Sheryl Sandberg also claimed that Facebook's problem is that they've been "way too idealistic." I don't know people who work for or run Facebook believe this, but if they do, it shows the power of self-deception—after 15 years of deeds, this doesn't hold. https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-tour-hasnt-fixed-facebook/ …
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We do; I'm content with post-hoc reporting and mitigation by taking out the account + anyone linked to the offensive material upstream. But that's not good enough for you; it's more important that a human being play god, & then we have another battle: for a beneficent god.
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Once a human is in the "censor" role, they will be a point of focus for every agenda and vendetta and conspiracy theory — consider what happened to Facebook's "trending topic" editors, while they were still employed. But, hey, thankfully you are not in charge.
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It is perfectly reasonable to block streaming of murder, but once such a global infrastructure is in place, "bad people" can use force to gain access to it. How do we prevent it from becoming a Pandora's box of its own? We haven't solved that problem yet.
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That is absolutely a solved problem. This is not a real dilemma. There are real dilemmas and trade-offs. This isn’t an example.
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Fwiw, censoring, say, suicides doesn’t imply yielding to dictators (Alec likes his slippery slope argument) but it is far from trivial. Teams who handle this (Politics, Law enfrcmt, Security) have to spent political capital they might not have. It hurts credibility to dismiss it.
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It’s not tinfoil contries either: France & Germany will demand to ban Nazi proactively (which won’t work), the current executive in Hungary, Poland, USA are not really above using police for political purposes. We should respect that those in charge try to balance a difficult set
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