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Interestingly enough this also would seem to play against the common narrative that right wing views are being immediately shut down on FB. It seems pretty cle
by munk-a 5y ago
Interestingly enough this also would seem to play against the common narrative that right wing views are being immediately shut down on FB. It seems pretty clear they're trying to shut down extreme conservative discussion but it also seems like they're failing pretty hard.
- TeeMassive 5y agoBeing popular doesn't mean not being suppressed. If anything this story proves they have a need to do so and that they failed.
- pjc50 5y agoThey're not trying to shut it down, they're very reluctantly doing so under public pressure. They're stuck between two backlashes.
- TaupeRanger 5y agoEvery ban adds fuel to the conspiratorial fire. It's something akin to the Barbara Streisand effect.
- smsm42 5y agoEven FB can't immediately shut down millions of people producing tens of millions of comments. Unless FB develops a human-level AI - or completely bans all right-wing personalities and any mention of them from accessing the service, which they aren't ready to do yet - there always will be people that slip through, and a lot of them. You can't pre-moderate a service with a billion users, especially when you're still pretending you're for open communication and have no ideological controls, and the moderation is just for safety.