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Facebook is nautorious for silently banning anything right of center.

pjc50 8y ago
Hardly - they let the entire leave.eu campaign alone, and there are plenty of far-right organisations on there. I believe that eventually, after much public pressure, they banned Infowars? That's about it.
- gaius 8y ago
  Who says leaving the EU is a right-wing thing? The current leader of the Labour Party is far more anti-EU than the current leader of the Tories! Some things just don’t fit the classic left/right model.
  - Juliate 8y ago
    It's an extreme/desperate-wing thing (left or right, doesn't matter). Because that's the only way they know they can grab power: by making their people miserable, blaming the centrists or moderates, and triggering a revolt. That's the playbook for Brexit and so far, it worked. That's the playbook running in France right now as well - although they're trying to piggyback the still popular, uncoordinated movement. They're not even shy about it.
    - jessaustin 8y ago
      Lots of people are already miserable. Not the "experts" who have sold their intellects to maintain the status quo for the billionaires, of course. Lots of inequality, lots of bureaucracy, lots of rules, lots of violence, gives them lots of levers to pull. Unless you're such an expert, you shouldn't fear change.
      - Juliate 8y ago
        I'm not an expert - and I'm well aware of people having miserable living conditions already. And I'm well aware that in Europe, misery is more a matter of relative appreciation and of dynamics (which the media and the social networks nurture and feed on) than of absolute. Europe is rather well endowed, compared to the rest of the globe. Still... What I fear is disorder, irrational, unwarranted violence, managed by unaware & unapologetic kids who make money on it today and will write history tomorrow. Facebook/Twitter/Instagram & co are heavily contributing to set the world on fire by blowing on people's weaknesses and susceptibilities. The question to me is not if/when their demise will happen. The question is how to make it happen faster: either they lose, either balanced democracies lose.
pbhjpbhj 8y ago
They've worked with others (CA) to hand the UK over to the right wing. Do you have specific examples?
ben_w 8y ago
A very close friend of mine is a self-described “revolutionary” (Communist? Marxist? Something like that). She is convinced Facebook is biased against the left and secretly censoring all their content.

Hardly - they let the entire leave.eu campaign alone, and there are plenty of far-right organisations on there. I believe that eventually, after much public pressure, they banned Infowars? That's about it.

gaius 8y ago
Who says leaving the EU is a right-wing thing? The current leader of the Labour Party is far more anti-EU than the current leader of the Tories! Some things just don’t fit the classic left/right model.
- Juliate 8y ago
  It's an extreme/desperate-wing thing (left or right, doesn't matter). Because that's the only way they know they can grab power: by making their people miserable, blaming the centrists or moderates, and triggering a revolt. That's the playbook for Brexit and so far, it worked. That's the playbook running in France right now as well - although they're trying to piggyback the still popular, uncoordinated movement. They're not even shy about it.
  - jessaustin 8y ago
    Lots of people are already miserable. Not the "experts" who have sold their intellects to maintain the status quo for the billionaires, of course. Lots of inequality, lots of bureaucracy, lots of rules, lots of violence, gives them lots of levers to pull. Unless you're such an expert, you shouldn't fear change.
    - Juliate 8y ago
      I'm not an expert - and I'm well aware of people having miserable living conditions already. And I'm well aware that in Europe, misery is more a matter of relative appreciation and of dynamics (which the media and the social networks nurture and feed on) than of absolute. Europe is rather well endowed, compared to the rest of the globe. Still... What I fear is disorder, irrational, unwarranted violence, managed by unaware & unapologetic kids who make money on it today and will write history tomorrow. Facebook/Twitter/Instagram & co are heavily contributing to set the world on fire by blowing on people's weaknesses and susceptibilities. The question to me is not if/when their demise will happen. The question is how to make it happen faster: either they lose, either balanced democracies lose.

pbhjpbhj 8y ago

They've worked with others (CA) to hand the UK over to the right wing. Do you have specific examples?

ben_w 8y ago

A very close friend of mine is a self-described “revolutionary” (Communist? Marxist? Something like that). She is convinced Facebook is biased against the left and secretly censoring all their content.