Facebook claims that it “maintains a robust reporting infrastructure that leverages our hundreds of millions of users to look for offensive or potentially dangerous content.”
But I’ve discovered that this is rubbish. Its methods for reporting inappropriate content are confusing, flawed or missing.
Read the full post ...reedom of speech and the future of the internet are at stake. An Italian court has found some Google executives guilty after some students filmed themselves bullying a boy with Down’s syndrome [1] and then uploaded the clip to Google Video. The students were later convicted for their actions.
According to Tom Watson MP, the decision to hold Google liable for publishing the video:
“is the biggest threat to internet freedom we have seen in Europe. The only people who will support this decision are Silvio Berlusconi and the governments of China and Iran. It effectively breaks the internet in Italy.”
Well, Tom, you can make that Berlusconi, the Chinese and Iranian governments – and me.
Read the full post ...You may have seen the news that ReadWriteWeb posted a story about facebook’s login. It appeared at the top of google for a search on “facebook login”, leading to, allegedly, 000s of people turning up and trying to log in to facebook.
Here are the best of the 1,500-odd comments, to save you the trouble of ploughing through them. After the first page or so, most of the “I want to log in” comments appear to be jokes – leading to the suspicion that after the first few genuinely confused people, this massive thread is, in fact, between people pretending to be idiots, and people claiming they can’t believe people are such idiots.
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