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If I'm reading right, the same facebook who announced a week or so ago that they where scaling back all moderation and validation around online safety, are now

If I'm reading right, the same facebook who announced a week or so ago that they where scaling back all moderation and validation around online safety, are now putting a blanket ban on users discussing such a fundamental aspect of modern technology that facebook itself runs on it? If this is a genuine policy, I'm at a complete loss to understand Facebook's stance on anything.

nonrandomstring 2y ago
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- dingnuts 2y ago
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  - spencerflem 2y ago
    yea this is true - & also not a democrat & also upset with some of the stuff they've censored in the past too W/ that said, censoring anti trans stuff and racist stuff makes the platform more pleasant for me, whereas what they're doing now does not
    - Conscat 2y ago
      As a trans occasional-user of Facebook, I never saw any censoring of transphobic hate speech. During any administration, I was fed very many posts from nominally pro-queer visibility pages that existed primarily to bait interaction from vehemently transphobic or homophobic users. I saw everything you could imagine stated with zero repercussions from site staff or even the consensus of other users.
      - spencerflem 2y ago
        They made it completely legal now, my understanding was that it used to be at least nominally against the rules. Totally agreed that it has always sucked though.
spencerflem 2y ago
the "free speech" was a promise to promote right wing speech. do not mistake it for ideology. banning left wing activism, either acknowledging the genocide in Gaza or apparently now promoting free (less surveilled) software is against what the authoritarians want so it is banned. this is all consistent if you see it through that lens
- CivBase 2y ago
  But it's not consistent because Linux is not aligned with either side of US politics. This doesn't address OP's confusion.
  - spencerflem 2y ago
    dang's probably right that its a glitch- but I honestly believe Linux is Free as in Freedom, which is opposed by both parties but primarily the radical authoritarians in charge right now
  - yellowapple 2y ago
    Linux is free software, and software freedom is communist. It's also the brainchild of a Finn, and every red-blooded American knows that Europeans are all commies. Real patriots use good ol' American operating systems, like Oracle Solaris™.
loeg 2y ago
Distrowatch has taken the observation that distrowatch URLs are blocked and really hyperbolized that into the broader and incorrect claim that discussion of Linux is banned. It isn't.

nonrandomstring 2y ago

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dingnuts 2y ago
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- spencerflem 2y ago
  yea this is true - & also not a democrat & also upset with some of the stuff they've censored in the past too W/ that said, censoring anti trans stuff and racist stuff makes the platform more pleasant for me, whereas what they're doing now does not
  - Conscat 2y ago
    As a trans occasional-user of Facebook, I never saw any censoring of transphobic hate speech. During any administration, I was fed very many posts from nominally pro-queer visibility pages that existed primarily to bait interaction from vehemently transphobic or homophobic users. I saw everything you could imagine stated with zero repercussions from site staff or even the consensus of other users.
    - spencerflem 2y ago
      They made it completely legal now, my understanding was that it used to be at least nominally against the rules. Totally agreed that it has always sucked though.

spencerflem 2y ago

the "free speech" was a promise to promote right wing speech. do not mistake it for ideology. banning left wing activism, either acknowledging the genocide in Gaza or apparently now promoting free (less surveilled) software is against what the authoritarians want so it is banned. this is all consistent if you see it through that lens

CivBase 2y ago
But it's not consistent because Linux is not aligned with either side of US politics. This doesn't address OP's confusion.
- spencerflem 2y ago
  dang's probably right that its a glitch- but I honestly believe Linux is Free as in Freedom, which is opposed by both parties but primarily the radical authoritarians in charge right now
- yellowapple 2y ago
  Linux is free software, and software freedom is communist. It's also the brainchild of a Finn, and every red-blooded American knows that Europeans are all commies. Real patriots use good ol' American operating systems, like Oracle Solaris™.

loeg 2y ago

Distrowatch has taken the observation that distrowatch URLs are blocked and really hyperbolized that into the broader and incorrect claim that discussion of Linux is banned. It isn't.