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Facebook asks users: should we allow men to ask children for sexual images?
Facebook has admitted it was a "mistake" to ask users whether paedophiles requesting sexual pictures from children should be allowed on its website.
On Sunday, the social network ran a survey for some users asking how they thought the company should handle grooming behaviour. "There are a wide range of topics and behaviours that appear on Facebook," one question began. "In thinking about an ideal world where you could set Facebook's policies, how would you handle the following: a private message in which an adult man asks a 14-year-old girl for sexual pictures."
The options available to respondents ranged from "this content should not be allowed on Facebook, and no one should be able to see it" to "this content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it".
A second question asked who should decide the rules around whether or not the adult man should be allowed to ask for such pictures on Facebook. Options available included "Facebook users decide the rules by voting and tell Facebook" and "Facebook decides the rules on its own".
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(Score: 5, Touché) by c0lo on Thursday March 08 2018, @05:53AM (11 children)
Exactly who are they?
I admit I haven't been paying attention to sexual matters in the last decade or so, much less to predatory sexual matters.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by RS3 on Thursday March 08 2018, @06:29AM (1 child)
To be fair, there are a lot of allegations and accusations. I wish public opinion was less knee-jerk reaction, and more thoughtful patience.
Some of the notables: Al Franken, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Megan Barry, Matt Lauer, Stephen Bittel; the list goes on and on.
(Score: 1) by Aegis on Friday March 09 2018, @12:50AM
Steve Wynn, Don Shooter, Blake Farenthold, Trent Franks, Patrick Meehan, Jeff Hoover, Dan Johnson.
Note: These are all either elected Republicans or people who work for the Republican party. Not just people who happened to donate to Clinton once or work for the "Fake News."
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Thursday March 08 2018, @06:39AM (8 children)
I think the Buzzard doth protest too much. Is there anything we should be aware of, TMB?
And what is with the sudden rash of pedophilia stories? Are we trying to attract the alt-right or MickeUSSR? Or, seriously, is there something we should know?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:44AM (3 children)
Naw, I wasn't even a pedophile back when I was underage myself. I acquired a taste for women in their thirties around the same time I got my learner's permit. They've worn the biggest parts of the stupid off by then, gained much in the way of interesting experience, and started their own sexual peak.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 08 2018, @05:38PM (1 child)
Wow, I am out of touch. I didn't realize a learner's permit was required for chasing women.
Thank goodness the 1st amendment forces people to listen to you and agree with you.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 10 2018, @12:09AM
Being able to drive yourself makes chasing tail much easier.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:02PM
TMB! WTF! TMI! LOL!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @06:57PM (3 children)
Your preoccupation with the Buzzard is unbecoming of a Greek. You DO realize that he is an adult? Run along, and find yourself a plump little boy to diddle.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by aristarchus on Thursday March 08 2018, @07:31PM (2 children)
Shirley you mean "Runaway", do you not?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday March 08 2018, @08:33PM (1 child)
He said "plump little boy," not "waddling manchild with a persecution complex bigger than his beer gut."
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:04PM
I've got as beer gut you insensitive clod... Hot grits etc.