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A Facebook engineer has quit the firm, saying they "can no longer stomach" being part of an organisation "profiting off hate".
Ashok Chandwaney is the latest employee to go public with concerns about how the company deals with hate speech.
The engineer added it was "choosing to be on the wrong side of history".
Facebook responded by saying it had removed millions of hate-related posts. Another of its ex-engineers has also come to its defence.
The thrust of the post by Ashok Chandwaney - who uses "they" and "them" as personal pronouns - is that Facebook moves quickly to solve certain problems, but when it comes to dealing with hate speech, it is more interested in PR than implementing real change.
Can [or should] Facebook successfully purge its platform of speech it considers harmful?
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by barbara hudson on Thursday September 10 2020, @02:08AM (11 children)
What a load of utter horseshit.
Most of the people living in the USA today are descendants of immigrants.
Except for the slaves - they didn't exactly have a choice. They were property.
The native Americans would have a different opinion as to who the obnoxious immigrants are.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2020, @02:14AM (1 child)
Bot (3902) is Italian, allegedly. Hence the mafia reference.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday September 10 2020, @02:12PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2020, @03:01AM (1 child)
He's Italian and he's correct. The mobs had a code of honor and avoided direct involvement with drugs and prostitution until Maria Licciardi became first female boss of the Camorra. [wikipedia.org]
Europe is now full of unemployable "migrants" [rmx.news] that the native populations never invited.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2020, @07:12AM
Yeah, you say! But, they would buy the American whore for $50, due to lack of quality and education. Last thing any client wants, is a stupid whore, or a khallow.
(Score: 2) by EEMac on Thursday September 10 2020, @07:18AM
It's turtles all the way down [stonetoss.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2020, @01:10PM
The at least two and possibly three or more waves of pre-Clovis people to settle in the Americas would no doubt have their own opinion on the subject, had any of them survived the Clovis invasion.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 10 2020, @02:30PM (4 children)
Isn't it interesting and informative that the Social Justice Warriors have not taken up the plight of American Indians, who by far have been most wronged in America, and instead are throwing all their time, effort, and money into the BLM group? Is it not because of social justice or equity at all but because American Indians do not constitute an important voting bloc that the Left must win?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 10 2020, @04:55PM
We do both. You'll notice the removal of the fake history of Columbus has resulted in a few victimized shrieks lately...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 11 2020, @02:46AM
It probably has a lot to do with the American Indians not rioting, looting, and burning shit down too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 11 2020, @07:52AM (1 child)
Oh right, like the Dakota pipeline?
Sheesh you get stupider by the day.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 13 2020, @01:13AM
He's becoming radicalized in real time. He's a year or two behind Runaway in this particular death spiral but he's following the pattern almost exactly. It's sad, but he's *choosing* this; watching someone willingly throw their own soul into Moloch's burning arms is somewhere north of incomprehensible and barely south of Cthulhoid.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...