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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 12 2020, @08:30PM (8 children)
She's only on this shtick because of the personal abuse she has brought down upon herself over the last 30+ years. She really is the apk doppelganger. Ironically, she is a serious conformist. And I don't believe the meds are helping her to keep on an even keel at all. The mood swings are quite the spectacle.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday September 12 2020, @09:50PM (7 children)
Mood swings? Nope - I saw how shitty OSS became and said "fuck it."
The Cathedral and the Bazaar was a lie. There is no bazaar. Innovation? What passes for the OSS Bazaar is increasingly just shitty clones of other software.
Exhibit one: web browsers. Where's the bazaar. It's all google, all the time. Even Firefox copies Google's shitty features, and is dependent on google for life support . There used to be a lot more browsers. And a myriad of features. Not one browser to rule them all.
Exhibit two: Linux distros. There's too many , which at first glance would seem to contradict my claim that there's no bazaar . But if you look at the actual programs they come with , it's all the same. Nobody is going to spend serious money developing another office suite that does things better if everyone else can just copy it. Nobody is going to develop an innovative web browser for the same reason. You'll go broke. And nobody is going to invest the significant sums necessary for a really good OSS game because everyone else will just copy it and stick ads in it and create their own DLC marketplace and you are out your investment.
Exhibit three: The PinePhone. Gee, how are those sales going?
Also, APK was not even on my radar until his hosts file spamming pissed me off 15 years ago. You're nuts iand should stop making shit up. And you're angry that I was once one of those pushing open source but have woken up and seen that ESR and RMS were full of shit. You say I'm a conformist, but I'm the one refusing to conform to the group think. Show me the bazaar, show me the innovation instead of poor clones, show me distros that don't contain an increasingly tired collection of poorly maintained packages. Not just "twiddling the knobs on the UI" as "innovation." That's the Microsoft Way circa Vista.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 13 2020, @03:28AM (6 children)
Man! You are so full of yourself! You're only mad at free software because you feel personally slighted and take offense at the smallest challenge. It's all in your head. Free software is perfectly fine. You really should just shut your mouth about it. You're just spewing whiny bullshit.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday September 13 2020, @03:42AM (5 children)
Wake me up when there's some AAA free open source games. The biggest consumer software market, bigger than movies, and NOTHING!
Loser. Fortunately , with the collapse of the idea that OSS can meet people's needs, we can hope for a bazaar of closed source software.
Oh wait -it's already happened in app stores selling literally millions of different softwares, both paid and ad-supported, without giving away the source.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 13 2020, @05:11PM (4 children)
I noticed you cannot refute any of my points.
There's nothing to refute! It's all pure nonsensical bullshit. You're not making any "point", you're just ranting and jabbering.
You sound like a freetard. Probably because you are.
You sound like a pretentious moron. Most definitely because you are! What a dumbass prick! This is why people have been reacting so negatively to you over the last 30 years, and you still don't get it. You're just like your apk. That DSM-5 must be full of info about you
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday September 13 2020, @05:32PM (3 children)
The smartphone is the primary computing device for the majority of the population, and it's where the most prolific application development takes place. These are developers making money off closed source software. It's the bazaar, but not open source.
So why aren't we seeing open source applications competing on phones? Simple - developers want to get paid for their work. And people are willing to either pay for it directly or through ads.
That is one fact that you cannot explain - that most people seek out closed source applications on their main computing devices. The battle has been decided for almost a decade, which is remarkable considering that's only a bit longer than the current iteration of the smartphone.
And there's no way that OSS can change that. It has neither the technical chops nor the financial resources to.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 14 2020, @12:12AM (2 children)
:-) Yes! do tell! You made no point to address. They are simple rants, it's you howling at the moon and engaging in name calling. You don't like free software for some personal reason that's totally irrelevant to the world at large. Who the fuck cares?!
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Monday September 14 2020, @03:28AM (1 child)
I'm not happy about it, but I was willing to face up to the facts. There is a pitiful open source bazaar with comparatively few software choices. And a closed source bazaar with more than 10 million choices between all the platforms, and a financial model that works for both the producers and consumers, in part because only a fool knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Free software doesn't work for consumers or we would have had a "year of Linux on the desktop." I don't hear anyone saying that today.
Then again, there will never again be any sort of "year of the desktop" - any desktop - ever again. We passed the "year of the smartphone " a while ago, and it's now most people's default device.
And tablets which had their day , will probably have a comeback with improved operating systems to replace laptops.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 14 2020, @05:20PM
I don't like free software because it's getting worse, not better.
Rubbish! You are simply carrying a personal grudge. Everything you say about open source is nothing but garbage. Looks like you have an inferiority complex!