Facebook Are 'Morally Bankrupt Liars' Says New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner (theguardian.com)

New Zealand's privacy commissioner has lashed out at social media giant Facebook in the wake of the Christchurch attacks, calling the company "morally bankrupt pathological liars." From a report: The commissioner used his personal Twitter page to lambast the social network, which has also drawn the ire of prime minister Jacinda Ardern for hosting a livestream of the attacks that left 50 dead, which was then copied and shared all over the internet. "Facebook cannot be trusted," wrote Edwards. "They are morally bankrupt pathological liars who enable genocide (Myanmar), facilitate foreign undermining of democratic institutions. [They] allow the live streaming of suicides, rapes, and murders, continue to host and publish the mosque attack video, allow advertisers to target 'Jew haters' and other hateful market segments, and refuse to accept any responsibility for any content or harm. "They #dontgiveazuck" wrote Edwards. He later deleted the tweets, saying they had prompted "toxic and misinformed traffic."

Comments

Re:Clueless

[Anonymous Coward]

That excuse might have worked ten years ago. After a decade of this bullshit it doesn't fly now.

Re:Moderation is not easy.

[dAzED1]

FB got as large as it did by disregarding all privacy or reasonable content controls. They weren't stupid, they didn't accidentally get where they are - they designed it that way on purpose. That's where they get their billions. Saying "well, it's too big to do that" is stupid. Yes, doing privacy controls after the fact is more expensive...but that's true for all companies and all scopes of software, it's not unique to large places. They didn't do that type of content 3 years ago. So, if they can't figure out how to keep live vids of rapes and mass murders off their platform, they should end that entire aspect of their platform. They should NOT profit off such things.

So?

[Comboman]

When you ban a weirdo, he gets driven to a smaller website of other banned weirdos

You say that like it's somehow a bad thing. Getting the weirdos out of mainstream channels and into their own private echo-chambers means vulnerable people (teens, mentally challenged and unstable people, etc) aren't exposed to their weirdness and are far less likely to join them.

Pot Calling Kettle Black

[Venona2018]

If you are in New Zealand, you can get up to 10 years in jail just for having the shooter's manifesto in your possession:

Link Here

Ten Years. For having a hateful text document on your computer.

I would call that morally bankrupt.