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Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed

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Re: Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed

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Post by pawelk »

paulddraper wrote: post #6
officemonkey wrote: post #3

Facebook should really think about whether they want to piss off Romanians protesting. Christmas is coming.

Sorry, but I don't get the reference. Is Santa Claus Romanian?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu#Death

I think that, coincidentally, Nicolae would be Romanian for Claus?

Re: Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed

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Post by merraksh »

paulddraper wrote: post #6
officemonkey wrote: post #3

Facebook should really think about whether they want to piss off Romanians protesting. Christmas is coming.

Sorry, but I don't get the reference. Is Santa Claus Romanian?

Ceausescu was killed on Dec 25 1989, after widespread protests.

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Post by freedomben »

This is exactly why I think it's dangerous to have a company like Facebook censor people, even in the name of "fake news." It's within their right to do so on their platform, but I don't think they should. You'll never get it 100% right, and real/legitimate people will end up silenced because of it. I wouldn't want that on my conscience.

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Post by tudorconstantin »

As a Romanian what seems to happen is that a large group of supporters of the ruling party were coordinated in reporting the protests-related posts. I think facebook could easily implement an algorithm to detect reporting rings and actually suspending their member's accounts. Just like reddit is doing with the upvoting rings.

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Post by vkou »

rdtsc wrote: post #5

I was joking before and said that it is inevitable that Facebook, Google and Twitter will eventually sell SaaS (Silencing as a Service). But maybe it wasn't a joke after all... It is simply too tempting to not do it. They have information which the Stasis and KGBs of the past would kill for. One thing Romanian government should be careful with is not listening to protesters. That is at least one country where they ha…

> Occupy and anti-Trump protestors should study and learn how that works. You see to have effective peaceful protests, there has to be a credible threat of extreme and overwhelming violence that will follow unless the government listens. Government should be afraid of the people.

This is why the Civil Rights movement was successful (To a point). On the one hand, you had MLK preaching peace, and on the other hand, you had folks like Malcolm X, and the Black Panthers, who made it very clear that they will defend their rights.

White America was scared to death of the latter - to the point where they made concessions to the former.

Likewise with Gandhi in India. The British didn't leave because he made them feel bad - they left because if a revolt took place, they knew wouldn't be able to repress it.

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