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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 11 2020, @02:38AM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday September 11 2020, @02:38AM (#1049326) Journal

    Like-minded people (like white supremacists) get together on it and create a positive feedback loop, reinforcing each others' opinions.

    That is not what happens. The same thing happens with those groups that happens with ideologues on the Left like Antifa or BLM (no, not the Bureau of Land Management, sadly)--they begin a purity spiral. One white supremacist will say something that another white supremacist agrees with, and they might initially rejoice that somebody else shares their warped perspective. Then eventually one will say something like he ate at Chili's and the other one will go after him for eating Beaner food. Jabs will be traded, and then escalate, and they'll wander off in renewed silence and bitterness.

    Just go and lurk on Stormfront sometime. It's pitiful and laughable at the same time. But one thing it absolutely will do is put the lie to the Democratic/MSM mantra that "white supremacy is the greatest threat to the nation!!!"

    Zealots cannot tolerate variance from their true faith. That inflexibility is what makes them zealots in the first place.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 11 2020, @03:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 11 2020, @03:48AM (#1049359)

    Explains a lot that you would lurk on stormfront. Do not give such hate your attention, it will only stain your soul.

    Peace my brother,
    apk

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 13 2020, @01:11AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday September 13 2020, @01:11AM (#1050168) Journal

    The irony of those last two sentences coming from you is so thick you can cut it with a knife and spread it on bread :)

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