{"id":14187,"date":"2013-10-22T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14187"},"modified":"2013-10-22T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T08:58:00","slug":"the-world-needs-to-get-a-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14187","title":{"rendered":"The World Needs To Get A Grip"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a very old post! It’s attracted a few hits in May 2021. It was relevant at the time I wrote it eight years ago!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I remember a story from my childhood about The Emperor\u2019s New Clothes. It was a Hans Christian Anderson story about two weavers who are commissioned to produce a new suit of clothes for the Emperor, telling him it is so grand that those of lesser status won\u2019t be able to see it. The Emperor displays his new suit until a child in the crowd yells out that he is naked. Only then do all the sycophants in the crowd realise they have been duped.<\/p>\n

Facebook is currently doing its best<\/a> to behave like the two deceitful and irresponsible weavers in that story.<\/p>\n

It has allowed beheading videos back on its site \u2013 yes, you are reading that right: videos of people having their heads cut off by savage, sub-humans who are lower than the lowest pig in the dirtiest pigsty. Facebook\u2019s pathetic defence is that \u201cusers should be free to watch and condemn such videos.\u201d However, they are \u201cconsidering added warnings\u201d. Isn\u2019t that good of them?<\/p>\n

Facebook is US-based. Barack Obama needs to realise what is going on here, and tear up a few of the more stupid pages in the American Constitution once and for all. Gun ownership is one, and the American interpretation of \u201cfree speech\u201d is another. A bunch of zealots and religious nuts showing the murder of innocent people in graphic detail is not, in any shape or form, \u201cfree speech\u201d. The only people who argue that it is are usually engaged in highly dubious activities themselves, which they are seeking to protect. Facebook, for its part, will gain many more visitors by allowing bloody mutilation to be shown, and especially by allowing it to be shown to children.<\/p>\n

Lunatics from religious groups like those who would post such images should be hunted down and shot. Not given advertising space by Facebook.<\/p>\n

When will<\/strong> people realise that they\u2019ve been told by Facebook that they\u2019ve effectively been given a new suit of clothes than are invisible to lesser minds? There’s no need to try and be clever about it (look at some of the Beeb site’s users’ comments – why do<\/strong> people who are stupid try to pretend they are not in public?) Facebook is no better than the two weavers in the Hans Christian Anderson story. And that’s all there is to it.<\/p>\n

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Facebook ought to be renamed \u201cFacesbook\u201d \u2013 because it appears to wear any number of them as it sees fit. My guess is that two is the preferred number.<\/p>\n

Having allowed a video of a beheading to be shown with the pathetic excuse that people need to be allowed to make up their own minds, it has now taken the video down<\/a>. According to this new article, Facebook changed its policy on showing graphic violence back in July, but:<\/p>\n

\u2026did not think the public would be interested to know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s funny, isn\u2019t it, how Facebook can be so dead set against censorship when it means losing visitors, but prepared to censor pretty significant policy decisions with weak excuses like this. Precisely what chimpanzee employees decided that the public \u201cwouldn\u2019t be interested\u201d isn\u2019t made clear \u2013 but I think the world and his dog will see straight through it and realise that the real reason was that Facebook knew damned well there would be a public outcry and that it would be better to conceal the decision.<\/p>\n

Apparently, they have been tripping over each other to change the policy without exactly reversing it. And this time they\u2019ve put it in a press release \u2013 which they should have done the first time. Even so, you can see the utter bollocks that comes from the mouths of companies like Facebook these days:<\/p>\n

First, when we review content that is reported to us, we will take a more holistic look at the context surrounding a violent image or video, and will remove content that celebrates violence.<\/p>\n

Second, we will consider whether the person posting the content is sharing it responsibly, such as accompanying the video or image with a warning and sharing it with an age-appropriate audience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For anyone who doesn\u2019t know, a \u201cholistic look\u201d simply means that they will have a meeting and come to a consensus opinion about any given complaint. And since the ones involved in arriving at consensus in those meetings will be the same idiots who are trying to defend the obvious moral problem with showing online murders in the first place, I wouldn\u2019t hold your breaths. All those in the meetings will be New Age freaks who typify the staff at Facebook. Now doubt when consensus is reached they\u2019ll all have a group hug, then go and talk to the trees and flowers.<\/p>\n

What has the world come to when jackasses like Facebook can show videos of people being murdered \u2013 and defend it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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