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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: 3, Insightful) by inertnet on Friday June 21 2019, @07:39PM (4 children)
It probably is a culture thing, because non of those things are likely to ever happen in my country. Cops killing or getting killed are extremely rare and over the last 50 years they changed from a macho culture to a culture of utmost restraint. While in the USA it seems to have gone the other way around. Racism also seems to have gotten worse in the USA, after a period of improvement during probably the 70's and 80's. As seen from across the pond.
I have no idea how you could turn that around. But I'm not sure if pushing offenders into hiding their opinions is the right way. That could make things worse.
I hope you find a way to stop those senseless killings. Apart from the trigger happy macho culture, at least something must be wrong in the law enforcement education and hiring process.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday June 21 2019, @07:46PM
I'm not sure which country you're in, but yes, it's a serious problem in the US. How serious, we're not quite clear on, because the police departments refuse to release statistics on how many people are killed by cops and what their names are, but it's at least in the hundreds annually.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 22 2019, @10:47AM
Racism has not gotten worse.
You have many more mixed race marriages as compared to decades past and it's not that big a deal, just as one example.
What HAS changed is that the far Left has taken control and it is especially true in media establishments.
So you get this CONSTANT drumbeat of racism, racism, racism, and they will even make up stories about it if they can't find any.
Trust me, racism in America is NOT worse than in the past. You just hear the media go on about it a lot more.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday June 22 2019, @02:28PM (1 child)
The racism. Has it actually gotten worse? Honestly, I don't think so. My wife and her sisters can remember signs from their youth, "Nigger, don't let the sun set on your ass in this town!" There were lynchings, within our lifetimes. Today? Nope. Nada. Not even the ignorant macho rednecks I live amongst keep "nigger thumpers" behind their seats, or under their seats. It ain't happening.
You're probably right, the 70's and 80's may have been the high point. But then, whatever racism there was remaining started being blow up by identity politics. That's all we've seen in the media for decades now. Every reporter searches for the merest suggestion of racism, reports it, and her editor blows it all out of proportion.
Then, when a Tamir Rice happens, it fails to generate proper interest, because we've already been so outraged over trivia, we can't recognize that THIS is a REAL OUTRAGE.
Blame the media, blame the identity politics people.
In real life, race relations in backwoods Arkansas, and most of the south, are mostly semi-relaxed. We don't have either blacks or whites stalking the streets, looking to kill someone of the wrong color. That shit happens in big cities, run by Democrats.
(Score: 2) by inertnet on Sunday June 23 2019, @10:37AM
My "racism has gotten worse" comment is not exactly what I meant. What I mean is that hatred, or contrast between groups is now far worse. Nowadays I'm presumed to be a racist, just for being white. Even in this discussion I was modded a troll, which I don't understand. If you would know my family you'd immediately understand that I couldn't be a racist.
People were much friendlier a couple of decades ago.