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Facebook Needs To Protect Human Rights Issue, Civil Groups Say (cnet.com)
Facebook needs to be more forthcoming about the kinds of content it takes down. That's according to 73 organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Black Lives Matter, SumOfUs and more, who signed a letter sent to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. From a report on CNET: The group asks for more clarity on the social networking giant's position on removing video and other content that highlight civil rights issues at the behest of authorities. The growing importance of Facebook in your life means it plays a central role in the news, video and content you see. That was made horrifyingly clear over the summer when its Facebook Live streaming video tool was used to broadcast the shooting of a black man by a police officer in Minnesota. The next day, the medium was used to broadcast a sniper firing shots at police officer at another civil rights demonstration. "With the onset of Facebook Live, your company is taking on an increasingly central role in controlling media that circulates through the public sphere," the letter said. "News is not just getting shared on Facebook: it's getting broken there."
News Flash - SJWs think Facebook should push their causes more.
"News is not just getting shared on Facebook: it's getting broken there." That sounds like a quote from the news industry not real people. The news gets broken when it goes to the networks, everyone knows it yet here we are talking about facebook again.
I believe we need to hold Facebook to the same high standards of Journalism (Accuracy, objectivity, ethics, unbiased and verified) as we do the major media outlets like Fox, CNN, NYT, NPR, and Rolling Stone Magazine.
(Thank goodness nobody can see my face as I typed that)
We wouldn't need to make a company do the people's bidding if people made use of the Internet instead of Zuckernet. Stop putting everything behind those walls.
It would be really nice if Facebook would do more to protect and promote civil rights but they're under no obligation to under the law. They're a private, for profit corporation, and as such, they're not required to protect civil rights. The only legal requirements that corporation has are that it not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, and age.
Plenty of people in the world choose not to participate in this "social network" - that is what these groups should be campaigning against. They have no impetus as a private company to do anything except make money for their shareholders. People hold the power because they are producing free content on a daily basis to Facebook, but they'd rather be vain and self centered than pull themselves away from the site.
That list of organizations reminds me of the "Life of Brian". "The People's Front of Judea" belongs on that list along with "Students for Justice in Palestine" and "Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights"
"The growing importance of Facebook in your life means it plays a central role in the news, video and content you see." (aka they have too much power over what you see so we want some of it too)
And just go with the legal requirements of the jurisdiction. Facebook gives us plenty of control over what we see. If a friend of yours is offensive you have plenty of options ranging from blocking news sources from a friend to defriending the person. Social media companies should be far more neutral and just tell people to STFU when they complain about content they're seeing because they provide the tools needed to block content you don't want to see.
Facebook Needs To Protect Human Rights Issue, Civil Groups Say
That headline seems to have got a bit garbled. They're not being told to protect "a human rights issue", whatever that means, but just "human rights."
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Twitter and Youtube are rather lousy in this regard too...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Putin is playing Trump like a fiddle, he is the poster boy for what used to be called "useful idiots".
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Back to theocracies, monarchies, kingdoms flooding US social media with their cash for access.
Users think they are using a free, protected US platform.
Or will a clean up of any negative comments be policy to keep the easy funding flowing?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"