That’s also what many other social media would do because it’s easier to ban posting of personal information regardless of where it came from because you can’t trust moderation you outsourced to some third world country to do proper checks.
Example:
No. Reddit is quite open and pro-free speech, but it is not okay to post someone’s personal information or post links to personal information. This includes links to public Facebook pages and screenshots of Facebook pages with the names still legible.
Posting someone’s personal information will get you banned. When posting screenshots, be sure to edit out any personally identifiable information to avoid running afoul of this rule.
Bullshit. They’re just protecting Nazis. A competent programmer could write an algorithm to knock out the low hanging fruit, like public Facebook pages, in about five minutes.
Might take me a couple hours. Someone genuinely good and familiar with the space would have been done in less time than it took to write this comment.
They don’t want to deal with the slightest risk of dealing with legal consequences. The ole corpo risk matrix + risk appetite as assessed by lawyers resulted in this, no IT involved ever probably.
Totally, corporations will always go fasch, not just because they want to¹ but because it’s what they are
But
can’t trust moderation
There is low hanging fruit that can be procedurally verified.
They chose this, obviously, clearly
¹they always want to
Your solution doesn’t fully eliminate risk on it’s own and addressing that costs money - that’s about as far as a rational company has to go. They know going nuclear and banning all personal info means not having to deal with it at all and it’s a niche thing that will affect negligible amount of users. Bean counting is the core of meeting regulatory and legal requirements in case of for-profit organisations.
73ms@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
can always come up with rationalizations but the fact remains there are other platforms that will not “cost optimize” it away.
misk@piefed.social 19 hours ago
Those platforms are irrelevant. Yes, I realise I’m using an irrelevant platform - that was always my intention.