Facebook may be trying to censor hate-speech, but others are putting it to good use.
From CNN
Law enforcement agencies in Dallas and Florida on Thursday became the latest to announce they are investigating allegations some of their employees made offensive comments on Facebook after a watchdog group compiled screenshots of the posts and shared them in an online database.
The screenshots of the public posts, published in the Plain View Project's online database, purport to show officers or police department employees making hateful or racist remarks.
[...] Since its founding in 2017, the Plain View Project says it has compiled images of more than 5,000 social media posts and comments by more than 3,500 current and former police officers in eight jurisdictions throughout the US.
Researchers obtained rosters of police officers and then looked them up on Facebook, according to the project's website.After examining the profiles to confirm they belonged to police officers, they reviewed public posts and comments to see if they would "undermine public trust and confidence in police."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 21 2019, @05:25PM (1 child)
Really? It wouldn't be to keep criminals from intimidating THEM and their families?
You do know there are for reals criminals, don't you, or is everyone innocent and the crimes commit themselves?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 21 2019, @06:01PM
It's trivial to figure out where cops live. I have managed to dig up the name and address of every cop who has so much as given me a ticket within minutes of getting home. I file the information away with the ticket, photos of what's outside my immediate window, the weather report, etc and usually happily pay the fine no hard feelings but I had one privately investigated and fired a few years later when certain things were happening in the community and I knew he was going to fuck up hourly.
Wish I could say justice is served but he's at some other department.