Hate Speech
Jan. 9th, 2011 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purejuiceFacebook executive Randi Zuckerberg bluntly asked, "Is Sarah Palin to blame?"
According to Zuckerberg that is the #1 question on the social network behemoth following the Tucson shooting.
Like so much with Palin, the roots are on Facebook. On her Facebook page last year when she posted the a map of 20 congressional districts targeted by SarahPac, the headline of the map: "It's time to take a stand."
At the time Giffords reacted to the map in an interview on a cable news program.
"When people do that, they've got to realize there are consequences to that action," Giffords said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-palins-crosshairs-ad-focus-gabrielle-giffords-debate/story?id=12576437
Is this an FB phenom, and should FB be held accountable for, say, hate speech? Is this a PR dodge by Zuckerberg to avoid hate speech allegations?
I'm also interested in Loughton's cyber personna -- one of those quotes I think of often but can never track down (it was in a TLS or LRB review in the 90s) is that schizophrenics naturally think of themselves as the bearer bots of cameras and computers and prostheses and cyborg mechanisms, which complete their personalities as marriage or union with God does for other people. His presence online is clearly his real being, and thus FB and Youtube et al, where he existed, have an obligation to police themselves.
According to Zuckerberg that is the #1 question on the social network behemoth following the Tucson shooting.
Like so much with Palin, the roots are on Facebook. On her Facebook page last year when she posted the a map of 20 congressional districts targeted by SarahPac, the headline of the map: "It's time to take a stand."
At the time Giffords reacted to the map in an interview on a cable news program.
"When people do that, they've got to realize there are consequences to that action," Giffords said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-palins-crosshairs-ad-focus-gabrielle-giffords-debate/story?id=12576437
Is this an FB phenom, and should FB be held accountable for, say, hate speech? Is this a PR dodge by Zuckerberg to avoid hate speech allegations?
I'm also interested in Loughton's cyber personna -- one of those quotes I think of often but can never track down (it was in a TLS or LRB review in the 90s) is that schizophrenics naturally think of themselves as the bearer bots of cameras and computers and prostheses and cyborg mechanisms, which complete their personalities as marriage or union with God does for other people. His presence online is clearly his real being, and thus FB and Youtube et al, where he existed, have an obligation to police themselves.
