Face book is an American social networking website owned by Face book Inc. Since September 2006, anyone over the age of 13 with a valid e-mail address can become a Face book user. This social networking website has its benefits as well as some shortcomings. An example of this shortcoming is the recent killing of a 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall.
Peter Chapman, a convicted sex offender set up a fake profile with stolen pictures, pretending to be a 19-year-old boy and lured a 17-year-old girl to her death. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) accused Face book for inadequate child protection safeguards for teenager on their site. Insinuating that: Face book is moral responsibility to put an "alert button" with which youngsters could report suspicions of being "groomed" by online pedophiles or cyber-bullies. Their reason being that, of the 267 reports that the CEOP received about suspicious activity on Face book last year, 43 percent concerned grooming but "only one or two" came from Face book itself. The rest come from other websites that has the CEOP alarm button. Face book declined the accusation and insisted that, its reporting system which is handled by its staff in liaise with the police is good enough to handle reports of grooming.
The occurrence of this crime elaborates that the precautions put in place by Face book still have some loopholes of which Face book is social-product liable. This is because their product causes harm to individual; in this case the 17-year-old girl and cost to the society for dealing with the case. Face book is a contributor in the sense that the existence and design of their site provide a forum for online pedophiles to grooming youngsters from ages 13 and above. This harm is foreseeable by Face book. That is why they implemented some precaution in the first place. However, with the precautions Face book has in place, there are still incidences like the case of the 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall. In order to avoid this from happening in the future a better alternative precaution is needed. Alternative precautions like the one proposed by CEOP.
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I am a Facebook user. I think Facebook is a good website that we can find our friends and classmates, even we play together when we are children. According to this case, CEOP accused Facebook for inadequate child protection, my point of view is Facebook is not legally wrong. There is some limitation to be a user of Facebook. The question is the internet is invisible, Facebook cannot observe all their users all the time. Every company has their own responsibility to the society. Facebook need to maintain the safety of users’ privacy, to prevail morally right and good thing and opinion and so on. For Facebook, it is also difficult to care about the entire young user for them to avoid dangerous. What Facebook need to improve is pay attention to the pictures and article with bad and grey opinion on their website and give the young people right opinion and direction.
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Facebook is in this case not responsible for the crime, but that does not mean that Facebook does not have any responsibilities. Since it accepts people as young as the age of 13, Facebook is morally obligated to protect especially her young users. Facebook is not responsible for the misuse of their service, but she can inform her users about the dangers of social media. If Facebook can make her service more safe by taking precautions like the alarm button, she will have to do that. Parents cannot see what their child is doing on the internet as much as in the "real world". Therefore, it is important that social media will take over some responsibility to make the web a little more safe.
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Facebook is a new platform and you can see it as a social product. Therefore facebook is responsible for what happens due to their platform.
Facebook should cooperate in making its platform safer.
However they can not be held responsible for the crimes at this moment, since social media regulations are still ubder developement.
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