There have been disturbing actions on Facebook. This even includes murder. But recently, Facebook hired many to stop hate speech and hate promotion. Hence, here’s how they do it. Facebook code of conduct exposed.
So somehow, British publication The Guardian?has over 100 training manuals. Such training fights violence, hatred, terrorism, hard core pornography, even cannibalism. One evil they address is revenge porn. So here is how. They say revenge porn is content that invades privacy, the victim is nude and/or sexually active, and does not consent. But what do they do about it? Consequently, that’s not so clear.
Believe it or not, the guidelines I read are more lenient then I thought. For instance, take violent threats. For example, threatening to harm or kill a famous person is against these new rules. So is violence against any racial or religious group. However, other threats can pass. But the new Facebook code of conduct will even tolerate acts or attempts of self-harm or suicide. This is because they don’t want to censor or punish anybody already on the edge. They’ll even allow animal abuse, except for extreme cases. However, they will block actions of child abuse, especially it the abuser celebrates his abusive actions.
I thought Facebook would be too strict. But now, I wonder if these rules are too lenient. Remember the cry about ‘fake news’? It seems like they worry more about that than they do about extreme violence. I’m glad they’re confronting that. And I understand the Facebook wants to respect free speech. I’m glad they are. But I believe Facebook, and all other IT services, should provide some safe space for children and sensitive viewers. I may be old school. But I don’t think acts of self-harm and abuse is a safe space for children or the sensitive. So what do we do? How does the Facebook code of conduct ?walk the like between free speech and a safe space?