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The Happy Hippy
Mar 19, 2019, 7:59:46 AM3/19/19
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47620519
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The original live video of last week's Christchurch attacks was viewed 4,000
times before it was removed, Facebook has said.
Fewer than 200 people had watched it live and the first user report of the
video had come 12 minutes after it had ended, Facebook said.
But by then a copy had been placed on alt-right file-sharing site 8chan.
Once alerted to the video, Facebook removed the original and hashed it -
essentially made a digital fingerprint - meaning that material that was
visibly similar to the original could be automatically detected and removed.
And within 24 hours, it had blocked 1.2 million copies at the point of
upload and deleted another 300,000.
However, copies that had been edited or recorded from a screen had proved
harder to spot.
Facebook seems to have acted pretty swiftly in the circumstances and it is
striking that it was an 8chan user who made the video go viral.
</quotes>
It is more than a little unfair to go after Facebook when they were up
against a determined effort by 8chan members to ensure the video made its
way onto their platform, had 8chan members facilitating that, aiding the
sidestepping of every effort Facebook made to prevent its dissemination.
As much as I dislike Facebook; they are also victims in all this. It would
not be natural justice to allow fascists and those on the alt-right wanting
to take Facebook down to achieve their goal.
The real evil isn't Facebook; it is 8chan. It is 8chan who wanted this video
disseminated, 8chan who wanted to promote and glorify this act of terrorism.
Facebook did not.
<quotes>
The original live video of last week's Christchurch attacks was viewed 4,000
times before it was removed, Facebook has said.
Fewer than 200 people had watched it live and the first user report of the
video had come 12 minutes after it had ended, Facebook said.
But by then a copy had been placed on alt-right file-sharing site 8chan.
Once alerted to the video, Facebook removed the original and hashed it -
essentially made a digital fingerprint - meaning that material that was
visibly similar to the original could be automatically detected and removed.
And within 24 hours, it had blocked 1.2 million copies at the point of
upload and deleted another 300,000.
However, copies that had been edited or recorded from a screen had proved
harder to spot.
Facebook seems to have acted pretty swiftly in the circumstances and it is
striking that it was an 8chan user who made the video go viral.
</quotes>
It is more than a little unfair to go after Facebook when they were up
against a determined effort by 8chan members to ensure the video made its
way onto their platform, had 8chan members facilitating that, aiding the
sidestepping of every effort Facebook made to prevent its dissemination.
As much as I dislike Facebook; they are also victims in all this. It would
not be natural justice to allow fascists and those on the alt-right wanting
to take Facebook down to achieve their goal.
The real evil isn't Facebook; it is 8chan. It is 8chan who wanted this video
disseminated, 8chan who wanted to promote and glorify this act of terrorism.
Facebook did not.
Jesse
Mar 19, 2019, 3:35:43 PM3/19/19
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Not to worry, we know that everything you disagree with you want banned
and censored, but 8chan isn't above the law, it operates within the
confines of US law just like Shitbook.
Hard to see what you are complaining about, literally just the other day
you were here imploring everyone to watch the clip, now you have turned
on a dime and are vilifying the very few sites that have the balls to
allegedly host it. [I haven't seen it hosted there, only a link to a
torrent which I posted the other day]
Just think, in some countries I'd be in jail and subject to 14 years in
prison for doing that, and that is really the type of society you want
to live in ?
Yes it is - Just so long that its you and your kind who get to decide
whats bad and who gets thrown in jail.If Trump introduced a law like
that you'd be screaming bloody murder and warning of civil war, but if
MErkel or Junckers did it you'd be right on board - What a fucking
hippycrite !
I assume you watched it, having described parts of it, so which shithole
Nazi website did you watch it on ?
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