This statement makes no sense, as if Facebook had a free speech policy she wouldn't have had her post taken down. The issue is that Facebook is limiting speech on their platform, and doing so in a way people find inconsistent and arbitrary.
Automatic moderation is pretty difficult. It removes the nuance. I mean she literally posted hate speech. You think an algorithm is gonna care about the contextual nuances?
Meanwhile, manual review is slow, expensive, and inconsistent. So I am not sure for a company it is really all that much better.
I don't think there's a right answer. Just a "least wrong" one.
Funny,.... if I understand those rules correctly on facebook you could say 'Everybody living in, or originating from Africa is subhuman trash', but saying stuff like 'The French smell like cheese' is forbidden.
It's also growing kind of tiresome to see the banhammer coming down swiftly on social activists, but every other day we read stories about hate groups and shit-posters who roam free until they make a public ass of themselves OFF of the platform. Then FB jumps in trying to play the hero.
This happens constantly in activist circles. Hell, just today a black woman, an activist and writer, was banned for sharing racist messages and death threats she's received on facebook.
Automatic moderation is pretty difficult. It removes the nuance. I mean she literally posted hate speech. You think an algorithm is gonna care about the contextual nuances?
Meanwhile, manual review is slow, expensive, and inconsistent. So I am not sure for a company it is really all that much better.
I don't think there's a right answer. Just a "least wrong" one.
This isn't an accident. The 'blame it on the algoryrhythmz' excuse wore thin ages ago. We are in the midst of a full on white nationalist uprising and they refuse to moderate their service that they make a fortune on.
Privatizing profit while socializing cost just like normal, except now that cost is measured in risk to minorities.
This isn't an accident. The 'blame it on the algoryrhythmz' excuse wore thin ages ago. We are in the midst of a full on white nationalist uprising and they refuse to moderate their service that they make a fortune on.