Facebook refuses to embed ‘report abuse’ button
By ANIThursday, November 19, 2009
LONDON - Reports indicate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have refused to embed a “report button” that would allow users to report abuse.
According to a report in New Scientist, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) has devised the free “abuse button” that would link children and teenagers to advice and put them in contact with counsellors and law enforcement officers.
Jim Gamble, head of the CEOP, said that his team has long tried to persuade popular sites to adopt the tool.
He dismissed the technical difficulties raised by some sites including Facebook and MySpace as “red herrings”.
5000 investigations have been initiated because of information received from those using the button, leading to 800 arrests in the past three years, according to the CEOP.
Facebook hit back at the criticism, by saying that it had previously tested similar systems.
It said that such systems had been shown to be ineffective and actually reduced the reporting of abuse, and that as an international site, it preferred to have its own global system.
Facebook attracted widespread criticism and was forced into a U-turn earlier this year when it quietly changed its terms and conditions to allow it to sell or share users’ data once they had closed their accounts. (ANI)
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May 16, 2010: 6:21 pm
My face book profile has been disabled because, they say, I put p0rn on the site. I did not have the chance to verify what happened, neither they did a single verification, just closed my account. I only had pictures of my cats and myself riding a bike and driving my car. I can not understand how this people works, but it seems pretty bad, as their site is full of problems, security issues, facilitates ped0philes to contact kids, lets p0rn uploads, they permit racist groups, even your profile can be easily hacked. |
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March 11, 2010: 7:45 am
“Block! You are engaging in behavior that may be considered annoying or abusive by other users. |
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November 19, 2009: 10:16 pm
It is too bad they don’t have a button for this, but at the same time, Facebook has the best security of all the big social networking sites it appears. They have pretty good abuse preventing teams and controls I think. |
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