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If you want to know how Facebook came about, Google 'facemash'.
Over the weekend I was notified by Facebook that I was "Restricted".
I couldn't post, I couldn't comment. I was a bad boy. What did I do? According
to the artificial intelligence robot that Facebook probably uses to weed out
bad boys, I used hate speech. I had commented on a story about a woman who had
been virtually raped on a virtual game web site. She hadn't been actually raped.
It was a fantasy site. So my comment was that it was not real and the woman
needed to not go there anymore because it only pointed out that men are pigs. I
assume the robot that patrols Facebook comments, felt that calling men pigs was
hate speech. That's okay with me. My problem is, how the hell are we supposed
to know what words trigger the damn robot? Was it the use of pig in a
declarative sentence? Was it me saying people are too fragile and shouldn't let
fantasy game sites rule them? I'm not sure. Anyway, as of now I am back on the
Facebook. That is, just as long as they don't read this blog post. It would
really be so much easier if they would actually publish a list of the bad words
they don't want us to use and in what order to not use them. Because from what
I can make out, Facebook was on the side of the virtual rapists.
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