diff --git a/HarmfulCommunications201908.org b/HarmfulCommunications201908.org index b2b1df9..57d8e4e 100644 --- a/HarmfulCommunications201908.org +++ b/HarmfulCommunications201908.org @@ -672,6 +672,38 @@ on what the service providers do about it. Many argue that they are not doing anything, or at least not enough. + However, this is an unfortunate mischaracterisation of the + situation. For example, facebook employs -- either directly or + through out-sourcing contracts -- many 10s of thousands + "moderators", whose job is to make a decision to remove offensive + material or not, to suppress someone's freedom of expression or + not, based on a set of if-then-else questions. + - It's illegal in Germany to say anything that can be construed as + glorifying the Holacaust. In the UK it isn't. Facebook can + suppress such information from users it believes are in Germany, + but to do so for those in the UK would be an illegal denial of + free expression, regardless of how objectionable the material + is. What is facebook to do with users in Germany who route their + internet connections through the UK? Facebook has no knowledge of + this unusual routing, and to learn about it could be a violation + of the user's right to privacy. Should facebook be criminally + liable for a German user seeing statements that are illegal in + Germany? + - Consider the genocide of Armenian people in Turkey in 1915. It is + illegal to claim it happened in Turkey. However, it's illegal in + France to claim it didn't happen. In most other countries, + neither claim is illegal. What can a service like facebook do + when faced with 3 options, 2 of which are mutually exclusive? + Literally, should they be criminally liable both if they do /and/ + if they don't? + + Modertors have no more than a minute to determine whether a + statement complies with the law of not, and this includes figuring + out whether the posting meets the definitions of abusive or + harmful, and whether it is indeed intended to meet that + definition. For example, imagine an abusive tweet, and then the + target of the abuse quoting it + ** CONSTODO Content moderation ** CONSTODO Investigation support * CONSTODO Answers to consultation questions