[bad_user]

Really? How has "consumer software gone too far in the other direction"?

Does it ... kill people? Does it enforce bad policies like the healthcare industry did for the past couple of decades, causing an epidemic of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, which are the top causes of death?

Yeah, regulation there definitely helped /s

[bosie]

> Does it ... kill people?

Facebook asked users to upload nude photos. what if those get leaked and users commit suicide because of it? Would you (partially) blame facebook for their death?

> Does it enforce bad policies like the healthcare industry did for the past couple of decades, causing an epidemic of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, which are the top causes of death?

Genuine question but what policies are the reasons for the epidemic of the three death causes you just mentioned?

[tomp]

They asked you to upload nude photos to help them identify revenge porn... so presumably this only makes sense for people whose nude photos are already online. Can’t really blame Facebook for that...

[TallGuyShort]

>> Facebook asked users to upload nude photos

I missed that one. By now even lay people should know that's a recipe for disaster.

[bad_user]

> "Would you (partially) blame facebook for their death?"

No, because doing nude pictures of yourself and then distributing them, no matter where, is just stupid. Parents should educate their kids to know better, or seek counseling if that mistake was made.

You're also talking of a hypothetical situation. When planes crash, people die, guaranteed. And yearly there are more than 100 plane crashes.

> "Genuine question but what policies are the reasons for the epidemic of the three death causes you just mentioned?"

The recommendation for a diet high in sugar, high in wheat and other grains, high in vegetable oils / polyunsaturated fats (e.g. Omega-6), low in saturated fat, low in dietary cholesterol, low in salt.

Children were fed in schools, diets were set in hospitals, foods where preferred in supermarkets according to these guidelines. That's not a debate I want to get into though.

[mynameisvlad]

> You're also talking of a hypothetical situation

Considering this article is about Facebook leaking 6+million photos to third parties, including photos that were uploaded but never shared, it's well within the realm of possibility that at least one of those millions of photos was a nude. In fact, I'd bet there were quite a few nudes in the leaked set. It only takes one more step to turn that hypothetical of yours into a reality.

[sifoobar]

There have been several cases of bullying people to commit suicide where it's not obvious how the same thing could have been accomplished without without the leverage Facebook provides.

I'm grateful I didn't have to live through this as a teenager, it's a shark pool.

So how long do we keep pretending that allowing this to go on is a viable way forward?

[794CD01]

Others sufficiently cover the actual killing. I would only add that wasting peoples' time and/or money at scale is just as bad. Waste 30 seconds for each of 100 million people and that's an above average human lifetime.

BTW, how do you think anti-vaccination, healthy at any size, and minor attracted people ideas became popular? I specify those only because they are particularly heinous, but if you want official policy, just look at literally any election, though the 2016 US presidential election and the brexit referendum are the standouts in terms of memes.

[bad_user]

> "Others sufficiently cover the actual killing"

I haven't seen any response yet. Does Facebook kill people, yes or no, it's a simple answer.

> "wasting peoples' time and/or money at scale is just as bad"

What?

> "how do you think anti-vaccination, healthy at any size, and minor attracted people ideas became popular?"

In that regard all Facebook does is giving people the tools to exercise their freedom of speech, possibly with an algorithm for that feed whose effects they couldn't predict, because it was built to maximize profits, not sanity ... and that will never be illegal ;-)

I understand some of the arguments that Facebook encouraged fake news, however speaking as somebody that was born in communism, I can tell you that fake news isn't new, it happened before WW I, it happened before WW II, it happened at the east of the Iron Curtain (at least) during the Cold War, and it happened just as well afterwards.

In my country distributing news via Facebook isn't even that popular, yet fake news is flourishing ... on TV. People are always looking for a scapegoat, for an easy answer, for an easy fix. It's only natural, but it doesn't make it right.

No, I don't think Facebook is to blame for fake news, even if it might have contributed. Facebook can't be responsible for the poor education that people are given.