Facebook pledges to do more on self-harm

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47029082

by codermobile • 7 years ago

2 2 7 years ago

I believe there's a really interesting parallel between Facebook and TPB.

TPB did everything in it's power to push the stance that, 'We run the site, what users use our site for is not our responsibility'.

Whereas Facebook takes responsibility for its' users, and the impact is has on them.

The interesting thing about this model is that; When a site shirks responsibility for its' users, it has no interest in moderating who joins / who can use it TPB doesn't even have mandatory 'accounts'. You would think, if Facebook was truly interested in supporting a healthy community of users, it would impose restrictions on who joins.

It would be the most evil win/win in technological history. Facebook running background checks on potential users before joining. All that data? They could vet potential 'threats' to their 'community', and sell what their allowed to retain to marketing companies. Now you have a heavily moderated social networking site that lives up to your 'The Good Place' reality.

LeoSolaris• 7 years ago

Just one word, only two little letters, really transforms the meaning on that sentence. Not that the deletion of the word 'on' wouldn't also result in an accurate statement...

Facebook pledges to do more on self-harm

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