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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.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @08:39AM (2 children)
This is burned into our DNA by evolution:
Fertile women are inherently of value. If you can't be one or at least pretend to be one, you are worthless by default. There is no shortage of sperm and no use for a menopausal womb.
Many people deny it, but everybody instinctively knows it. We send men off to war, put women and children in lifeboats first, laugh when men suffer...
Men and boys know that they must take action to show some value. This is why they take so many seemingly stupid risks. This is why they get in fights, start businesses, show off skills, show off money, and seek to acquire money. They have an instinct that drives them to this.
Teaching kids doesn't pay. It can't pay, because teachers are a significant portion of the population and must be supported by all the other people. Men therefore avoid it. Men need money to prove their worth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @07:36PM
Haha! This is soooooo true! In fact, there is a whole TV show dedicated to laughing at men suffering, it's called "Ow, My Balls!". Or did I dream it?
(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...