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Yes, it seems unlikely this is deliberate. The SWP is about as likely to forment a revolution or incite violence as Judi Dench. They're a bunch of harmless ecce
by Veen 6y ago
Yes, it seems unlikely this is deliberate. The SWP is about as likely to forment a revolution or incite violence as Judi Dench. They're a bunch of harmless eccentrics.
- fao_ 6y agoQuite literally. The only vaguely-'revolutionary' thing the SWP have done in the last 10 years is provide protest signs for movements that other, more influencial groups of people started.
- wilsonrocks 6y agoIf I see any pictures of UK footage I can usually identify the signs the SWP have given out by the font.
- im3w1l 6y agoAccording to the article, it was not just the page that was removed. That could have been a mistake, I suppose. But Facebook also banned "dozens of leading SWP activists". That sounds like a very deliberate action to me.
- notahacker 6y agoTo me that sounds even more like an algorithm at work, and quite possibly one more concerned with identifying possible fake accounts than identifying political violence (Relevant context: the SWP is tiny and inconsequential, but very active in coordinating its [unlikely to be violent] messaging and inflating its importance. Nobody would know who its "dozens of leading activists" were to target them. And its local group pages are still up and easily discoverable by searching, so if it was a deliberate action to silence the party it would be a very sloppy one)
- dathinab 6y ago> that sounds even more like an algorithm at work It doesn't matters. You are as much responsible for decisions done by your algorithms as you are for decisions done by people. If you can not guarantee that algorithms work in the parameters of moral and law you can not use them. It is that simple.