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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 barbara hudson on Monday September 14 2020, @03:28AM (1 child)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Monday September 14 2020, @03:28AM (#1050615) Journal
    I don't like free software because it's getting worse, not better. Fewer choices, and no way to change that. It's an evolutionary dead end.

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 14 2020, @05:20PM (#1050855)

    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!