Facebook Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the US and Israeli Governments
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Re: Facebook Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the US and Israeli Governments
#2Facebook is deleting accounts that violate its ToS, governments (not just the US and Israeli ones) report accounts that constitute a violation of their laws all the time and Facebook removes those.
Common examples are pages promoting illegal activities in a country - like drug dealing, weapons trade etc.
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#3Facebook is deleting accounts that violate its ToS, governments (not just the US and Israeli ones) report accounts that constitute a violation of their laws all the time and Facebook removes those. Common examples are pages promoting illegal activities in a country - like drug dealing, weapons trade etc.
Or promoting Palestinian civil rights. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/facebook-targeting-pal...
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#4Not good, though compared to the mainstream media lockdown I grew up under with uncle Walt and its "we've always been at war with eastasia" coverage, we live in charmed times.
I first saw this article on Facebook.
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#5There is no way Facebook can satisfy the competing demands of different political factions and their own users so the more they capitulate to political demands the more users they will drive away and the more radical the demands on them will become.
Hopefully this intensifies their downward spiral into irrelevance.
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#6Facebook is deleting accounts that violate its ToS, governments (not just the US and Israeli ones) report accounts that constitute a violation of their laws all the time and Facebook removes those. Common examples are pages promoting illegal activities in a country - like drug dealing, weapons trade etc.
Or promoting Palestinian civil rights. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/facebook-targeting-pal...
It's Facebook's business. They can run it any way they want. You want to promote Palestinian civil rights? Start your own Facebook.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or promoting Palestinian civil rights. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/facebook-targeting-pal...
It's Facebook's business. They can run it any way they want. You want to promote Palestinian civil rights? Start your own Facebook.
yes, the average Palestinian without any capital or internet access will just go into his garage and start a new facebook.
What a facetious and despicable comment. As the article points out that Facebook is one of the most important news sources for Palestinians. This is effectively shutting them out of the modern communication system and a civil rights catastrophy.
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#8This is what happens when everyone relies on some centralized global social network for their communications, instead of something they run locally on their own mesh network.
https://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2017/12/power-to-the-people/
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#9Here is funny story how it works in reality:
12/23/2017 Facebook banned the page of the Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Kadyrov (he has more power than police in Russia). FB said “that the accounts appear to be maintained by or on behalf of parties who appear on the U.S. Specially Designated Nationals List and thus, subject to U.S. trade sanctions." [1]
12/24/2017 Russian airline company registered FB page with the same name to get all traffic of the banned page.[2]
12/30/2017 Kadyrov makes this company to return this page back to him. The page is returned back to Chechen Republic[3].
Now FB is violating their TOS for transferring accounts and U.S. trade sanctions.
[1] https://www.rferl.org/a/facebook-instagram-kadyrov-chechnya-...
[2] https://meduza.io/en/news/2017/12/28/an-airline-makes-the-mo...
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's Facebook's business. They can run it any way they want. You want to promote Palestinian civil rights? Start your own Facebook.
yes, the average Palestinian without any capital or internet access will just go into his garage and start a new facebook. What a facetious and despicable comment. As the article points out that Facebook is one of the most important news sources for Palestinians. This is effectively shutting them out of the modern communication system and a civil rights catastrophy.
>yes, the average Palestinian without any capital or internet access will just go into his garage and start a new facebook.
Freedom of the Press, to those who own the presses. It's always been that way.
>What a facetious and despicable comment.
If I was responding to a comment about promoting alt-right ideology, it would be +1000 internets for sure. Same response, Facebook's business. You want to promote alt-right, start your own.