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This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action

posted by martyb on Friday June 21 2019, @09:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the Thin-blue-racist-line dept.

aristarchus writes:

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."

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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday June 21 2019, @11:09PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Friday June 21 2019, @11:09PM (#858689) Homepage Journal

    Social media platforms literally exist for the surveillance of their users.
    Use means of communication with some privacy, people, not this creepy shit where your utterances are tied to your

    Back in the early 1990s, when the large corporation for which I worked first connected to the Internet, they published advice and guidelines for using email that stuck with me:

    Never put anything in an email that you wouldn't want to see on the front page of your local newspaper.

    It's pretty dated, obviously, since many don't use email any more and there aren't many local newspapers either. However, the principle still applies and is, IMHO, sage advice.

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