Daily Prompt: Freedom of Facebook

by michelle w. on May 29, 2013

Facebook has recently come under attack for failing to enforce its own guidelines on hate speech and violent imagery.

Face Book

Is it a website’s job to moderate the content its users post, or should users have complete freedom?

That is an intriguing question. I have tried to post a few videos from You Tube that are on our own site and Face Book has come back and told me no. I thought that there was monitoring of the website. Did the people who used to monitor have to find a new job? There is a filter that is available for the site whereas you can block out certain items such as nudity and pornography or violence. Has this filter been removed?

Is there a happy medium?

There is usually a happy medium to all situations. It may not be the expected outcome, yet a compromise on all sides does help the situation.

If so, how would you structure it?

Hiring more employees who have a specific job might be a great place to start. I understand cross training as it helps a company when it loses employees and someone else is pretrained in that field. The employee can slide into the alternate position with ease and not feel the pressure of a new job. The company continues to run efficiently. Perhaps Face Book should look at how the employees are structured and look at a new scheme in the work place. Losing 15 to 20 employees at the same time does hurt a company. That is when restructure is necessary.

It might mean that the CEO and the Board take a few less vacations abroad. They might want to listen to their employees and see where the internal problems lie. That seems like a smart place to start.

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