Thursday 7 March 2024

A quick note to Pastor Philip - on why Facebook's content moderation tyranny sucks

Dear critical-reader, today, I am sharing my response to a revealatory tagged Facebook post sent to my Facebook page earlier today, about the dreadful hidden-pornographic-plague on Facebook that Meta has failed miserably to prevent.

To say that that horrific Meta negligence is shameful and outrageous in the extreme, dear critical-reader, is an understatement. Please read on:

"Thank you so much for sharing this post, Pastor. You are absolutely right, I experience it on this page of mine too, but ignore them and make sure I never click on them. It's so disheartening when you don't like stuff like that.

My other Facebook Lite pages, Akyem Juaso Nature Resource Reserve page, and The Big Issue Ghana Facebook page have been hijacked for that purpose by persons unknown. I no longer even look at them for that reason. Such is life, lol.

The question to ponder over is: When will Meta, Facebook's parent company, understand that that should never happen - and also make its review process (for the non-offensive posts that it rather delights in frequently arbitrarily removing for the most inane reasons, instead of focusing on the dreadful hidden-pornographic-plague), much, much more user friendly, and, above all, make it possible for one to speak to a sensible AI-chatbot? Haaba.

Speaking of which, that's why I personally prefer Elon Musk's free speech absolutist approach to content moderation - at least you know that your posts won't be censored and content moderation tyranny won't annoy you on X/Twitter, lol.

Facebook sucks in that sense. I am on it basically to just spread my writing, and help spread the work of deserving vulnerable base-of-the-pyramid-demographics, and deserving individuals who appreciate that gesture.

I really loathe Facebook's tyrannical content moderation ways, no end, lol.

Thanks once again for sharing this post, Pastor Philip. I trust that all is well with you? Peace and blessings to you and to your better half. Message me on WhatsApp whenever convenient. A beautiful Essipong property is up for sale. Cool."

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