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Does Facebook have rules that are consistently applied to every country? AFAIK, Facebook complies with the local governments' requirements everywhere it operate

Does Facebook have rules that are consistently applied to every country? AFAIK, Facebook complies with the local governments' requirements everywhere it operates even though they will occasionally publicize some resistance.

gmerc 3y ago
lol they fired heavily overseas so no. After 2018 90% of integrity work was focused on english.
system16 3y ago
There is no local law in Vietnam that says "you must allow the state's army of troll bots to harass anyone in the world that speaks Vietnamese". Facebook isn't complying with any local law here, and the behaviour in question isn't isolated to users in Vietnam. They are turning a blind eye to avoid retaliation for applying the same rules they'd apply elsewhere.
- bannedbybros 3y ago
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- kornhole 3y ago
  This is why I said local governments' requirements rather than laws. Those can be very different. As we have seen in US and elsewhere, intelligence agencies, institutions, and politicians exert influence in many ways. Most of this is opaque, but occasionally we get some leaks like the Twitter Files that reveal what is really going on.
- itake 3y ago
  > The law requires Facebook to set up offices in Vietnam (where operations can be controlled), hand over personal information to the government and remove content within 24 hours of government requests. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/10/02/how-facebook-is-damaging-freedom-of-expression-in-vietnam/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/... The law doesn't explicitly state allowing troll bots, but it does have extremely strong opinions about how Facebook operates in Vietnam.
denton-scratch 3y ago
> Facebook complies with the local governments' requirements everywhere it operates That sounds like a rule that's applied consistently, to every country. And yes, I know it's weasel words that mean exactly the opposite of what they appear to mean.

gmerc 3y ago

lol they fired heavily overseas so no. After 2018 90% of integrity work was focused on english.

system16 3y ago

There is no local law in Vietnam that says "you must allow the state's army of troll bots to harass anyone in the world that speaks Vietnamese". Facebook isn't complying with any local law here, and the behaviour in question isn't isolated to users in Vietnam. They are turning a blind eye to avoid retaliation for applying the same rules they'd apply elsewhere.

bannedbybros 3y ago
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kornhole 3y ago
This is why I said local governments' requirements rather than laws. Those can be very different. As we have seen in US and elsewhere, intelligence agencies, institutions, and politicians exert influence in many ways. Most of this is opaque, but occasionally we get some leaks like the Twitter Files that reveal what is really going on.
itake 3y ago
> The law requires Facebook to set up offices in Vietnam (where operations can be controlled), hand over personal information to the government and remove content within 24 hours of government requests. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/10/02/how-facebook-is-damaging-freedom-of-expression-in-vietnam/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/... The law doesn't explicitly state allowing troll bots, but it does have extremely strong opinions about how Facebook operates in Vietnam.

denton-scratch 3y ago

> Facebook complies with the local governments' requirements everywhere it operates That sounds like a rule that's applied consistently, to every country. And yes, I know it's weasel words that mean exactly the opposite of what they appear to mean.