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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @07:48PM
There's this idea that most adults are good at long-term thinking, but they aren't; they're only marginally better at it than children. As such, it's easily possible to "manipulate" adults as well, and it happens quite often. I would imagine that adults who are drunk, high, sleepy, or suffering from emotional turmoil would be easier to manipulate, yet I don't think most people would be so quick to say that it would inherently be rape to have sex with such people. And how do you even determine what is and is not "manipulation"?
That's really the problem with laws that fail to take individual circumstances into account. Instead of investigating to see if there was consent like we would do if it was a case that involved adults, our current laws just determine that there can be no real consent if someone is under a certain age. You know, because children.