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Facebook Is Sorry for Taking Down a Photo of a Nude Neptune Statue (fortune.com)
Facebook has apologized for mistakenly blocking a photo of a famous statue for being "sexually explicit." From a report on Fortune: The social media giant flagged a photograph of a 16th-century statue of the sea god Neptune in the Italian city of Bologna. The picture of the sculpture -- which was created in the 1560s -- was featured on the Facebook page of local writer and art historian Elisa Barbari called "Stories, curiosities and view of Bologna." Facebook told Barbari that the picture violated the company's privacy policies. "It shows an image with content that is explicitly sexual and which excessively shows the body or unnecessarily concentrates on body parts," the company said in a statement. The company added: "The usage of images or video of nude bodies or plunging necklines is not allowed, even if the use is for artistic or educational reasons." Facebook later said that blocking the photo was a mistake.
As they said in the article they are processing million of images and that's expected to have some false positive. There is no way in the world a human can review every single photo posted. I think it's a story out of nothing special.
A picture of a guy with his wang out is only ok on Facebook if it's rock hard?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
There's zero chance that an "image detection algorithm" flagged that statue. Zero.
Yes, the image detection algorithm that flagged that, automatically, is clearly a conspiracy to control "fake news".
You are kinda dumb aren't you?
The "controlling fake news" conspiracy literally is this. You now have the option when flagging a story, to mark it as fake news. That's it. It's not even an automated process (yet) it's literally giving YOU the ability to alert THEM to fake stories.
So, unless you are an asshole spreading bullshit fake news, you should be happy. But going from your tone, I think we all know you are all up in that pizzagate... Right?
"Fake news" only became a big deal when Democrats and the media that said Hillary! would win had to excuse her loss instead.
Want to talk about "fake news"? Now half of all Democrat voters actually believe that the Russian government directly affected vote counts to allow Trump to win.
Now there's some "fake, narrative-driven news" for you - all for the Democrat's and partisan media's goal to delegitimize Trump's win.
And it's brought to you by the same folks at CBS, ABC, NBC, The New York Times, and of course the "Russians-also-hacked-the-electricity-grid-ooops-forget-we-published-that" Washington Post:
'Fake News' And How The Washington Post Rewrote Its Story On Russian Hacking Of The Power Grid
But don't worry, hate-filled racist "jokes" and biased fake news stories are still A-OK. Facebook has it's priorities straight.
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Logic tells me a schlong is a schlong.
Sculpture or real, it should either be ok to post it or not okay to post it.
Personally, I think the over-reactive attitude we here in America have about human body parts is annoyingly illogical.
They have ads and movies with (omg, quick, cover your eyes!!!) bare breasts for everyone to see in parts of Europe, and the people in those countries seem to do just fine.
Yes. And nipples. That's why religious folks don't breastfeed or they cover the infant's eyes to that it can't see those filthy disgusting *gasp* NIPPLES!
Because the child will be irreparably harmed if it should see a *whispering* N-I-P-P-L-E.
It's better to distract them with a nice wholesome video game where they can blow fake people's heads off.
They meant to block a statue of Uranus. They just got the wrong god.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
I think letting kids believe the world is some kind of Disney-fied wonderland can ultimately prove harmful when they suddenly become aware that THEY have genitals. And they will become aware of that.
Should kids be sat down and made to watch hentai? Of course not.
Should kids be shielded from ever seeing that there is anything sexual anywhere ever? Of course not.
Should kids be given an explanation about what sex is? Definitely.
Are kids going to be traumatically scarred by seeing an anatomically correct statue on Facebook? Only if you have utterly and miserably failed in preparing them for the Real World.
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