Facebook's misogyny problem

[lapislzi]

I admit I use FB quite a lot to keep up with friends and family, and also to post political comment. I chose to ignore the fact that it's used for far more nefarious purposes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/12-year-old-slut-meme-and_b_1911056.html

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What the interpreters of terms at Facebook have yet to realize is that these pages are not just "offensive" to some people. Of course they are offensive to some people and that is just fine. But, they are genuinely "threatening," "hateful," and appear to "incite violence." They represent Facebook's choices about what the company thinks is okay culturally. This isn't hard to understand. Facebook doesn't have a word problem. Or a terms problem. Or a censorship problem. It has a sexism problem. It has a puerile male norm problem, apparently well-informed by lad-mags. It has a problem with defining words like "violent" and "hate crimes" and construing how words like "punch" "die, bitch, die" "slap" "bitch" "slut" and more might not be considered "threatening" and "inciting."

Facebook censors content all the time. It makes a conscious choice NOT to censor misogynistic content.

Discuss. And, the first person who 1) tells me to make them a sandwich or 2) tells me I can't take a joke goes on "ignore." And the second, and the thirds. And so forth.