Meta's new content policy will harm vulnerable users
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2021 article on how FB's response to CSAM were inadequate: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59063768
(2021) FB creates extremists, and that's OK with them? https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-knew-radical...
(2024) drug sales https://nypost.com/2024/03/16/us-news/feds-investigating-met...
and on and on. It's hard to believe their mitigations are anything more than legal facades to protect them from maximum culpability.
The emperor may be choosing to wear no clothes, but it was a sheer nighty before.
For everyone else? It’s a feature.
The cruelty is the point.
The only thing I see that's wrong about this is that I don't pay the EFF to tell private companies what to do. I pay them to stop the government from turning fascist.
They're not wrong about Facebook being a POS and these new policies making it moreso, though.
I wouldn't give the EFF a dime.
What is a massive red flag to me is the government telling a business what they can and can't publish. Putin, for example, loves to do that.
Still recommended viewing?
The EFF however is at least supposed to stand for basic human rights. Like free speech. At least it got a mention in the title, but frankly the author of this article doesn't care at all about it, and doesn't understand the basic principle of why it's important to protect the speech of people they disagree with. So taking a plain view, they're a hateful anti-human rights activist. Not sure why i'd listen to what an anti human rights activist has to say.
You are posting this in a thread and a story about Meta literally saying a certain class of people are considered second class citizens and thus it's perfectly okay to sling slurs and harassment at them.
You do realize this, right? Like you are saying that the company with zero morality telling it's users it's okay to harass people is better than the EFF calling them out. Like if you actually stand for human rights you should be horrified at Meta's actions.