Facebook codifies its censorship regime

From WSWS:

Facebook, the world’s largest social media company, spelled out for the first time the criteria it uses to censor speech on its platform, purely at its own discretion, and with no legal oversight or recourse. Its “community guidelines” are so sweeping and broad that effectively any statement expressing any critical political view can be constrained as violent, defamatory, “extremist,” “bullying” or—in the most sweeping catchall—“fake news,” and flagged for removal or undetectable censorship. These “community guidelines” are used by the 20,000 in Facebook’s “security” and “moderation” departments—constituting the absolute majority of the company’s employees—to shape political discourse and block content the massive and unaccountable technology monopoly deems objectionable. Read the full report on the WSWS   SEP and IYSSE hold meeting on war, the class struggle and the fight against Internet censorship    Several workers addressed the conference and expressed the growing opposition among broad layers of the working class to capitalism and the pro-corporate trade unions. See also: Workers, students speak out against war, censorship and inequality at Detroit meeting The CIA Democrats vs. Julian Assange Australian meetings to call for Julian Assange’s freedom Indian Trotskyists hold public meeting in Chennai against Internet censorship Share Tweet Forward World Socialist Web Site | wsws.org Articles: Copyright © 2017 wsws.org, All rights reserved.