J. Clarence
Jul 28, 2017 · 2 min read

For starters, if Zuckerberg decides to sue you for slander or defamation of character it would not prove your underlying argument, that he fundamentally hates black people. You have made a claim that he hates black people, and after reading your piece, it is not clear exactly how you trace it all back to him specifically. At best your piece puts forward the idea that Facebook might have a bias in terms of how quickly, or at all, it flags and removes material that it considers a violation of their terms of service.

Additionally, the one experiment you provided between “Police Lives Matter” and “Niggers Deserve To Die” isn’t a statistically reliable experiment. However, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to actually organize a statistical experiment (if one hasn’t been run already) to see if there genuinely is an unexplained and unaccounted for bias, it also wouldn’t even be that to difficult to administer. If you all did, it would actually provide you with some meaningful data to take back to Facebook regarding how it administers its censorship, rather than these anecdotes.

To the best of my knowledge Facebook does not outline the methodology it uses to censor content or ban users; however, taking what you have stated at face value, it seems like it is a combination of the number of times something is reported and whether or not there are any flagged pejoratives are at least critical factors. I could see where this could be a problem, there are much fewer woke people, and trolls could just as easily target specific posts and report it.

That being said, as I mentioned in my other comment, statements like “Police Lives Matter” are not inherently anti-black lives, that’s a presumption that I think goes one step too far, and a reasonable person, I think, can look at it see that while it might trigger some people, it is not something that people cannot have legitimate differing opinions with regards to, and does not call violence against a particular group, like “Niggers Deserve To Die” does.

J. Clarence

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