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Facebook Surveys Users About Child Predators, Outrage Ensues

posted by janrinok on Thursday March 08 2018, @04:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-we-meant-to-say-was-... dept.

takyon writes:

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".

Also at The Verge, TechCrunch, The Mercury News, CNBC, and Engadget.

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  • (Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Thursday March 08 2018, @06:36AM (1 child)

    by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Thursday March 08 2018, @06:36AM (#649366)

    The person at FB who approved this survey, never mind the person who thought of it (hmm, maybe same person?), must have a near total cognitive disconnect from the rest of reality.

    hey! Just noticed "FaceBook, Inc." == FBI

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @10:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @10:12AM (#649418)

    It went like this;

    FB drone1: "We need to do a survey to show people we are in touch"
    FB drone2: "Great, get FB drones 3 and 4 to knock up some questions, I will come up with some generic answers"

    Questions are independently created from generic answers.

    FB manager then looks at first question and answer then skim reads the rest, OKs it and it is released to wild.

    The answers that are inappropriate for this specific issue seem highly appropriate to just about all other low level questions FB are likely to ask.