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

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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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday April 24 2018, @06:03PM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday April 24 2018, @06:03PM (#671257)

    It depends a lot on what kind of leftist you're talking about.

    What you're describing is best labelled "neoliberalism". It's been the dominant policy ideal of the Democratic Party ever since 1992 or so, exemplified by Bill and Hillary Clinton as well as Barack Obama, and basically amounts to "equal rights for everyone regardless of race, gender, sex, or orientation, but no substantial opposition to corporate control over the economic structure". And you're absolutely right that they really don't want the working classes to have a strong bargaining position.

    That's substantially different from lots of different kinds of leftist thinking, though. The major fight within the Democratic Party as of late has been the neoliberals doing everything they can to hang onto their current power, while people more to the left of them are arguing that the "identity politics" around race, gender, sex, orientation ... issues are being used to hide the fact that the neoliberals will gladly sell out the working classes to big corporations. It's gotten nasty enough that the neoliberals are firing and otherwise removing from the party structure anybody challenging neoliberalism as the party's ideals.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @08:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @08:31PM (#671316)

    ^ for all you RWNJs out there

    don't worry, most "leftists" get along fine with conservatives and realize that Alex Jones does not represent the average conservative.