Im pretty sure Meta also has different policies for different countries but they don’t make it official to avoid backlash from the west. You can make racist, sexist, homophobic comments and even direct calls to violence against athiests and religious minorities if you live in poor religious countries and their moderation team wont do anything. They only take actions when a comment/post or a profile is mass reported which is often impossible to do because being a minority means you’re outnumbered.
Yeah you’re correct with what’s going on, a lot of comments on here are missing the mark. Facebook and their subsidiaries operate in many countries where it’s literally illegal to be LGBT, and women’s rights are not the greatest. So they definitely have a “flexible” moderation policy so that they can operate globally in those countries. Most people in the US and Europe won’t even notice because they’re never going to go on Ugandan or Saudi Arabian facebook communities, for instance. And in the reverse, most users from Syria or Iraq for instance aren’t going to see the European anti immigration Facebook communities. And in the rare cases there is crossover, mass reported comments get removed as you said.
This is not a defense of this practice by the way, just an explanation.
Im pretty sure Meta also has different policies for different countries but they don’t make it official to avoid backlash from the west. You can make racist, sexist, homophobic comments and even direct calls to violence against athiests and religious minorities if you live in poor religious countries and their moderation team wont do anything. They only take actions when a comment/post or a profile is mass reported which is often impossible to do because being a minority means you’re outnumbered.
There’s also this https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everything-we-know-about-facebooks-secret-mood-manipulation-experiment/373648/ https://mashable.com/article/facebook-employees-react-teen-spying-app-blind
Yeah you’re correct with what’s going on, a lot of comments on here are missing the mark. Facebook and their subsidiaries operate in many countries where it’s literally illegal to be LGBT, and women’s rights are not the greatest. So they definitely have a “flexible” moderation policy so that they can operate globally in those countries. Most people in the US and Europe won’t even notice because they’re never going to go on Ugandan or Saudi Arabian facebook communities, for instance. And in the reverse, most users from Syria or Iraq for instance aren’t going to see the European anti immigration Facebook communities. And in the rare cases there is crossover, mass reported comments get removed as you said.
This is not a defense of this practice by the way, just an explanation.
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