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Facebook Releases Internal Moderation Guidelines

posted by janrinok on Tuesday April 24 2018, @03:13PM   
from the devil-in-the-detail dept.

takyon writes:

Facebook reveals 25 pages of takedown rules for hate speech and more

Facebook has never before made public the guidelines its moderators use to decide whether to remove violence, spam, harassment, self-harm, terrorism, intellectual property theft, and hate speech from social network until now. The company hoped to avoid making it easy to game these rules, but that worry has been overridden by the public's constant calls for clarity and protests about its decisions. Today Facebook published 25 pages of detailed criteria and examples for what is and isn't allowed.

Facebook is effectively shifting where it will be criticized to the underlying policy instead of individual incidents of enforcement mistakes like when it took down posts of the newsworthy "Napalm Girl" historical photo because it contains child nudity before eventually restoring them. Some groups will surely find points to take issue with, but Facebook has made some significant improvements. Most notably, it no longer disqualifies minorities from shielding from hate speech because an unprotected characteristic like "children" is appended to a protected characteristic like "black".

Nothing is technically changing about Facebook's policies. But previously, only leaks like a copy of an internal rulebook attained by the Guardian had given the outside world a look at when Facebook actually enforces those policies. These rules will be translated into over 40 languages for the public. Facebook currently has 7500 content reviewers, up 40% from a year ago.

Also at MarketWatch.

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• Re:in summary Re:in summary (Score: 4, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday April 24 2018, @05:44PM (1 child)

  by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday April 24 2018, @05:44PM (#671247) Journal

  Leftist people want to support immigrants for humanitarian purposes, not to drive wages down. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a retard (like you). Why? Simple: the leftists are just as threatened by cheap labor (hello! tech industry?) as the blue collar industry is with immigration.

  But thanks to partisan political games bought about people looking to fool morons such as yourself into believing whatever drivel they can muster turning every issue into convenient double edged swords. So everything is now a kindergarten level black and white issue. Here's the kind of garbage people like you are perpetuating:

  Support immigrants? You're a commie hippie leftist looking to destroy america and white people/culture.
  Support Strict Immigration policy? You're a deplorable right wing racist card carrying nazi kkk member looking to ethnically cleanse the planet of non whites.

  You can also swap in gay marriage and gun rights above.

  In summary: fuck you.

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• Re:in summary (Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Tuesday April 24 2018, @07:23PM

  by edIII (791) on Tuesday April 24 2018, @07:23PM (#671279)

  It's funny some people think I'm Left, but my immigration position is actually quite radical for everyone.

  1. Mexicans, or brown people from South America, are already Americans. It was simply our failure to recognize the truth. They're a fucked over abused class of people, scapegoated, forced to deal with suppressed wages, and are effectively a lower class of citizen. In actuality, the poor and middle class of America have everything in common with this abused special class of people. The myth that they're lazy is just that, a myth. Firsthand, I know how hard they work. They've built overpasses, or basically, been involved with any corrupt construction project where the government gives 20 million to some rich Elite fuckwad to build infrastructure, and he then abuses the cheap Mexican labor, and top of it all, donates back to the sleazy politicians that can then rally up their constituents over the evil Mexicans. After thinking about it for a long time, the only reason they aren't considered American is because of snobby elitist fucks strutting about thinking they're more American than they are simply because they were born in the US. If being American was about the level of contribution....... So grant amnesty to every single one them, except the actual criminals that will be imprisoned or deported the moment we get our hands on them.
  2. Build the WALL. Just not a physical one. An effective military controlled border, with Canada as well as Mexico. We actually do have an imperative need to secure our borders and ports. Then secure our airspace, our outerspace, and our cyberspace, as well as continual seismic along our borders to detect tunnels up to 20k feet deep.
  3. END IMMIGRATION PERIOD. America is closing its borders, will admit no new entries, until America has stabilized economically, socially, and to some extent geopolitically

  It makes no sense at all to be letting people in. Not when we're about to break apart in civil war because the Elites have sucked out >90% of the wealth and set us against each other. There's no more money or opportunity in the US for anyone coming here, so just shut it down entirely.

  Now, if we killed all the Elites and politicians... we could get this country back on track and it wouldn't matter to us that we have immigration of people needing help, much less people capable of making great contributions from the moment they touch foot here (allegedly the Norwegians).

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  Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.

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