions? the FCC said there were 540,000 complaints from Americans[1] of which 65,000 came from the Parents Television Council[2]. The media cared more than the people. Heck, I wonder if we polled on it, how many think MTV's response was the bigger problem. 1) http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/2005-01-20-bowl-cover_x... from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVIII_halftime-sh... 2) I'll save my commentar…

Post by ptaipale » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 7:17 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #18

lukasm wrote: post #7

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P0rn is illegal in many countries. Facebook wants to do business in these countries, hence aggressive filtering and minimum liability.

Does Facebook have a representation in those countries? Besides that, we're not talking about porn. Unless you want to see breast cancer videos and mothers feeding their children as porn but that would be a perception error, the label simply does not apply.

Post by maxerickson » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 7:22 PM UTC

raverbashing wrote: post #9

jacquesm wrote: post #3

Just imagine the harm seeing a breast can do to a vulnerable young child. /s Facebook needs to literally grow up, removing porn is one thing but clinical images, mothers feeding their children and such should not even be up for discussion. It's a fine line between protecting your users from seeing offensive content and outright censorship, good to see them doing the right thing in this case, pity it is still on a 'ca…

Puritanism at its worse, also a reflection of upper management attitude I'm sure

Post by kajecounterhack » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 7:44 PM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #59

jacquesm wrote: post #3

Just imagine the harm seeing a breast can do to a vulnerable young child. /s Facebook needs to literally grow up, removing porn is one thing but clinical images, mothers feeding their children and such should not even be up for discussion. It's a fine line between protecting your users from seeing offensive content and outright censorship, good to see them doing the right thing in this case, pity it is still on a 'ca…

> pity it is still on a 'case-by-case' basis instead of a healthy review of their policies. They reviewed their policies over a year ago and images of breasts are allowed if they're breastfeeding, or after mastectomy (either reconstructed or tattooed or just left) or raising awareness. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/16/breastfeeding-fac... https://www.facebook.com/help/340974655932193 https://www.facebook.co…

Post by turblety » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 7:53 PM UTC