Hollywood created ratings to prevent government policing of its content.
The company has also increased policing of video content in recent months, but its systems haven't always been accurate.
In the past, Facebook has sought to deflect criticism by blaming local dialects or less common languages as creating barriers to effective policing of dangerous content, but such excuses don't apply to Nyalong Ngong Deng Jalang's marriage — as the post was published in English.
In 2009, when TechCrunch did a series of articles about Facebook allowing Holocaust denial, a number of Jewish employees made public and internal arguments that it was not Facebook's place to police that sort of content, even though they naturally found it personally offensive.
Yesterday, China's Ministry of Culture (MoC), warned that it would strengthen checks and policing of online music content.
Instead of policing content, Congress and the FCC should adopt policies to increase the diversity of owners, the choices for listeners or viewers, and the opportunities for new voices to get on the air.
The notices so many of us received yesterday and the blanket notice that all name-based searches in the EU are now subject to censorship make it look more like a mischievous attempt to point up the impossibility of policing content on the internet within physical territories, enraging publishers and encouraging them to write about it.
In recent weeks, YouTube has been called out for its lack of policing around content aimed at children, for the obscene comments posted on videos of children, for its horrifying search suggestions, and more.
One problem is that it's quite expensive for service providers to police every single piece of content uploaded.
In a statement, a spokeswoman for the Met Police said 1,100 pieces of content that breached the Terrorism are removed each week from various online platforms - approximately 800 of these are Syria/Iraq related.
