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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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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 54 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

meanwhile YouTube had a 3 strike policy for copyright claims that might not even be true

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 28 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, but corporate profit margins are much more important than people

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Ha ha ha ha........ha..........

cries

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 minutes ago

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you. Fool me three times, shame on you. Fool me four times...

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 28 points 2 hours ago

Jesus fuck, even 3-strikes would be absurd for this...

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 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 19 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour 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 1 points 14 minutes ago

Yeah, but the title says only sex trafficking

[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

So, 17 strikes you're out.

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

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

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 3 points 59 minutes ago

You should look into the history of cricket

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour 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 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

that matches the title completely

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 15 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Sex work =/= sex trafficking

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes 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 1 hour 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 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

Meanwhile, one harmless meme and you're suspended. I don't get why people use Meta anymore. The site went to shit 20 years ago, and nobody seems to want to jump to another platform. For reasons unknown - there was no issue leaving MySpace for Facebook, so just fucking do it again.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

/community

What the fuck