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Facebook Inches Toward More Transparency and Accountability (eff.org)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Facebook took a step toward greater accountability this week, expanding the text of its community standards and announcing the rollout of a new system of appeals. Digital rights advocates have been pushing the company to be more transparent for nearly a decade, and many welcomed the announcements as a positive move for the social media giant. The changes are certainly a step in the right direction. Over the past year, following a series of controversial decisions about user expression, the company has begun to offer more transparency around its content policies and moderation practices, such as the "Hard Questions" series of blog posts offering insight into how the company makes decisions about different types of speech.
The expanded community standards released on Tuesday offer a much greater level of detail of what's verboten and why. Broken down into six overarching categories -- violence and criminal behavior, safety, objectionable content, integrity and authenticity, respecting intellectual property, and content-related requests -- each section comes with a "policy rationale" and bulleted lists of "do not post" items. Facebook's other announcement -- that of expanded appeals -- has received less media attention, but for many users, it's a vital development. In the platform's early days, content moderation decisions were final and could not be appealed. Then, in 2011, Facebook instituted a process through which users whose accounts had been suspended could apply to regain access. That process remained in place until this week.
The expanded community standards released on Tuesday offer a much greater level of detail of what's verboten and why. Broken down into six overarching categories -- violence and criminal behavior, safety, objectionable content, integrity and authenticity, respecting intellectual property, and content-related requests -- each section comes with a "policy rationale" and bulleted lists of "do not post" items. Facebook's other announcement -- that of expanded appeals -- has received less media attention, but for many users, it's a vital development. In the platform's early days, content moderation decisions were final and could not be appealed. Then, in 2011, Facebook instituted a process through which users whose accounts had been suspended could apply to regain access. That process remained in place until this week.
Please stop !
The SJWs will never permit that !!!
They will never permit Free Speech (or in the SJW parlance, hatespeech) to ever take place on Facebook
Even if I did believe any of this, and why exactly should I, why does Facebook think they deserve anything resembling trust anymore?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Don't look at the right hand molesting your children while the left hand is showing your rainbows and ponies. Your children are the real targets; they've remarkably efficient at getting money out of you.
Let's see the internals of what Facebook's code is doing with our data and the decisions it makes. Transparency is useless to me without seeing the blue prints. But sadly, I'll still use it to connect with friends.
Is FB a NSA project? I'm kind of a computer noob, however all I've heard is it is an NSA program from it's inception. If so, why should anyone ever, EVER!, trust whatever FaceBook says?
Come on BeauHD. That apologist headline is spinning the news in Facebook's favor. You must know that. I want the news as is. Not pre-spun.
Facebook themselves need to stop mining data. Until they commit to that, it's all quite literally meaningless.
The block-appeals process sounds pretty ineffectual, if it's being handled by the same people who are doing the blocking. Part of the problem there is that there are clearly people working for Facebook who don't understand the difference between a nude painting and a porn video, or who are so disgusted by a snapshot of two men kissing that they fire off a "BLOCK!" and move on to the next report. If you ask someone equally clueless/bigoted to review that decision (and there's no appeal available to protest their confirmation of that mistake) nothing actually gets better... but the PR pressure is off.
What they need is for these appeals to be treated like customer complaints, that go to the equivalent of Internal Affairs: people who actually want to support free expression, who'll not only say "oops, never mind" when their censors screw up, but also get those people trained/terminated so it happens less often.
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So apparently the only way to get your data actually deleted, sucker 'er' member or not, is to abuse the crap out of Facebook ie break all of it's community rules. So Facebook you lying pack of turd smuggling shit bagging privacy perverted fuck wit freak cunts, I hope when the 'space' aliens come, you anal retentive bunch of sick cunts get lined up against the wall and disintegrated first and that whilst they a disintegrating the crap out of Facebook executives and it's board, they steal all of Facebooks stuff and toss it into the Sun. I in my most humble way possible are requesting all space aliens to get onto this post haste. I hope that was enough to get me permanently deleted from Facebook.
How many of the bullshit rules (https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/violence_criminal_behavior/coordinating_harm) do you really need to break to ensure that your data is completely deleted. Just in case, by the way you pack of dead dog dick sucking anus brains at Facebook (IMO), you should not need to run scripts and allow your fucking cookies to read community standard guidelines and seriously what the fuck "Acts of physical harm committed against animals except in cases of hunting, fishing, religious sacrifice or food preparation/processing", RELIGIOUS SACRIFICE, what the fuckity fuck fuck, how about a religion based around the sacrifice of the animals on Facebooks board and executive team, I suppose for some fucking reason, you fuckwits think that is OK, just as long as I wrap it up in a make believe religion. You morons, anyone can make up any fucking religion they want and start torturing animals to death, Facebook board and executives including, you are fucking animals too you know (not that I am recommending that to any humans, only 'space aliens', hey it's a religion, so fuck off Facebook).
