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Meta had a 17-strike policy for sex trafficking, former safety leader claims (www.theverge.com)

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Meta allegedly gave accounts engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex” 16 chances before suspending them, according to testimony from the company’s former head of safety and well-being, Vaishnavi Jayakumar. The testimony — along with several other claims that Meta ignored problems if they increased engagement — surfaced in an unredacted court filing related to a social media child safety lawsuit filed by school districts across the country.

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[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 23 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

I'm not defending the policy but the title doesn't match the story:

“That means that you could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation, and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended,”

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Wait but that changes everything? Sex work doesn't automatically mean sex trafficking??

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, to me it's muddy waters. While some people look down on it, if an adult posts something that says free Saturday night, hit me up for a price... That's not anywhere near trafficking. But it is very much solicitation.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, but the title says only sex trafficking

[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So, 17 strikes you're out.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Thats why baseball games in the 1800s were much longer.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

You should look into the history of cricket

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

I mean, it IS The Verge. They could be so inept that they just forgot to include anything relating to the title in their story

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

that matches the title completely

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Sex work =/= sex trafficking

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Sometimes. Probably not on Facebook.

There's a pretty good This American Life about it. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/740/there-i-fixed-it

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

Meta allegedly gave accounts engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex” 16 chances before suspending them,

the article is about sex trafficking, the policy would also apply to sex workers, eventually.

not everything about sex trafficking is about sex workers…

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Unless they have to drive to you during rush hour. Then it's sex work with traffic.