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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."
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.
MSM stopped reporting the news a long time ago. It is now just propaganda for the power class. See WikiLeaks for evidence.
It is Hackers breaking news, and the "networks" trying to keep a lid on it all.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
The irony is that many of those same SJW's want Facebook, Twitter, et. al. to take down content that disagrees with them ("disagrees with my position = "hate speech" in SJW-World, of course). So, a more accurate summary might be "SJW's demand to know what content Facebook is taking down so they can make sure that they're is only taking down anti-SJW content."
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
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"
I am a "baby boomer" (supposedly, and depending on when the end date actually is).
A lot of babyboomers (people older than me) have disconnected from the MSM (Newspapers, TV) completely. They aren't getting "news" at all, because they find it unreliable. The REAL people in love with MSM are the progressives who love pointing to the echo chamber of the MSM for all their own view points.
For instance, these people are the ones that cannot formulate a single coherent reason why Clinton should be president, except "she has a vagina". And it doesn't matter what WikiLeaks has on her (RUSSIANS!!!!). She could be involved in child sex slavery and they would still vote for her.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
People also do not need to be nice people. It makes the world a better place when people are kind and considerate to each other, but there is not law requiring you to be polite. Doesn't mean we don't want people to be nice. We also talk about people having social obligations. These obligations are not mandated by law, but instead by your own personal sense of decency. Corporations are (or should be) the same. They should be 'nice' because it makes the world a better place.
The REAL people in love with MSM are the progressives who love pointing to the echo chamber
This.
Last Sunday night at 9PM ET an outfit operating from a spare bedroom in Alabama streamed a Trump rally from NM to Facebook. No MSM filter. No MSM commentary condemning everything said as RaYSiSt!!1.
3.2 million views in less than 2 hours..... on a Sunday night. Several times more eyeballs than all of the cable news echo chamber combined during the same period.
ESPN SJW crap and malcontent NFL players are driving away viewers so fast that Major League Baseball is starting to win the ratings war for the first time in thirty years. The last reason many people had to pay for cable — pro football — is being ruined by the echo chamber and 621,000 subscriptions ended last month.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!