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Leroy N. Soetoro
Jan 3, 2018, 1:10:15 PM1/3/18
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/facebook-is-losing-the-war-on-
hate-speech
Just four days after the 2016 election, Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg
declared in a defensive post from his personal account that “99% of what
people see” on Facebook “is authentic.” But as more evidence has emerged
of the social-media giant’s shortcomings, the tone of its higher-ups has
correspondingly shifted—early last month, Facebook executive Elliot
Schrage admitted to a group of political professionals that the company
was “wrong” to have “resisted having standards about whether something’s
newsworthy,” and a recent ProPublica investigation spurred the company to
admit that its policy regarding hate speech is equally faulty.
In an analysis of almost 1,000 crowd-sourced posts, reporters at
ProPublica found that Facebook fails to evenly enforce its own community
standards. A sample of 49 of the 900 posts were sent directly to Facebook,
which admitted that in 22 cases its human reviewers had erred, mistakenly
flagging frank conversations about sexism or racism as hate speech. Nor
does the company offer a formal appeal process for decisions its users
disagree with, meaning that when it banned comedian Marcia Belsky for 30
days for posting “men are scum” in response to a friend’s photo album, and
Boston poet and Black Lives Matter activist Didi Delgado for writing in a
post, “All white people are racist. Start from this reference point, or
you’ve already failed,” they had no recourse.
In response to ProPublica’s findings, Facebook Vice President Justin
Osofsky said in a statement, “We’re sorry for the mistakes we have
made—they do not reflect the community we want to help build.” He added
that Facebook would “do better” by doubling the size of its safety and
security team in the new year. Other tech executives have increasingly
echoed Osofsky’s tone as they’re faced with concrete information forcing
them to come to terms with what they’ve wrought. “I lay awake at night
thinking about all the things we built in the early days and what we could
have done to avoid the product being used this way,” one early former
Facebook employee told my colleague Nick Bilton in October, while former
Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya told CNN in November that he
“absolutely [felt] guilt . . . Nobody ever thought that you could have
such a massive manipulation of the system. You can see the reaction of the
people who run these companies. They never thought it was possible.”
As Silicon Valley begins to look askance at Big Tech, so too does Capitol
Hill, where lawmakers are weighing a series of regulations on companies
that have heretofore been given a free pass. The pace of regulatory
legislation is progressing even more rapidly abroad; beginning this year,
Germany will enforce a law requiring social-media sites—including
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, but also more broadly applying to Web
sites like Tumblr, Reddit, and Vimeo—to act within 24 hours to remove
illegal material, hate speech, and misinformation. Failure to do so could
lead to fines of up to 50 million euros, or about $60 million. Though
Germany’s new law is the most extreme example of European regulators
cracking down on tech companies, it is not the only one. Last year, the
European Commission brought significant rulings against Google, and in
recent weeks the British government’s ethics committee has reportedly
encouraged British Prime Minister Theresa May to sue tech companies that
do not promptly remove abusive content.
Such discourse is especially jarring in the wake of political protests
that have broken out in Iran; during the Arab Spring of 2010 and 2011,
companies like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube were lauded as mass tools of
egalitarianism, leveling the playing field and publicizing a grassroots
political revolution. “It wasn’t about the technology; it was about the
people,” Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has said of his platform as a
political organizing mechanism. “It just happens to be that Twitter was
the right tool at the right place and right time.” Now, however, Twitter
has been used as a conduit to spread misinformation about the protests.
The company’s connotation as a force for good seems to have evaporated at
the same pace as a certain former real-estate mogul has adopted it as a
way to spew unfiltered toxicity. Even C.E.O. Jack Dorsey seemingly used
the holidays to unplug from the stew of his own platform—“Just finished a
10 day silent meditation. Wow, what a reset!” he tweeted on New Year’s
Day. “Fortunate & grateful I was able to take the time. Happy New Year!”
