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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 The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:52AM (3 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:52AM (#649448) Homepage Journal

    You do know women hit their peak sexual desire in their early to mid thirties, yes? It's quite possible for a thirty-three year old woman to wear an eighteen year old man completely the fuck out and still want more. Which is to say that your stereotype fails miserably in the face of reality.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @02:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @02:54PM (#649499)

    Yeah, Mark Twain (Sam Clemens) wrote this about his wife...

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday March 08 2018, @08:29PM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday March 08 2018, @08:29PM (#649691) Journal

    You may be onto something here. I'm 32 and for the last 5 or 6 years have been feeling the way boys in their teens are said to feel. How long does this last?

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    • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:56PM

      by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:56PM (#649780) Homepage Journal

      You may be onto something here. I'm 32 and for the last 5 or 6 years have been feeling the way boys in their teens are said to feel. How long does this last?

      For your sake, I hope a good long time!

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