Report on Facebook's Responsibility in Policing Depraved Videos

This report delves into Facebook's complex responsibility in policing depraved videos, exploring both legal and ethical obligations. It examines whether Facebook has a duty to intervene in criminal situations broadcast on its platform, analyzing relevant legal precedents and ethical frameworks. The report proposes three proactive measures social media platforms can adopt to adhere to codes of conduct, and suggests two safeguards Facebook should implement to prevent the broadcast of violent acts. Furthermore, it investigates whether Facebook has an Ethics Officer or Oversight Committee and proposes two changes to encourage ethical platform use, focusing on hate speech, authentic identity, and user safety. The analysis draws on existing literature, news reports, and Facebook's policies to provide a comprehensive overview of the challenges and potential solutions in this evolving area of social media responsibility.

Facebook’s Responsibility in Policing Depraved Videos
Report

Contents
Discuss whether or not you believe that Facebook has a legal or ethical duty to rescue a crime
victim...............................................................................................................................................2
Suggest and elaborate on three (3) ways that social media platforms.............................................2
Propose two (2) safeguards that Facebook and other social media platforms should put into place
to help prevent acts of violence from being broadcasted................................................................3
Conduct some research to determine whether or not Facebook has an Ethics Officer or Oversight
Committee........................................................................................................................................4
Propose two (2) changes Facebook should adopt to encourage ethical use of their platform.........5
References........................................................................................................................................5

Discuss whether or not you believe that Facebook has a
legal or ethical duty to rescue a crime victim.
There are different legal obligations which are set to rescue the criminal under the particular
governing principles. The costs are set for the legal requirements with helping individuals to
handle the right doings and improve the wrong activites. The legal requirements are mainly to set
the law of enforcement with charging people, when they tend to work against law. The ethical
obligations do not have any legalised status where the obligation is based on human beings. The
total combination is about ethical philosophy, decision ideologies that focus on making ethical
decisions in corporate organisations. The moral obligations are mainly through determining the
human rights and analysing how the people make friends, post pictures or send messages on
messenger. The experts argue about the media which gives a sensitisation for the different crimes
and its perpetuation. Certain Samaritan laws are set under the volunteer protection laws with ban
on information and encouraging the communication or promotion with self-mutilation or eating
disorders. There are posts to reveal the identity of issues when Facebook remove the comments
(Goldsmith, 2015). The fundamental approach is to handle the expression where it does not have
any legal duty but an ethical obligation for crime victim. There is no legal duty to report a crime
but the social workers and the police officers in different states should be reported about the
crime.

Suggest and elaborate on three (3) ways that social
media platforms
Facebook can be considered to be proactive that tends to abide by the code of conduct. There is a
need to focus on:
a. Providing a higher security for protecting the users with handling the data at the time of
using the website. Hence, for this, secured browsing is important. The encryption of
messages and the posts are implemented mainly to prevent the other users to properly
access till they have been given any permission. The elimination of spam or contacting
people with any undesired data (Hing, 2015). Hence, the suggestions are important for
changing the current passwords as well.
b. The Facebook must provide with the Statement of Rights and the Responsibilities which
properly cover the service terms for the users of the websites. The updates are mainly to
handle the changes of the policies and the guidelines. The violation of these rights could
lead to the access or the part of Facebook account.
c. The policies of Facebook should be about advising the users about nudity, sexual content
etc, which should be banned (Lee et al., 2017). With this, a proper help centre to handle
the accounts when someone try to attempt to login from any unrecognized device or the
web browser.

Propose two (2) safeguards that Facebook and other
social media platforms should put into place to help
prevent acts of violence from being broadcasted.
a. Professional Conduct
The focus is on correctional staff and administrators who are a major key to ensure about
effective delivery of services. With this, the ACS code of ethics includes the professionalism and
the grasp of field of operations in ethical manner. (Rice et al., 2017) This tends to put the
stakeholders completely aware of the welfare of the standards of professional conduct. One
needs to strive to resolve the ethical issues with direct communication among the parties that
tend to seek for better consultation and stakeholders.
b. Knowledge
The information is set towards gathering knowledge with focus on ethics. The understanding is
about ACS Code of Ethics to focus on certification and the license with professional organisation
setup. The adherence is mainly attained when the party is private to its context and scope. Any
lack of knowledge or misunderstanding should not be considered as a major defence for being
charged for unethical conduct (Maskaly & Donner, 2015).
Conduct some research to determine whether or not
Facebook has an Ethics Officer or Oversight Committee.
Facebook does not seem to have any Ethics Manager, but they should work on it, but they are
only focusing on increasing the user count above 2 million. This dos not need any ethics

involved for proper product planning at early stages even when they are undercutting to move
fast ethic that spurred the company ascendance. The society need to focus on broadcasting the
social issue like bullying, discrimination and violence which should not be able to be viewed by
a single click (Murphy, 2016). A per the ethics committee, there is a need to bring a major
attention to the upper management of Facebook with handling the prevention of suicides and
murders which are viewed on the internet. According to the data policy of Facebook, we can
access, preserve and then share the information depending upon the requests based on legal
aspects. The search warrant, court orders are enough for the law to work on. Facebook has been
ethically responsible to handle the victims of the crime and then prevent the normal people from
the same. Due to the Cleveland murder, there has been additional “damage control” but till the
user flags a video inappropriately, it is impossible to say how much long would it take to remove
the view by the concerned authorities (NBC News, 2017).
Propose two (2) changes Facebook should adopt to
encourage ethical use of their platform.
a. There is a need to focus on the different use of hate speech. With this, the attacks are
directed mainly to the individuals due to their race, ethnicity and the natural origin with
sexual orientation. A proper monitoring could be practiced for eliminating the forms of
the abusive communication (Neil & Moody, 2015). It is important to monitor the
procedures where the individual tends to make use to remove profiles which are not
genuine. This will help in managing the extensive instruction for the users to clearly
handle the creation of page rather than a profile.

b. Facebook also removes any type of the abuse comments, when they detect it. There is a
need to sanction against the individuals with the better law extent. The policy is generally
set under the authentic identity which needs to be enforced for the user safety of
Facebook. Here, the large amount of identity theft is present. Hence, the use of authentic
identity could be helpful in completely eliminating the deceptive practices like cat fishing
or the hacking accounts.

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