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Tech Companies Struggle With How to Curtail Offensive Speech
No more hands off
Internet firms are moving away from the long-held position that they didn’t want to monitor expression on their sites too closely, Irina Raicu, director of the Internet Ethics Program at Santa Clara University, said.
“The companies are stuck in the middle and no longer trying to avoid responsibility in a way that I think they were even a few years ago when they were saying we are just neutral platforms”, Raicu said. “They are increasingly taking a more open role in determining what content moderation looks like”.
It’s not just in the U.S. where the internet companies are having to make hard decisions about speech. The firms are also grappling with extreme speech in other languages.
Comments on Facebook have been linked to violence in places like Myanmar and India. A recent article by the Reuters news agency reports that negative messages about MyanMar’s Rohingya minority group were throughout its site.
Some call on social media companies to do more to target and take down hate messages before they lead to violence.
“If Facebook is bent on removing abusive words and nudity, they should be focused on removing these words as well”, said Abhinay Korukonda, a student from Mumbai, India, who is studying at the University of California, Berkeley. “This comes under special kinds of abusive terms. They should take an action. They should definitely remove these”.
(Disponível em: <https://www.voanews.com/a/tech-companies-struggle-with-curtailing-offensive-speech/4534022.html>. Acesso em: 19 ago. 2018.)
Com relação ao texto, identifique como verdadeiras (V) ou falsas (F) as seguintes afirmativas:
( ) Empresas da Internet estão mudando de posição quanto à liberdade de expressão em seus sítios.
( ) O Facebook se opõe a bloquear usuários que apresentam comportamentos abusivos na rede.
( ) O problema central tratado no texto não se restringe apenas ao que acontece nos Estados Unidos.
( ) As empresas de tecnologia estão contratando moderadores de conteúdo para monitorarem seus aplicativos.
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