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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: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday April 24 2018, @08:07PM (1 child)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday April 24 2018, @08:07PM (#671298) Journal

    Another classic example is its a white privilege to commit hate crimes, only whites are permitted that designation.

    That is simply not true.

    Here is a recent example. [chicagotribune.com]

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @09:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @09:35PM (#671355)

    There is still a bias.
    She got 200 hours of community service and four years of probation for beating someone.
    This guy http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/18/florida-man-gets-year-in-prison-for-mosque-threat.html [foxnews.com] got a year in jail for making a phone call that : "Court documents say the message used profanity against Islam, the prophet Muhammad and the Quran and threatened to "go down to your center" and shoot people."