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We can barely agree on what constitutes hate speech in the U.S.; fb is expecting to define and police hate speech globally?

Well, they operate globally and are under media and political pressure globally, so yes, they have no choice but to try to do that.

Not to mention legal pressure, given that most of the world bans hate speech. (Japan is the only other country in the world that I've found which has a strong protection for free speech equivalent to the US, and they got it because the constitution was drafted after the US victory in WW2)

From Facebook's perspective, what is the alternative? _Not_ trying to define censorship guidelines - and consequently (as we saw in Myanmar) enabling genocide?

Damned if they try, damned if they don't

That would be the route of framing themselves as a common carrier, as opposed to the current model of a content-promoting, editorializing publisher.

>what is the alternative?

How about not having a news feed algorithm and business model that promotes and profits from outrage and negative emotional contagions?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/06/28/facebo...

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