Facebook apologises for removing breast cancer awareness video
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Re: Facebook apologises for removing breast cancer awareness video
#2I understand why it is this way. "Perfect is the enemy of good" and all that. It's probably much cheaper to run a system that is imperfect.
But it bothers me that we leave so much of our discourse to such imperfect systems.
Re: Facebook apologises for removing breast cancer awareness video
#3Just 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 'case-by-case' basis instead of a healthy review of their policies.
The main criterion seems to be 'is the internet raising a large enough stink'? If yes then restore the image.
Re: Facebook apologises for removing breast cancer awareness video
#4Just 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…
> The main criterion seems to be 'is the internet raising a large enough stink'? If yes then restore the image.
That's the same criterion for taking things down though.
Re: Facebook apologises for removing breast cancer awareness video
#5Just 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…
> The main criterion seems to be 'is the internet raising a large enough stink'? If yes then restore the image. That's the same criterion for taking things down though.
Actually, in the best case, the criterion for taking things down is a few people silently and anonymously clicking the report button.
In the worst case, it's their NSFW algorithms identifying a nipple in the picture, with no regard for context.
Re: Facebook apologises for removing breast cancer awareness video
#6Just 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…
I for one welcome our new robotic overlords and agree that it isnuncomfortable to be reminded that my favorite sexual objects are in fact meant for other purposes as well.
I wonder if seeing breast feeding triggers a fundamental paradox in us humans. Seeing as how we're the only primates who have boobs even when not breast feeding. Originally boobs meant that this femal is not available for sex. In humans it means that she is very available BUT ALSO that she isn't.
This is confusing and this conflict causes discomfort.
Re: Facebook apologises for removing breast cancer awareness video
#7Just 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…
P0rn is illegal in many countries. Facebook wants to do business in these countries, hence aggressive filtering and minimum liability.
Re: Facebook apologises for removing breast cancer awareness video
#8Just 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…
It also shows just how bad Facebook is at machine learning (among the other top machine learning companies). They can't even distinguish "cartoon breasts" from real breasts?
Just look at this video, and see how ridiculous it is that Facebook had an automated tool that would take that down:
Re: Facebook apologises for removing breast cancer awareness video
#9Just 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
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