Facebook asks users: should we allow men to ask children for sexual images?
Facebook has admitted it was a "mistake" to ask users whether paedophiles requesting sexual pictures from children should be allowed on its website.
On Sunday, the social network ran a survey for some users asking how they thought the company should handle grooming behaviour. "There are a wide range of topics and behaviours that appear on Facebook," one question began. "In thinking about an ideal world where you could set Facebook's policies, how would you handle the following: a private message in which an adult man asks a 14-year-old girl for sexual pictures."
The options available to respondents ranged from "this content should not be allowed on Facebook, and no one should be able to see it" to "this content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it".
A second question asked who should decide the rules around whether or not the adult man should be allowed to ask for such pictures on Facebook. Options available included "Facebook users decide the rules by voting and tell Facebook" and "Facebook decides the rules on its own".
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday March 08 2018, @08:36PM
Feminism will help with this, you know. At least, the sane kind, not the crazy separatists-and-TERF brigade. It's basically a branch of humanism deep down. How about we tell mother nature where to shove it, tell our DNA it's not the boss of us, and be better *humans?* Maybe it sounds weird for me to be the one saying this, but I'm horrified over the amount of male-on-male violence, when you all should be building one another up and tearing down the system that keeps throwing you in the meat grinder...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...