BREAKING: Facebook Promises To Take Action On Domestic Violence Content
This is why women who fight this are NOT PSYCHO for doing so.
Fighting it is right.
Waving a white flag and letting misogynists promote their hate does NOTHING to improve the online experience for so many young girls and women who are being taught by such inaction that they can NEVER expect better.
Well yes they fucking can.
The company promises to complete a review of its community standards on hate speech, update training for the staff that review harmful content, increase accountability for the creators of the content, and establish new partnerships with women’s rights groups. Additionally, Facebook will encourage international anti-defamation groups it works with to include women’s groups in their conversations.
Here is an excerpt of Facebook’s statement:
In recent days, it has become clear that our systems to identify and remove hate speech have failed to work as effectively as we would like, particularly around issues of gender-based hate. In some cases, content is not being removed as quickly as we want. In other cases, content that should be removed has not been or has been evaluated using outdated criteria. We have been working over the past several months to improve our systems to respond to reports of violations, but the guidelines used by these systems have failed to capture all the content that violates our standards. We need to do better –and we will.
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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/28/2070411/breaking-facebook-promises-to-take-action-on-domestic-violence-content/
Well, this is a promising development.
Not quite ready to bust out the woohoo smiley, yet. Hopefully soon.
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for this by RQ:
This is why women who fight this are NOT PSYCHO for doing so.
Fighting it is right.
Waving a white flag and letting misogynists promote their hate does NOTHING to improve the online experience for so many young girls and women who are being taught by such inaction that they can NEVER expect better.
Well yes they fucking can.
When I was a GS leader I had parents ask me how I got their daughters to do things/behave. My stock answer was because they knew I expected them to. People will only live up to what is expected of them. Seems like FB is learning that lesson.
