To copy what I posted in the same thread on another instance (but conversation seems more relevant here):
So they received a take down request from the Indian government, mistook the users for being in India, followed the law that they’re required to follow in India, and when it was brought to their attention that those users were actually based in Canada they went back and allowed the posts. This doesn’t seem as malicious as people are making it out to be, they should probably work on their geo-blocking, but with 3 billion users in 150+ countries with their own local laws it’s probably safer to be aggressive when it comes to removing content when requested.
Do you really want Frontline facebook moderation staff (or many levels between) having the ability to run the kinds of queries required to validate country of origin or other privacy-invading points of validations required?
I don’t.
And it takes time for those kinds of queries to reach the (very busy) desks of the purposefully constrained few, who can.
Assuming that this is all a decision that came from front line moderation, which I don’t accept but we’ll do so for the sake of this argument, yes, I think moderation staff should probably know whether a given post is actually subject to Indian law before removing it on those grounds.
To copy what I posted in the same thread on another instance (but conversation seems more relevant here):
So they received a take down request from the Indian government, mistook the users for being in India, followed the law that they’re required to follow in India, and when it was brought to their attention that those users were actually based in Canada they went back and allowed the posts. This doesn’t seem as malicious as people are making it out to be, they should probably work on their geo-blocking, but with 3 billion users in 150+ countries with their own local laws it’s probably safer to be aggressive when it comes to removing content when requested.
Really? Data harvesting company Meta didn’t know which country these posts originated from, on their own site? I have my doubts, to say the least.
Do you really want Frontline facebook moderation staff (or many levels between) having the ability to run the kinds of queries required to validate country of origin or other privacy-invading points of validations required?
I don’t.
And it takes time for those kinds of queries to reach the (very busy) desks of the purposefully constrained few, who can.
Assuming that this is all a decision that came from front line moderation, which I don’t accept but we’ll do so for the sake of this argument, yes, I think moderation staff should probably know whether a given post is actually subject to Indian law before removing it on those grounds.