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Facebook Auto-Generating Militia Pages as Extremists Organize in Plain Sight
- forgottenusa 2y ago[flagged]
- schiffern 2y agoThese are unregulated Militias.
- forgottenusa 2y ago[flagged]
- Scanner771 2y agoThey have a right to protest (The First Amendment) just as you have a right to have a gun.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- throwaway314155 2y agoThis comment, and your downstream replies are very clearly against the guidelines here. In particular, it is flamebait. You're effectively guaranteeing that this whole thread gets flagged and buried.
- maxbond 2y agoAssuming the parent comment is correct, editing the subject comments (which I haven't read) to be a dot is very respectable. I write a lot of comments that would start flame wars. The extent to which I succeed in not starting them is the extent to which I delete them.
- thisisnotauser 2y agoThis is a great example of how these massive for-profit companies can be actively harmful to the public good. I'm not sure how to combat these issues, which are genuine challenges against freedom everywhere, but perhaps stronger oversight from our elected leaders should be involved, the way Congress is able to put a check on our public institutions.
- bsder 2y agoWe already have laws for this. "Auto-generating" steps outside of "user generated content" and Facebook should get charged with conspiracy.
- Nasrudith 2y agoHow about treating the root problem (that there are masses enough of people talking about it to trigger more benign mechanisms) instead of just demanding that they sweep it under the rug?