--
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
hate-speech
Just four days after the 2016 election, Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg
declared in a defensive post from his personal account that “99% of what
people see” on Facebook “is authentic.” But as more evidence has emerged
of the social-media giant’s shortcomings, the tone of its higher-ups has
correspondingly shifted—early last month, Facebook executive Elliot
Schrage admitted to a group of political professionals that the company
was “wrong” to have “resisted having standards about whether something’s
newsworthy,” and a recent ProPublica investigation spurred the company to
admit that its policy regarding hate speech is equally faulty.
In an analysis of almost 1,000 crowd-sourced posts, reporters at
ProPublica found that Facebook fails to evenly enforce its own community
standards. A sample of 49 of the 900 posts were sent directly to Facebook,
which admitted that in 22 cases its human reviewers had erred, mistakenly
flagging frank conversations about sexism or racism as hate speech. Nor
does the company offer a formal appeal process for decisions its users
disagree with, meaning that when it banned comedian Marcia Belsky for 30
days for posting “men are scum” in response to a friend’s photo album, and
Boston poet and Black Lives Matter activist Didi Delgado for writing in a
post, “All white people are racist. Start from this reference point, or
you’ve already failed,” they had no recourse.
In response to ProPublica’s findings, Facebook Vice President Justin
Osofsky said in a statement, “We’re sorry for the mistakes we have
made—they do not reflect the community we want to help build.” He added
that Facebook would “do better” by doubling the size of its safety and
security team in the new year. Other tech executives have increasingly
echoed Osofsky’s tone as they’re faced with concrete information forcing
them to come to terms with what they’ve wrought. “I lay awake at night
thinking about all the things we built in the early days and what we could
have done to avoid the product being used this way,” one early former
Facebook employee told my colleague Nick Bilton in October, while former
Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya told CNN in November that he
“absolutely [felt] guilt . . . Nobody ever thought that you could have
such a massive manipulation of the system. You can see the reaction of the
people who run these companies. They never thought it was possible.”
As Silicon Valley begins to look askance at Big Tech, so too does Capitol
Hill, where lawmakers are weighing a series of regulations on companies
that have heretofore been given a free pass. The pace of regulatory
legislation is progressing even more rapidly abroad; beginning this year,
Germany will enforce a law requiring social-media sites—including
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, but also more broadly applying to Web
sites like Tumblr, Reddit, and Vimeo—to act within 24 hours to remove
illegal material, hate speech, and misinformation. Failure to do so could
lead to fines of up to 50 million euros, or about $60 million. Though
Germany’s new law is the most extreme example of European regulators
cracking down on tech companies, it is not the only one. Last year, the
European Commission brought significant rulings against Google, and in
recent weeks the British government’s ethics committee has reportedly
encouraged British Prime Minister Theresa May to sue tech companies that
do not promptly remove abusive content.
Such discourse is especially jarring in the wake of political protests
that have broken out in Iran; during the Arab Spring of 2010 and 2011,
companies like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube were lauded as mass tools of
egalitarianism, leveling the playing field and publicizing a grassroots
political revolution. “It wasn’t about the technology; it was about the
people,” Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has said of his platform as a
political organizing mechanism. “It just happens to be that Twitter was
the right tool at the right place and right time.” Now, however, Twitter
has been used as a conduit to spread misinformation about the protests.
The company’s connotation as a force for good seems to have evaporated at
the same pace as a certain former real-estate mogul has adopted it as a
way to spew unfiltered toxicity. Even C.E.O. Jack Dorsey seemingly used
the holidays to unplug from the stew of his own platform—“Just finished a
10 day silent meditation. Wow, what a reset!” he tweeted on New Year’s
Day. “Fortunate & grateful I was able to take the time. Happy New Year!”
