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Facebook 'Profits from Hate' Claims Engineer Who Quit

posted by martyb on Wednesday September 09 2020, @11:40PM   
from the $$$ dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

BBC:

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?

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• Re:It's a complicated issue Re:It's a complicated issue (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2020, @02:38AM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2020, @02:38AM (#1048761)

  I grew up in a country where software development was mostly female occupation; medical doctors were mostly female too. My mother was a software developer while my father had a man's occupation of space engineer. I was a pussy to take mother's path.

  What sort of feminist magic and/or social and political struggles created this utopia? Did being compared to a vagina make you feel powerful?

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• Re:It's a complicated issue (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2020, @07:09AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2020, @07:09AM (#1048846)

  Old school soviet socialist. Not hard to identify, for those of us not brainwashed by American patriachial "pussy-grabbing" ideology. You know, women hold up half the sky! Still doesn't mean you're getting any, you fucking loser incel and momma's boy Bates Hotel messed up dude!

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• Re:It's a complicated issue Re:It's a complicated issue (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday September 10 2020, @02:49PM (1 child)

  by hendrikboom (1125) on Thursday September 10 2020, @02:49PM (#1048983) Homepage Journal

  Current medical school enrollment here in Canada, and probably elsewhere, is majority female.

  Back in the 60's, there were quotas on the number of women that were permitted to enroll.

  The result back then was that if your doctor was female, she was likely one of the best doctors around. Like my wife, a hematologist, who died last year.

  -- hendrik

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  • Re:It's a complicated issue (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 11 2020, @02:24AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday September 11 2020, @02:24AM (#1049322) Journal

    Like my wife, a hematologist, who died last year.

    I'm sorry for your loss.

    --
    Washington DC delenda est.

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