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Facebook 'Profits from Hate' Claims Engineer Who Quit

posted by martyb on Wednesday September 09 2020, @11:40PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 10 2020, @02:30PM (4 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday September 10 2020, @02:30PM (#1048963) Journal

    The native Americans would have a different opinion as to who the obnoxious immigrants are.

    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?

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 10 2020, @04:55PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday September 10 2020, @04:55PM (#1049055) Journal

    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?

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 11 2020, @02:46AM (#1049329)

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 11 2020, @07:52AM (#1049400)

    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

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday September 13 2020, @01:13AM (#1050169) Journal

      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.

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