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According to Facebook employees who spoke with the New York Times, staffers are also urging the company to hunt down the leakers who released the Bosworth memo.
If the report is accurate, the deletion of internal communications could have legal implications, including in an ongoing Federal Trade Commission investigation into the company’s data-handling practices. Destruction of internal documents was a partial focus of the FTC’s recent investigation of Volkswagen.
Bosworth’s memo continued catastrophic PR fallout following findings that the Facebook data of as many as 50 million users was wrongly harvested by the election consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. In the memo leaked Thursday, Bosworth wrote that “connecting people” should be the company’s driving goal, even if “it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies” or “someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.”
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @03:59PM (5 children)
By censoring people, you are forbidding their connection, which is the exact opposite of growth.
Even if censoring causes growth now, there will come a time when no more growth is possible without finding ways to include those you've been censoring. Growth in connections cannot stop until there is the possibility to connect with anyone who wishes to connect. So, I would say that this perspective only results in "soft" censorship, whereby Facebook provides the tools for each individual to block a connection, but not to prevent other people from forming whatever connections they want.
Maybe you'll get echo chambers, but what else can you hope for?
At that point, it would be in Facebook's interest to promote a "debate" feature, where various echo chambers could connect in a well-refereed manner, and so on.
(Score: 2) by MrGuy on Monday April 02 2018, @04:13PM (4 children)
Read his comment (which is admittedly vague) about "the stuff they'll eventually have to do in China." China is a very high censorship regime. He sounds 100% open to censorship (or even state monitoring) if it builds growth for his platform in China.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @04:17PM (3 children)
It wouldn't be Facebook censoring the Chinese, but rather the GOVERNMENT of China censoring the Chinese.
You're angry at the wrong people, pal.
There's more of a chance of people sharing information through a censored Facebook than through a service that doesn't exist.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Monday April 02 2018, @04:51PM (2 children)
To support your point, Chinese netizens come up with new memes and phrases to spread information as fast as they get censored:
China Bans Orwell's Animal Farm and the Letter 'N' [soylentnews.org]
The Chinese Language as a Weapon: How China’s Netizens Fight Censorship [medium.com]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Monday April 02 2018, @06:27PM (1 child)
Grass Mud Horse
and the river crab who wears 3 watches
T-Shirts and bumper stickers [zazzle.com] to offend someone
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @04:35AM
How about a nice game of big pineapple [pcworld.com]?