One thing that the Internet has exposed, for good and bad, is simply the scale and pervasiveness of such abuse. The internet both facilitates it, and makes it easier to catch it. To say that people at tech companies don't care about this does them a great injustice.
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This is like the one area where tech companies universally *haven't* shirked their responsibilities. I was talking to someone on the FB safety team the other day about how thorny a problem tracking CP groups on whatsapp is given the end to end encryption on the platform
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Yeah this is like the example I teach of how tech companies can and do take responsibility for content.
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Gosh I wonder why people are hitting the tech companies so hard over this. It’s a mystery.
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Organizing the world’s information. Except when it comes to CP then it’s a tragedy but just too hard, you see.
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For me, I don't think one follows automatically from the other. It could absolutely be true that Facebook enables abuse at a scale that wasn't possible without it.
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Facebook has aggressively been targeting kids for some time. The 2012 lawsuit very objectively shows the evidence of that. They might be peddling a perception of caring about kids, but their execs emails and actions contradict their spin. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/25/revealed-facebook-let-kids-run-up-huge-bills-maximise-revenue …
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This is a complete non-sequitur.
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