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Facebook had a problem on its hands. People were making posts that got caught in the company's automated moderation system or were taken down by its human moderators. The problem wasn't that the moderators, human or otherwise, were wrong to take down the posts. No, the problem was that the people behind the posts were famous or noteworthy, and the company didn't want a PR mess on its hands.
So Facebook came up with a program called XCheck, or cross check, which in many instances became a de facto whitelist. Over the years, XCheck has allowed celebrities, politicians, athletes, activists, journalists, and even the owners of "animal influencers" like "Doug the Pug" to post whatever they want, with few to no consequences for violating the company's rules.
"For a select few members of our community, we are not enforcing our policies and standards," reads an internal Facebook report published as part of a Wall Street Journal investigation. "Unlike the rest of our community, these people can violate our standards without any consequences."
"Few" must be a relative term at Facebook, as at least 5.8 million people were enrolled in the program as of last year, many of them with significant followings. That means a large number of influential people are allowed to post largely unchecked on Facebook and Instagram.
(Score: 1, Troll) by tangomargarine on Tuesday September 14 2021, @04:10PM (7 children)
Some of these things are not like the others...since when is saying mean things about gays and blacks illegal?
Your list of examples sort of directly contradicts the point you were making.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 14 2021, @04:19PM (6 children)
It becomes very much illegal when a couple carloads of teens and twenty-somethings get together on Facebook to discuss kicking the shit out of someone because they are gay. Or black. Or Jewish. Or whatever. "Gay bashing" never was about sitting around and chewing the fat.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Tuesday September 14 2021, @06:05PM (3 children)
So call it "incitement to violence" instead of "racism", if that's what you mean.
I'm not sure I'm convinced "gay bashing" colloquially still means "finding a gay person to physically assault." "Bashing" is more likely to be used in the "verbally denigrate" meaning these days IMO.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 14 2021, @06:26PM (2 children)
Ask someone who's been gaybashed.
But if you want a comprehensible answer, wait until the swelling has receded and cuts healed over so that they can move their face again properly.
... or so I've been told. By people who may have been gaybashed. Allegedly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 14 2021, @09:21PM (1 child)
We call that "assault".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 15 2021, @04:46PM
What do we call invading the Capital building and calling for the Vice President to be hanged? Tourists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 15 2021, @01:18AM
Whatabout trannies?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 15 2021, @08:34PM
Niggers, fags and kikes can get the fuck out of White countries.