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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?
(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!