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Re: Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott

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No, nobody pays attention to an organized effort to push propaganda. I question the health of anybody who believes in Veritas

Facebook does. They instantly fired HR person who appeared in the most recent video.

Of course they did. They’re not a free speech platform and obviously they’re concerned with their advertising money

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FB is also not doing enough to stop spreading false misinformation and propaganda. I have seen a anti-EU page sharing lots of untrue and simplified claims. It is censoring people so after I asked them to provide sources and proofs of these claims or attempted to explain some of them myself, they blocked me. They keep only anti-EU fan comments there. And I can't even report the page to FB as there is no "misinformation" report category. This is slowly polarizing the society and amplifying anger.

Re: Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott

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> There would then be a vacuum where other actors to fill > if there's an opportunity, people are going to take it. Good, we need more platforms (preferably decentralized) to cultivate free thinking and public form. Not a centralized entity that bends to the will of domestic and foreign governments and angry mobs.

You might be right, although I don't think it's nearly so certain. Why wouldn't each niche community just become an even greater echo chamber when they are decentralized and don't have to follow the same community guidelines? Seems to me, you'd be looking at a lot of communities like /r/thedonald.

I think the action taken with /r/thedonald contributed more to what you are warning against (echo chambers) [0].

"Community Guidelines" can mean anything or whatever confirms to the CEOs biases.

From the article "Current CEO (and Reddit co-founder) Steve Huffman stepped in as CEO following Pao's departure. He's had his own tussles with r/The_Donald: in 2016, he admitted to modifying posts from users on r/The_Donald after they repeatedly sent him expletives. "

And

"Others on Twitter have taken issue with Huffman's letter regarding Black Lives Matter as well, with the Twitter account for r/BlackPeopleTwitter quoting Reddit's tweet with an image of a Guardian headline that reads, "Open racism and slurs are fine to post on Reddit, says CEO."

0:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/reddit-...

Re: Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott

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Literally anything can lead to violence. It’s just a matter of interpretation. How about stopping with the censorship and fighting with the violence itself?

> Literally anything can lead to violence. Literally anything and lead to anything, that's not an argument it's a distraction. > How about stopping with the censorship For the 1,000,000th time, private company cleaning up garbage content its "censorship". Only governments engage in censorship. Every private business has the ability to clean up their space without needed to ask permission.

Asserting that "Only governments engage in censorship." is objectively false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censorship

While government censorship naturally comes to mind, anyone can practice censorship from governments, private organizations, and even individuals.

Re: Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott

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> Literally anything can lead to violence. Literally anything and lead to anything, that's not an argument it's a distraction. > How about stopping with the censorship For the 1,000,000th time, private company cleaning up garbage content its "censorship". Only governments engage in censorship. Every private business has the ability to clean up their space without needed to ask permission.

> Literally anything can lead to anything. I’m glad you get my point. > private company cleaning up garbage content its “censorship” And again ) Jokes aside - I am still waiting when people like you start burning books with “garbage” content. I’ll give it 2 years from now. Oh wait, haven’t you already started? Thinking of “Gone with the Wind” now. Oh, it’s back already. But with a disclaimer that it ‘denies horrors o…

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> Literally anything can lead to anything. I’m glad you get my point. > private company cleaning up garbage content its “censorship” And again ) Jokes aside - I am still waiting when people like you start burning books with “garbage” content. I’ll give it 2 years from now. Oh wait, haven’t you already started? Thinking of “Gone with the Wind” now. Oh, it’s back already. But with a disclaimer that it ‘denies horrors o…

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Low effort.
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