Love it or hate it, Facebook is the most dominant social platform in the world with nearly 2 billion users. It will be interesting to see how this latest moderating effort works. I like the user input, but worry about increasing artificiality of what each user sees - so much information is already filtered that what you see is such a narrow perspective of reality.
Already facing flak for its censorship policies, Facebook now wants its users to define what is "objectionable", eventually empowering them to decide how much nudity and violence they are comfortable seeing, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post
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"Where is your line on nudity? On violence? On graphic content? On profanity? What you decide will be your personal settings. We will periodically ask you these questions to increase participation and so you don't need to dig around to find them," he added.
Zuckerberg also noted that for those who do not make a decision, the policies decided by majority of people in their region would be enforced.
Even in that case the individual would have the option of updating personal settings anytime.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
