Facebook Adds New Limits To Address the Spread of Hate Speech in Sri Lanka and Myanmar (techcrunch.com) 41
As Facebook grapples with the spread of hate speech on its platform, it is introducing changes that limit the spread of messages in two countries where it has come under fire in recent years: Sri Lanka and Myanmar. From a report: In a blog post on Thursday evening, Facebook said that it was "adding friction" to message forwarding for Messenger users in Sri Lanka so that people could only share a particular message a certain number of times. The limit is currently set to five people. In Myanmar, social media platforms have faced a similar, long-lasting challenge. Facebook said it has started to reduce the distribution of content from people in Myanmar who have consistently violated its community standards with previous posts.
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Well if you just explain it all to us we can learn from you first hand how much all of that sucks!
Make sure you wash your hands first!
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Re: Democrats worried about PeePee frog jpgs (Score:1)
If youâ€(TM)ve ever read his stuff, you know heâ€(TM)s just an ESPN-watching baseball junkie writing a right-leaning column to pay his cable bill.
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Are you surprised that people would rather associate with literal Hitler than with you?
You shouldn't be, because literal Hitler is a nicer person and more pleasant to be around and talk to than you are.
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The folks who want "hate speech" statutes and the kangaroo court style tribunals set up to implement them are really just trying to put a chill on free speech or worse aiming to eliminate free speech altogether.
The importance of strong protection of free speech is not for the speech most people like and/or agree with, but for the expressing of opinions that are unpopular.
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^ THIS.
There is no such thing as hate speech; only some dumbass trying to apply emotions to an verb/noun and trying to censor every one else they disagree with.
Only children censor; adults discuss and laugh at "taboo" topics.
Without the opportunity to freely discuss something there is no opportunity to learn different viewpoints and see what the pros/cons are.
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The first problem isn't a problem. It's a feature.
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Here's another problem: When they say they're "fighting hate speech in Sri Lanka and Myanmar," what they actually mean (when you read the underlying article) is that they're "fighting hate speech against Muslims, and Muslims ONLY, in Sri Lanka and Myanmar." You know, because Facebook is more concerned about protecting Muslims from online criticism in Sri Lanka than the hundreds of innocent Christians murdered in recent church bombings and many other attacks there by Muslim terrorists in just the last few mo
Putting limits on copying data (Score:2)
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Facebook said it has started to reduce the distribution of content from people in Myanmar who have consistently violated its community standards with previous posts.
Maybe I don't understand what "consistently violated" and "standards" mean, but why are they reducing their distribution and not stopping it?
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Maybe I don't understand what "consistently violated" and "standards" mean, but why are they reducing their distribution and not stopping it?
Because if your only option is a ban that's heavy handed and obvious. Consider it a bit like two groups shouting at each other using microphones and you tweak the input volume, if you do it gently they won't realize the microphone is "defective" and get a new one. Most people are not smart enough to deal with using multiple accounts effectively but they will make a new one if they lose it, so you're curbing it instead of playing whack-a-mole.
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Really bad idea (Score:3, Funny)
Compose Message : "Heads up everyone, the government is going door to door shooting people who they think are disloyal!"
Facebook: Please choose which of your five friends you most wish not to die.
What could be amazing tools to fight against oppression are themselves becoming nightmare tools of the state, for the state, and by the state.
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That's what Facebook is trying to slow down. The idea is that if you can send a call for violence out while everyone is angry about something recent then that call to violence will be very, very effective. But if it takes you 2-3 days to tell everybody about your plans it's gonna be hard to get the mob going.
Basically Facebook is making it easy to create flash mobs of angry, violent people while emotions are