Posted on 06/17/2016 7:39:32 AM PDT by DrJeff
Reynaldo Gonzalez’s daughter, Nohemi, was among the 130 killed when religious extremists attacked Paris last year. Now, he’s suing Twitter, Facebook and Google for facilitating the spread of “extremist propaganda” after alleging the trio “knowingly permitted” ISIS to recruit, raise money and spread its message across each of the respective platforms.
According to court documents:
“For years, [the companies] have knowingly permitted the terrorist group ISIS to use their social networks as a tool for spreading extremist propaganda, raising funds and attracting new recruits.
This material support has been instrumental to the rise of ISIS, and has enabled it to carry out numerous terrorist attacks, including the 13 November 2015 attacks in Paris, where more than 125 were killed, including Nohemi Gonzalez.”
Gonzalez goes on to allege that without Twitter, Facebook and Google-owned YouTube, religious extremists would not have the infrastructure to get their message to the masses.
Lawsuits like this are especially troubling, as each company goes to great lengths to police its ranks and remove offending content.
Having a team of moderators capable of viewing hundreds of millions of collective pieces of new content a day is a task that even large companies can, and do, struggle with. It’s a statistical impossibility to maintain that any company of this size can review — or even find — all instances of offensive content.
For now, we’re stuck with random manual review, user flagging offensive content and artificial intelligence that scans — and often finds — content that requires human moderation.
As AI continues to improve, you’ll see fewer instances of extremism and other offensive content. For now, think of it as the price of admission to an open Web.
YEAH!!!!
Facebook in particular seems to have little trouble leaving leftist-favored pages up in the face of thousands of complaints, while finding any excuse to immediately tear down conservative/right-leaning pages.
Good! It’s about time! Meanwhile they ban Pamela Geller and many many groups. It’s sickening.
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...Facebook in particular seems to have little trouble leaving leftist-favored pages up...
Leftist pages are nothing compared to actual video and stills of savage Muslim atrocities that they allow to remain posted on the site, citing that they fall within guidelnes. Maybe their guidelines, but not the guidelines of a civilized society.
Google helped lead the coup against Mubarak in Egypt.
Ban Facebook!!
Ban Google!!
Ban Twitter!!
Like the Ladder manufacturer getting sued because they didn’t have warming stickers saying do not climb if Drunk
Ban, ban, ban!!!
“Like the Ladder manufacturer getting sued because they didn’t have warming stickers saying do not climb if Drunk”
Or the ladder manufacturer getting sued because somebody pushed your grandma from the top of the roof. “Why wasn’t the ladder there to prevent the fall?”
This will not kill Google, Facebook or Twitter. It will basically guarantee them a monopoly.
This lawsuit opens the subject up for serious discussion.
“As AI continues to improve, you’ll see fewer instances of extremism and other offensive content. For now, think of it as the price of admission to an open Web.”
they can also program the sites to allow who they want. Or warn of authorities use to stop the terrorists. A simple code could protect the terrorists code from being logged at all.
AI or not...
Why sue businesses? Businesses have no responsibility to keep you safe. It is your own responsibility and one of FEW responsibilities of the responsible government. If you cannot keep yourself self and your government, which you elected, cannot keep you safe, then perhaps you DESERVE it.
I disagree, that conclusion is not foregone. To win a lawsuit like this, you’d probably have to show that the companies acted in bad faith, and didn’t really try to stop the terrorists from using their platform to aid in their criminal activities.
If the company can show they acted in good faith, and simply didn’t have the necessary resources to catch everything, they should win the suit. The only sites that really need to be worried are ones where terrorist-related stuff is being reported, but nothing is ever done about it.
Agreed, in the crazy world liberals live in.
However, in case it matters in the real world, FR does not promote terrorism or other criminal acts. There is a difference between offensive matter and the promotion of criminal acts.
I think allowing people to view their atrocity will let people see how evil they really are.
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