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Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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It's tempting to just pile on with "Meta bad" here as most of us believe that for a multitude of good reasons, but how would likely alternatives handle this better? Most of us on Lemmy are strongly in favor of encrypted messaging for example. As the article mentions, that makes monitoring by third parties impossible.
What if we got all the kids to come to the Fediverse instead of InstaTok? Would-be abusers would most certainly follow. Will Fediverse admins moderate for child safety better than corporate social platforms? Will teenagers want to stay on tightly-moderated servers?
I don't think the solutions are as simple as "Meta should stop being shitty and care about the harm it enables".
I really hate this trend of downplaying valid points by saying "X bad", as if we need to lay out the argument against X, meta in this case, once again, or else we're just being idiots arguing blindly. Meta is bad and pointing out that this is just another reason why is fine.
Sure, you just turn features off.
Maybe not, but at least we could sleep at night. Meta, on the other hand, sleeps at night on a big pile of money.
It's not our job to create solutions which they should have implemented years ago.
Those of us who are actively promoting the Fediverse might, however want to start thinking about how we're going to handle the same problems as the Fediverse grows.