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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:At some point I had an epiphany Re:At some point I had an epiphany (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 11 2020, @02:49AM (1 child)

  by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday September 11 2020, @02:49AM (#1049332) Journal

  When I worked for an ISP, I realized that something like 30% of my money was coming from porn. Allegedly, that's how much Internet traffic is porn.

  I would be interested to know what the economics of that industry are. Who pays for porn when it can be had for free?

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• Re:At some point I had an epiphany (Score: 2) by istartedi on Friday September 11 2020, @05:44AM

  by istartedi (123) on Friday September 11 2020, @05:44AM (#1049382) Journal

  I'm guessing the "free porn" has ads, malware, and data aggregation based on your location; just like everything else.

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