I was thinking the same thing. Which perhaps leads to some interesting
possibilities:
At its simplest, it could be simply the act of making it mandatory to have
'report abuse' links and a requirement to make them more prominent, and to
change the wording. Another possibility is that the functionality is
different.
Could it lead to a requirement for mandatory blocking of the content until
a moderator looks at it? For me, this scenario would raise the question of
how to balance the facility provided against ways it can be abused to
block content in unwarranted situations (perhaps a form of bullying
itself?)
Will there be requirements for fast response? If this scenario proved
correct, it could be an indirect way to mandate services having larger
numbers of staff actively patrolling; or responding in a call-centre like
fashion to alerts.
Matt
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:53:21 -0000, Mo McRoberts <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 13:35, Lee Ball <[email protected]> wrote:
Seems like a good idea for me:
"Facebook and other social networking websites are to install "panic
buttons" so children can alert the sites' operators if obscene or
inappropriate material is posted."
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6946162.ece
There is a chance this could be abused though.
There is, certainly.
That said, I’m not sure how this is especially different from the
“Report Abuse” links attached to pretty much everything on every
social networking site in existence.
Smells like a PR campaign.
M.
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