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by bosie 2748 days ago
> 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?

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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...
>> Facebook asked users to upload nude photos

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

> "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.

> 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.