> Facebook has no clue what kind of stuff gets posted on their platform
Of course they do. People report.
And in my personal experience, Facebook always(!) replies "not against community standards", even when clear-cut crimes like rape threats.
Of course they do. People report.
And in my personal experience, Facebook always(!) replies "not against community standards", even when clear-cut crimes like rape threats.
On the other hand, a Facebook group I created for my CS course with a few hundred members and just a bunch of helpful course material and questions vanished for a few months without any sort of warning or notification, and showed up like it had never been gone in the first place. I tried to contact Facebook, even finding a form specifically for groups that vanish, and got no reply whatsoever. I still don't know what the hell happened there.
Also, report it to the police with all the evidence and screenshots you've got and just let them handle it.
It might not bring down Facebook on its own, but it will add to all the other demands that Facebook needs to get a better handle on this sort of thing.
A criminal conviction of a Facebook employee would make a good story, but that is much harder.
I just imagine if someone found a snuff video on my basement that I would be in violation of a law.
I wouldn't be surprised if after seeing videos of babies being killed, people being beheaded and hung, that some sperm yelling at women might not even register to them as a bad thing.
Facebook needs some blame too.
Social networks already make it harder to maintain these standards because they dissociate their subjects from one another. It's easier for me to send you a death threat if, to me, you're just a bunch of words I disagree with under a profile picture.
They also facilitate the mobilization of like-minded people at an awesome scale, however widely unaccepted their behavior is. If you can get your sense of social belonging satisfied by 100000 other pedophiles from all over the world on a social network, why should you conform to any widely recognized social standard? Why should you work on your problems when thousands of rape apologists are patting your back and reinforcing your delusions?
Finally, social networks exploit these weaknesses, exploit our sense of pride and our ideas of what is right and wrong. More polarized and controversial information leads to more discussion. More discussion leads to more social data. More social data leads to better ads. There is an incentive for social networks to push objectionable and worthless information. The relationship is perhaps indirect in that it just happens to be the best way to turn a profit, but we shouldn't let our social standards budge for a system that is designed to maximize a profit margin.
Yes, but the damage has been done then. Parent is right. Facebook doesn't know what is being posted, only afterwards, when people tell them, then they know.
There isn't a significant portion of users that condone these threats. I will still be held against anyone not wanting to give facebook more control over content.