--
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
NoBody
Jan 4, 2018, 8:35:32 AM1/4/18
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 18:10:14 -0000 (UTC), "Leroy N. Soetoro"
<leroys...@bho-rejected.com> wrote:
>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/facebook-is-losing-the-war-on-
>hate-speech
>
>Just four days after the 2016 election, Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg
>declared in a defensive post from his personal account that “99% of what
>people see” on Facebook “is authentic.” But as more evidence has emerged
>of the social-media giant’s shortcomings, the tone of its higher-ups has
>correspondingly shifted—early last month, Facebook executive Elliot
>Schrage admitted to a group of political professionals that the company
>was “wrong” to have “resisted having standards about whether something’s
>newsworthy,” and a recent ProPublica investigation spurred the company to
>admit that its policy regarding hate speech is equally faulty.
>
>In an analysis of almost 1,000 crowd-sourced posts, reporters at
>ProPublica found that Facebook fails to evenly enforce its own community
>standards. A sample of 49 of the 900 posts were sent directly to Facebook,
>which admitted that in 22 cases its human reviewers had erred, mistakenly
>flagging frank conversations about sexism or racism as hate speech. Nor
>does the company offer a formal appeal process for decisions its users
>disagree with, meaning that when it banned comedian Marcia Belsky for 30
>days for posting “men are scum” in response to a friend’s photo album, and
>Boston poet and Black Lives Matter activist Didi Delgado for writing in a
>post, “All white people are racist. Start from this reference point, or
>you’ve already failed,” they had no recourse.
>
Facebook is notorious for banning anything that might be threatening
<leroys...@bho-rejected.com> wrote:
>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/facebook-is-losing-the-war-on-
>hate-speech
>
>Just four days after the 2016 election, Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg
>declared in a defensive post from his personal account that “99% of what
>people see” on Facebook “is authentic.” But as more evidence has emerged
>of the social-media giant’s shortcomings, the tone of its higher-ups has
>correspondingly shifted—early last month, Facebook executive Elliot
>Schrage admitted to a group of political professionals that the company
>was “wrong” to have “resisted having standards about whether something’s
>newsworthy,” and a recent ProPublica investigation spurred the company to
>admit that its policy regarding hate speech is equally faulty.
>
>In an analysis of almost 1,000 crowd-sourced posts, reporters at
>ProPublica found that Facebook fails to evenly enforce its own community
>standards. A sample of 49 of the 900 posts were sent directly to Facebook,
>which admitted that in 22 cases its human reviewers had erred, mistakenly
>flagging frank conversations about sexism or racism as hate speech. Nor
>does the company offer a formal appeal process for decisions its users
>disagree with, meaning that when it banned comedian Marcia Belsky for 30
>days for posting “men are scum” in response to a friend’s photo album, and
>Boston poet and Black Lives Matter activist Didi Delgado for writing in a
>post, “All white people are racist. Start from this reference point, or
>you’ve already failed,” they had no recourse.
>
to a lib while allowing outright threats be made against
conservatives. Community "standards" are applied one-sidedly.
Siri Cruise
Jan 4, 2018, 11:44:52 AM1/4/18
to
In article <lcbs4dt89nrbgda85...@4ax.com>,
any programmers willing to work for you.
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'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' /|\
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NoBody <NoB...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> Facebook is notorious for banning anything that might be threatening
> to a lib while allowing outright threats be made against
> conservatives. Community "standards" are applied one-sidedly.
And still not a common carrier. Start your own facebook, assuming you can find
> Facebook is notorious for banning anything that might be threatening
> to a lib while allowing outright threats be made against
> conservatives. Community "standards" are applied one-sidedly.
any programmers willing to work for you.
--
:-<> Siri Seal of Disavowal #000-001. Disavowed. Denied. Deleted. @
'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' /|\
I'm saving up to buy the Donald a blue stone This post / \
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Clave
Jan 4, 2018, 11:51:12 AM1/4/18
to
On 1/4/2018 9:44 AM, Siri Cruise wrote:
> In article <lcbs4dt89nrbgda85...@4ax.com>,
> NoBody <NoB...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> Facebook is notorious for banning anything that might be threatening
>> to a lib while allowing outright threats be made against
>> conservatives. Community "standards" are applied one-sidedly.
