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

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 urza9814 on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:03PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:03PM (#649756) Journal

    You are on dangerous ground here, bringing IQ into this discussion. You do know there are certain countries where the average IQ is under 70, right? If we accept that reasoning, having sex with over half the people in those countries would be "rape."

    I'm not trying to encourage you to accept any particular reasoning, I'm just discussing the facts of existing law, at least in parts of the US...although I'd be surprised if some other western nations didn't have similar laws too.

    http://crimefeed.com/2016/03/important-concepts-know-comes-consent-laws-people-disabilities/ [crimefeed.com]
    https://behavenet.com/node/21026 [behavenet.com]

    Based on those references I suppose I should have used 70 as the example instead of 75...the more formal legal/medical definitions seem to all use 70 as the cutoff. But those results are known to have some variance too, so you might score 75 one day and 70 the next.

    Also relevant to the original point -- note from that first link that there's at least *policies*, if not actual *laws*, that just use a vague "intellectual impairment" metric. So back to the IQ of 80 vs 130 example -- it probably won't get anyone thrown in prison yet, but it could potentially get them fired or kicked out of school if the wrong person decided they had a problem with it. IQ isn't everything, but at least it's a quantitative metric. And I don't think comparing across countries is entirely valid for this either...whatever metrics are used ought to include some compotent of social and cultural understanding, since this is ultimately about a person's ability to understand and consent to certain types of social interaction. So I don't see why it would be surprising that different cultures might need to use different metrics to try to measure that. And yes, I know that's not what IQ is supposed to measure, but I'm not sure that it's even possible to design a test that doesn't indirectly measure oen's familiarity with the testing procedure itself.

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