Funny Pictures Quotes Pics Jokes Memes Images Photos Cats Gift Animals: Jokes For Facebook

Friday 2 August 2013

Jokes For Facebook

Jokes For Facebook Definition

Source(google.com.pk)
An eensy internet furor spiked yesterday when Women, Action & The Media slammed Facebook for censoring certain hate speech while overlooking pretty awful jokes about rape. Facebook replied with a mea culpa and a mention of overhauling its content guidelines. But it hasn't fixed anything yet.

While there is no universally accepted definition of hate speech, as a platform we define the term to mean direct and serious attacks on any protected category of people based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability or disease. We work hard to remove hate speech quickly, however there are instances of offensive content, including distasteful humor, that are not hate speech according to our definition. In these cases, we work to apply fair, thoughtful, and scalable policies.
Social network press releases are the opiate of the masses. Sure, there can be a lot of gray area when it comes to horrendous people on the internet. But what are these "policies"? We don't have much of a clue beyond the fact that they're "scalable." Not the most reassuring statement if you're a woman being taunted with rape threats, and certainly not a promise that Facebook is going to start erasing images like these. All the company is providing is an allusion to reforms of some kind, having to do with gender-taunting, at some point in the future. But that's not a "ban" against this kind of stuff.

So what is Facebook actually doing with regards to "gender-based hate"? Talking about talking about action, tentatively: