The Intertoobz

Like everything else in the world, some people are intent on turning the whole thing into one enormous cesspool - which, unfortunately, means there's money to be made on helping the bad actors float their shit.

WaPo:

Zuckerberg acknowledges Facebook erred by not removing a post that urged armed action in Kenosha

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a video post Friday that the company erred by not taking down an event listing for a militia group that encouraged armed civilians to defend the streets of Kenosha, Wis., from civil unrest before the fatal shooting of two people this week.

Facebook removed the page for the “Kenosha Guard” and an event listing for “Armed Citizens to Protect Our Lives and Property” after the shootings Tuesday night in which Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, allegedly killed two men and seriously wounded a third.

Looking somber in a blue T-shirt and speaking in a slow, halting manner, Zuckerberg said the page and event listing violated Facebook’s policies and should have been removed after the company received numerous complaints about their violent nature. He called the error “largely an operational mistake.”

“The contractors, the reviewers who the initial complaints were funneled to, didn’t, basically, didn’t pick this up,” Zuckerberg said. “And on second review, doing it more sensitively, the team that’s responsible for dangerous organizations recognized that this violated the policies and we took it down.”

Zuckerberg didn’t say if the contractors had been disciplined for not removing the page and event listing or if Facebook would undertake additional training or consider changes to policies as a result of the event. He did not make an apology to the victims of the violence or their families in the video post.

Zuckerberg said there was no evidence that Rittenhouse followed the Kenosha Guard page or that he had been invited to the event page calling for an armed response to protests in the city.

There's his main defense - basically, "We just didn't know." And yes, I get it, with more than a billion user accounts, how do you police it all?

That's one of the big problems now though. Marketplace Consolidation has given rise to the SuperMegaGiant Company, and the Radical Libertarian business model makes for an atmosphere that encourages corporations to be a little lazy in holding up their end of the social contract.

But here's the thing: Corporations are considered people (according to SCOTUS). They have to be held to account when they fail in their obligations to a civil society. 

If they can't or won't take real steps to put effective self-governing mechanisms in place for themselves, then they deserve the same fate as any other "person" under the law.

It's not unreasonable to expect Facebook to be investigated for possible indictment for Criminal Negligence, Reckless Endangerment and Accessory To Homicide.

At the very least, the families of Rittenhouse's victims are entitled to recompense for Wrongful Death and Malicious Wounding, etc.

"...with liberty and justice (ie: accountability) for all."