I'm sure all of the so called "free speech" defenders will be outraged by this revelation, right? 
I think they’ll go after Telegram next. I know a lot of people use it to see uncensored news on Palestine and the Ukraine, which is a big no-no in the US. There’ve been a suspiciously high number of news articles linking it to CSAM even though Facebook is a much, much, much bigger offender.
Facebook has a CSAM problem?
Yep. Very big, and they do a dog shit job of addressing the problem. Their underpaid content moderators pour over the worst images you can possibly imagine until their mental health is completely shot. The worst part is that this method barely makes a dint in the amount of CSAM distribution.
https://www.ft.com/content/afeb56f2-9ba5-4103-890d-91291aea4caa
Their underpaid content moderators pour over the worst images you can possibly imagine until their mental health is completely shot.
barely makes a dint
And there’s no one for them to talk to because of how uniquely horrific these videos and images are. Therapists are only affordable to the rich. Can’t talk to family and friends without potentially traumatizing them. Even the people who interview these mods can’t print the details of their experiences because readers would complain.
I heard that sometimes it'll keep showing the same traumatic video to one person over and over and over because the bot uploader has very slightly edited it thousands of times, and Facebook forces the reviewer to watch the whole thing every time even though they already know it's in violation as soon as it starts
That’s so uniquely cruel in such a calculating way. It’s like they’re intentionally trying to traumatize their workers in a fucked up experiment. I don’t trust the in-house therapists Meta offers…
And Instagram. Presumably others.
Oh go figure the "twisted revelation" is exactly the reason every non lib said it was 2 seconds after hearing the proposal.
It's pretty funny how libs will invariably do mental gymnastics to pretend that the system doesn't work the way it's very obvious working because admitting that would be admitting that liberal democracy is fundamentally broken.
There is a confluence of reasons really, in addition to state department fear of losing control of the narrative there are also a lot of US tech billionaires who got straight outcompeted in the "free market" and would love for the state to step in and force a sale to them.
Link the originsl article instead of the yahoo syndication: https://newrepublic.com/post/181327/mitt-romney-congress-ban-tiktok-israel-gaza
How is this a revelation when they've been complaining openly that the tick tock is turning kids into Hamas for months now?
"My kid became a Hamas because they watched an Israeli bombing run turn 325 Palestinians into red mist please do something Mr State Department"
This could actually help prevent a ban, because TikTok is a large corporation with high-paid lawyers, the only kind of entity that can fairly reliably benefit from the protection of U.S. law.
indeed
First they came for Tik Tok, and I did not speak out, cause I was not a Tik Tok user…
ill say it again, other western platforms suppressed palesatinian content while tiktok did not. in fact, during the congressional hearings we learned that tiktok, in order to satisfy western perception, ended up promoting israeli content because it wasnt getting views - it was so unpopular
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