>
> And still not a common carrier.
Irrelevant!
> In article <lcbs4dt89nrbgda85...@4ax.com>,
> NoBody <NoB...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> Facebook is notorious for banning anything that might be threatening
>> to a lib while allowing outright threats be made against
>> conservatives. Community "standards" are applied one-sidedly.
>
> And still not a common carrier.
Same for Twitter.
> Start your own facebook, assuming you can find
> any programmers willing to work for you.
Rudy Canoza
Jan 4, 2018, 11:51:39 AM1/4/18
to
2. Bullshit.
Clave
Jan 4, 2018, 11:53:57 AM1/4/18
to
On 1/4/2018 9:51 AM, Rudy Canoza wrote:
> 2. Bullshit.
YOU are little man Ball, let's get folks up to speed on who and what YOU
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> 2. Bullshit.
YOU are little man Ball, let's get folks up to speed on who and what YOU
are!
LITTLE MAN BALL-----
PARK THAT JETTA!!!
PICK THOSE ORANGES!!!
SELL THOSE SOLAR PANELS!!!
https://www.arivify.com/property/search/Lj5tUOUy7
Owner Name Jonathan Ball
Address 5327 Shepard Ave
City Sacramento
State CA
Zip Code 95819
Land Use Resid. Single Family
Land Size 0.168 acres
Appraised Value $420130
Assessed Value $420130
Legal Description Sac:00501110170000
http://reach150.com/solarcity-northern-california/review/62015/jonathan-ball
Jonathan Ball
Field Energy Consultant SolarCity Northern California
Sacramento, CA
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#BeamMeUpScotty
Jan 4, 2018, 1:00:17 PM1/4/18
to
On 01/04/2018 11:44 AM, Siri Cruise wrote:
> In article <lcbs4dt89nrbgda85...@4ax.com>,
> NoBody <NoB...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> Facebook is notorious for banning anything that might be threatening
>> to a lib while allowing outright threats be made against
>> conservatives. Community "standards" are applied one-sidedly.
>
> And still not a common carrier. Start your own facebook, assuming you can find
> any programmers willing to work for you.
>
That's NOT how equality works, the first step is to stop the violation
> In article <lcbs4dt89nrbgda85...@4ax.com>,
> NoBody <NoB...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> Facebook is notorious for banning anything that might be threatening
>> to a lib while allowing outright threats be made against
>> conservatives. Community "standards" are applied one-sidedly.
>
> And still not a common carrier. Start your own facebook, assuming you can find
> any programmers willing to work for you.
>
of every persons RIGHTS like the RIGHT to free speech and make it equal.
If the laws are only being used to squash political opponents then the
site should be closed down totally so that we again have equal
protection of the law. If the Liberals shut it down for Republicans
then the law should shut it down for the Liberals.
--
That's Karma
*Rumination*
140 - Annoy a Liberal... Because *REALITY* is a terrible thing to waste.
NoBody
Jan 5, 2018, 7:16:09 AM1/5/18
to
On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 08:44:50 -0800, Siri Cruise <chine...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>In article <lcbs4dt89nrbgda85...@4ax.com>,
> NoBody <NoB...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> Facebook is notorious for banning anything that might be threatening
>> to a lib while allowing outright threats be made against
>> conservatives. Community "standards" are applied one-sidedly.
>
>And still not a common carrier. Start your own facebook, assuming you can find
>any programmers willing to work for you.
Your evasion is so noted.
wrote:
>In article <lcbs4dt89nrbgda85...@4ax.com>,
> NoBody <NoB...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> Facebook is notorious for banning anything that might be threatening
>> to a lib while allowing outright threats be made against
>> conservatives. Community "standards" are applied one-sidedly.
>
>And still not a common carrier. Start your own facebook, assuming you can find
>any programmers willing to work for you.
Siri Cruise
Jan 5, 2018, 8:23:02 AM1/5/18
to
In article <04ru4dl9btd4r93pn...@4ax.com>,
Your whining demand that the nanny state change your diapers is so noted. What's
that you say about net neutrality? Get the government out of it and let the
market decide for itself?
You don't like what the market decides? Tough shit.
that you say about net neutrality? Get the government out of it and let the
market decide for itself?
You don't like what the market decides? Tough shit.
Reticula
Jan 5, 2018, 11:37:08 AM1/5/18
to
On 1/5/2018 6:19 AM, Siri Cruise wrote:
> You don't like what the market decides? Tough shit.
You deserve to DIE a painful meth whore death!
> You don't like what the market decides? Tough shit.
#BeamMeUpScotty
Jan 5, 2018, 1:24:30 PM1/5/18
to
spin off some freedom of speech on the Internet.
--
That's Karma
*Eternity ends at conception.... Time then becomes a finite resource*
Siri Cruise
Jan 5, 2018, 7:08:38 PM1/5/18
to
In article <ypP3C.131227$qe.3...@fx18.iad>,
#BeamMeUpScotty <I'm-With-...@ideocracy.gov> wrote:
> On 01/05/2018 11:37 AM, Reticula wrote:
> > On 1/5/2018 6:19 AM, Siri Cruise wrote:
> >> You don't like what the market decides? Tough shit.
> >
> >
> > You deserve to DIE a painful meth whore death!
>
> Now that Net neutrality is dead we might have a free market that will
> spin off some freedom of speech on the Internet.
So you have no idea where software comes from.
> On 01/05/2018 11:37 AM, Reticula wrote:
> > On 1/5/2018 6:19 AM, Siri Cruise wrote:
> >> You don't like what the market decides? Tough shit.
> >
> >
> > You deserve to DIE a painful meth whore death!
>
> Now that Net neutrality is dead we might have a free market that will
> spin off some freedom of speech on the Internet.
NoBody
Jan 7, 2018, 10:28:10 AM1/7/18
to
On Fri, 05 Jan 2018 05:19:00 -0800, Siri Cruise <chine...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>In article <04ru4dl9btd4r93pn...@4ax.com>,
> NoBody <NoB...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 08:44:50 -0800, Siri Cruise <chine...@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <lcbs4dt89nrbgda85...@4ax.com>,
>> > NoBody <NoB...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Facebook is notorious for banning anything that might be threatening
>> >> to a lib while allowing outright threats be made against
>> >> conservatives. Community "standards" are applied one-sidedly.
>> >
>> >And still not a common carrier. Start your own facebook, assuming you can
>> >find
>> >any programmers willing to work for you.
>>
>> Your evasion is so noted.
>
>Your whining demand that the nanny state change your diapers is so noted. What's
>that you say about net neutrality? Get the government out of it and let the
>market decide for itself?
>
>You don't like what the market decides? Tough shit.
It appears that evasion is your only ability.
>In article <04ru4dl9btd4r93pn...@4ax.com>,
> NoBody <NoB...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 08:44:50 -0800, Siri Cruise <chine...@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <lcbs4dt89nrbgda85...@4ax.com>,
>> > NoBody <NoB...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Facebook is notorious for banning anything that might be threatening
>> >> to a lib while allowing outright threats be made against
>> >> conservatives. Community "standards" are applied one-sidedly.
>> >
>> >And still not a common carrier. Start your own facebook, assuming you can
>> >find
>> >any programmers willing to work for you.
>>
>> Your evasion is so noted.
>
>Your whining demand that the nanny state change your diapers is so noted. What's
>that you say about net neutrality? Get the government out of it and let the
>market decide for itself?
>
>You don't like what the market decides? Tough shit.
NoBody
Jan 8, 2018, 6:33:43 AM1/8/18
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