Censorship
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It’s good to have Zuck see the light on this issue.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/its-gone-too-far-mark-zuckerberg-ends-facebook-fact-checking-by-blaming-legacy-media-and-inclusive-movement/
https://www.mediaite.com/online/its-gone-too-far-mark-zuckerberg-ends-facebook-fact-checking-by-blaming-legacy-media-and-inclusive-movement/
If only he had done this years ago.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/meta-ends-fact-checking-program-zuckerberg-vows-restore-free-expression-facebook-instagram
Meta is ending its fact-checking program and lifting restrictions on speech to "restore free expression" across Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms, admitting its current content moderation practices have "gone too far."
Nebfanatic
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Alot there to verify the guy is real. Funny how they have such similar voices and kinda crazy this guy would go as far as to spend 20 minutes ranting about how Elon should be able to use Ketamine as much as he wants but people are called fans for a reason. They are fanatics such as myself
Guy Chamberlin
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Ah, the sweet breath of freedom:
Calling women ‘household objects’ now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines
Meta is making big changes to its hateful conduct policy, hours after it said it would do away with fact checkers.
Alicia Windzio/dpa/picture alliance/Getty Images
New YorkCNN —
Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to how it moderates content that will roll out in the coming months, including doing away with professional fact checking. But the company also quietly updated its hateful conduct policy, adding new types of content users can post on the platform, effective immediately.
Users are now allowed to, for example, refer to “women as household objects or property” or “transgender or non-binary people as ‘it,’” according to a section of the policy prohibiting such speech that was crossed out. A new section of the policy notes Meta will allow “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality.”
Previously, such comments would have been subject to removal under the policy. The changes to Meta’s hateful conduct policy were first reported by Wired.
Meta had hinted in its announcement about its content moderation policy changes Tuesday morning that it would get rid of restrictions on certain topics, such as immigration and gender identity, and allow more political discussions. But the updated policy shows just how quickly Meta is moving to enact CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for “free expression.”
Related articleMeta is getting rid of fact checkers. Zuckerberg acknowledged more harmful content will appear on the platforms now
Meta on Tuesday also announced it would do away with its network of independent fact checkers in the United States and will instead rely on user-generated “community notes” to add context to posts. It also said it would adjust its automated systems that scan for policy violations, which it says have resulted in “too much content being censored that shouldn’t have been.” The systems will now be focused only on extreme violations such as child sexual exploitation and terrorism.
Zuckerberg acknowledged that the new approach will mean “that we’re going to catch less bad stuff, but we’ll also reduce the number of innocent people’s posts and accounts that we accidentally take down.”
A Meta spokesperson noted that the company will continue to prohibit attacks against certain groups, such as those based on ethnicity, race and religion, as well as prohibiting slurs, under the policy. And the spokesperson said that the company will continue enforce its policies against targeted bullying and harassment, as well as incitement of violence.
The company’s Tuesday changes come as the company and its leader have sought to curry favor with Donald Trump and other Republicans ahead of the president-elect’s second term, echoing in its announcement longstanding criticisms that Meta was “censoring” conservative voices.
Trump welcomed the changes in a press conference Tuesday and said he thinks the changes are “probably” due to threats he’s made to Zuckerberg in the past. But some experts who study the online information ecosystem raised alarms that the changes could lead to more viral false claims and hate speech on Meta’s platforms.
Among the other changes to Meta’s hateful conduct policy, the company removed a prohibition against statements denying the existence of “protected” groups, such as statements that a certain group of people doesn’t or shouldn’t exist. The policy also now allows for content arguing in favor of “gender-based limitations of military, law enforcement, and teaching jobs.”
The company also updated its “misinformation” policy to note the dissolution of its US-based fact-checking network.
Calling women ‘household objects’ now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines
Meta is making big changes to its hateful conduct policy, hours after it said it would do away with fact checkers.
Alicia Windzio/dpa/picture alliance/Getty Images
New YorkCNN —
Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to how it moderates content that will roll out in the coming months, including doing away with professional fact checking. But the company also quietly updated its hateful conduct policy, adding new types of content users can post on the platform, effective immediately.
