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Instagram will filter out bullying comments
At the F8 conference today, it was announced that Instagram will filter out bullying comments from posts, starting today. This includes anything "intended to harass or upset people in our community," the platform's CEO said in a post. Doing this will ensure Instagram remains "an inclusive, supportive place for all voices," he wrote.
From our CEO kevin "Starting today, Instagram will filter bullying comments intended to harass or upset people in our community. To be clear: we don't tolerate bullying on Instagram. Our Community Guidelines have always prohibited bullying on our platform, and I'm proud to announce this next step in our ongoing commitment to keeping Instagram an inclusive, supportive place for all voices. We also believe in promoting kindness — encouraging our community to support one another both on and off Instagram. On Saturday we will host a Kindness Prom to celebrate people on our platform who are spreading positivity. These young leaders are inspiring their peers by helping kindness, acceptance and support grow on Instagram and in the world. Since Mike and I founded Instagram, it's been our goal to make it a safe place for self-expression and to foster kindness within the community. This update is just the next step in our mission to deliver on that promise."
The filter will be enabled automatically, but can be disabled. Regardless of a user's settings, the filter will be able to automatically flag comments for official review. Facebook's DeepText machine learning algorithm is used to review words for context and meaning.
(Score: 2) by http on Friday May 04 2018, @06:36AM (1 child)
TMB, I'm surprised. Your reading comprehension and reasoning is usually much beter than this.
There was no threat, merely a courtesy statement of my policy. A marketing droid would cut off their own dick to find out for sure why people are spending their money elsewhere, and here you're getting it for free. Framing it as a "threat" is totally bizarre until one considers the possibility that you've got some paranoid narratives going on in the background. You're not paranoid, are you?
The free marketplace rule of thumb for dealing with for-profit businesses is that when they're dicks about something, you can take your custom elsewhere. But doing only that won't change things. If enough people take their custom elsewhere and tell them why, they have a chance to look at how they run. Maybe they'll change, maybe not. As much as they like ROI, for-profits also value stable procedures, plausible deniability and so on. It's meant as removal of support, not a killing blow; it's not my problem if a business is built on sand.
Mutatis mutandis for other types of organizations, money isn't the only pressure point.
I browse at -1 when I have mod points. It's unsettling.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday May 04 2018, @09:27AM
If that's what it takes to get you through the day, you go ahead thinking that. I'll just raise this point in response and leave you to stew in your denial: Has it occurred to you that you're doing precisely what the blue-haired church ladies used to do when they saw something overly sexual on television, and for the same reasons? Well, you would be if you had actually ever contributed what you've now decided you'll be withholding.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.