Take any of this seriously and you are a disturbed as the dick brains at Facebook.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Can Facebook prove it does not create profiles of non-Facebook users?
help ads and brands better track you.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Which of these did Diamond and Silk violate?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Khazar Talmudic Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (non-jews): Jews = biggest racists of all for which they "jew guilt" you for no less & you can't be racist vs. a religious cult like them (though they accuse YOU of it)!
They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were these nations banishing them a lie? Argentines in 1940 under Peron, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms, Spanish inquistion & Spain 1492 and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above. Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it (which JEWgle's JEWTube has blocked, there are links below though that are not blocked proving it is truth) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud. This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):
Mark Zuckerberg who STOLE facebook's code from the Winklevoss twins (who dusted him in court on it) calling his users "DUMB FUCKS" & spied on his collegiate classmates via 'fakebook', home of bots and spying/tracking you, now in court FRYING (rightfully so). He also PAID OFF the courts (by political contributions like Jew AIPAC does) on the MAJORITY of the council judges there. He STILL had to apologize!
Maria Abramovic satanist spirit cooker pal of Hillary Clinton the Voodoo queen is a jew https://www.google.com/search?...
Like Hillary Clinton's mentor Saul Alinsky author of rules for radicals book dedicated to Lucifer
John Podesta Hillary's pal again, is another JUDE with a pedophile brother (both = satanists too imo).
"Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer so I wasnâ(TM)t lying â" and we are his chosen people. Lucifer is very much aliveâ Harold Rosenthal http://www.thetruthseeker.co.u...
Jewish rabbi openly admits to satan worship use white children's blood they kill for passover bread (which THIS video covers in detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU8Y1743QoY/ & how they ran the black slave trade + how they say a prayer to KILL US ALL (goyim) during passover), infiltrating and subverting the catholic church, creating the Jesuit order https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?... too!
Barbara Spectre, a jew, tells everyone it's jews orchestrating the muslim migrant problem in Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ/ (now blocked by JEWgle JEWTube, but this one is not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85BKDj_1vVU/ ). No migrant raping of women in Poland. Tons in Sweden. Do the math. Use common-sense. This is to get muslims and other goyim/gentiles to wipe one another out as incompatible cultures that will clash and always have.
Rabbi A. Finkelstein ADMITS their greatest enemies are ARABS and WHITES (blacks too) whom they wish to k
Firstly the one thing people need to understand is that the data mining that has been going on is by third parties through Facebook's APIs with API keys aka Facebook Apps, that anyone has the ability to create and get immediate public access to Facebook's user base without any scrutiny from Facebook. Now they've made a number of revisions to their APIs and wound back a lot of the privileges however the lack of scrutiny is the issue.
Developing apps on most other platforms which open up users in an ecosystem to data mining by a third party usually involves submitting the app to the company that created the ecosystem. The process of getting an app published on Google or Apples market places is quite involved. Many apps never get authorised by Google's/Apple's platforms due to the app not meeting the platforms technical or privacy standards.
What Facebook needs is to stop this free for all public access to their APIs and restrict public access to apps that have passed some form of review process administered by a team at Facebook.
In Zuckerberg's testimony, he claimed that all those responsible for the collection of data used by Cambridge Analytica had been banned from the Facebook platform. However, not only does Joseph Chancellor still have an account with Facebook, he is an employee of the company providing him greater access than normal users. So, if Facebook wants to be transparent, could they answer the following questions:
(1) What investigation into the part that Joseph Chancellor played in the collection of data which was later used by Cambridge Analytica?
(2) What was the results of that investigation?
(3) Why is Joseph Chancellor still an employee of Facebook?
Facebook only wants one thing. Your information so they can sell targeted ads and ideology and do data analytics so they can do even more of the former.
No thanks. Iâ(TM)m better than that...and you should be too.
Quit Facebook!
Broken down into six overarching categories -- violence and criminal behavior, safety, objectionable content, integrity and authenticity, respecting intellectual property, and content-related requests
Six categories, or perhaps eight, if, you mess, with Oxford, commas.
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our six categories are..."