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jsaxton86
on Feb 8, 2012
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BBC confronts Facebook troll
Since facebook allows US users under 18 years of age, don't they have a legal obligation not to host porn?
stonemetal
on Feb 8, 2012
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They could host it behind age checks. It seems like it would be easy enough for them to perform automatically.
nitrogen
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They could, but then they'd lose a large chunk of users who don't want to be even remotely associated with such a site.
william42
on Feb 9, 2012
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And this doesn't apply to Holocaust deniers because...
Anderkent
on Feb 9, 2012
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Because people don't care about Holocaust deniers as much as they care about 'indecent' pictures.
potatolicious
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In fact, Facebook's age-check would be 10,000,000% more effective than every other age-checked page on the internet.
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ysangkok
on Feb 8, 2012
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I don't think written porn is covered.
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