Users are now allowed to, for example, refer to “women as household objects or property” or “transgender or non-binary people as ‘it,’” according to a section of the policy prohibiting such speech that was crossed out. A new section of the policy notes Meta will allow “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality.”
Previously, such comments would have been subject to removal under the policy. The changes to Meta’s hateful conduct policy were first reported by Wired.
Meta had hinted in its announcement about its content moderation policy changes Tuesday morning that it would get rid of restrictions on certain topics, such as immigration and gender identity, and allow more political discussions. But the updated policy shows just how quickly Meta is moving to enact CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for “free expression.”
Related articleMeta is getting rid of fact checkers. Zuckerberg acknowledged more harmful content will appear on the platforms now
Meta on Tuesday also announced it would do away with its network of independent fact checkers in the United States and will instead rely on user-generated “community notes” to add context to posts. It also said it would adjust its automated systems that scan for policy violations, which it says have resulted in “too much content being censored that shouldn’t have been.” The systems will now be focused only on extreme violations such as child sexual exploitation and terrorism.
Zuckerberg acknowledged that the new approach will mean “that we’re going to catch less bad stuff, but we’ll also reduce the number of innocent people’s posts and accounts that we accidentally take down.”
A Meta spokesperson noted that the company will continue to prohibit attacks against certain groups, such as those based on ethnicity, race and religion, as well as prohibiting slurs, under the policy. And the spokesperson said that the company will continue enforce its policies against targeted bullying and harassment, as well as incitement of violence.
The company’s Tuesday changes come as the company and its leader have sought to curry favor with Donald Trump and other Republicans ahead of the president-elect’s second term, echoing in its announcement longstanding criticisms that Meta was “censoring” conservative voices.
Trump welcomed the changes in a press conference Tuesday and said he thinks the changes are “probably” due to threats he’s made to Zuckerberg in the past. But some experts who study the online information ecosystem raised alarms that the changes could lead to more viral false claims and hate speech on Meta’s platforms.
Among the other changes to Meta’s hateful conduct policy, the company removed a prohibition against statements denying the existence of “protected” groups, such as statements that a certain group of people doesn’t or shouldn’t exist. The policy also now allows for content arguing in favor of “gender-based limitations of military, law enforcement, and teaching jobs.”
The company also updated its “misinformation” policy to note the dissolution of its US-based fact-checking network.
Zuck transcript: Honestly he is probably just an opportunist, but the bold below would suggest Facebook was not the platform of free expression before this.
https://www.techpolicy.press/transcript-mark-zuckerberg-announces-major-changes-to-metas-content-moderation-policies-and-operations/
. So, we're going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms. More specifically, here's what we're going to do.
https://www.techpolicy.press/transcript-mark-zuckerberg-announces-major-changes-to-metas-content-moderation-policies-and-operations/
. So, we're going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms. More specifically, here's what we're going to do.
Guy Chamberlin
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teachercd
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I mean, I get your point but if they have access to FB or Twitter they already have access to porn in about 697,897,932 other ways.
My Dad hid a Playboy in his closet under some stuff on the shelf and I found it and I was not even looking for it. I was just "searching".
You, as the parent, should be the one who decides what your kid can or can't see. You would not let your kids just pop in a porno and watch it on the big screen at home, right? So why would you let them watch it on their phone/tablet? You wouldn't, so just control it and if you can't, take their s#!t away from them.
If you were driving on the interstate and saw a billboard for a stripclub would you tell your kids to close their eyes or duck down until you passed the billboard?
It reminds me of this
funhusker
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I get what your saying. But this is more like the billboard have a live feed to the strip club rather than an address and a girl in her underwear. People currently have access to adult sites, they also have access to nazi sites, ISIS sites, far-left liberal sites, etc. It doesn't mean that social media, seen as the public square by people championing free speech, needs to host and spread these sites as well.
It's all just weird to me, that even though those sites are readily available, people want to share the location of their next anti-women meme right after congratulating Grandma on her successful hip surgery.
teachercd
Active member
I totally get it. It is weird to me too.
I can only imagine the stuff people can find if they dig deep enough.