Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain
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Re: Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain
#2Facebook did this back in December too before admitting a "mistake" and reversing it. Get it together please FB.
I tried to see what the SWP comments on covid were. They seem pretty mainstream (not covid denialism). Ironically their "demands" from December are now government policy...
https://swp.org.uk/schools-are-not-safe/
I'm not sure where I stand on Facebook's (etc) right to remove legal content, but I would like a requirement for any platform to specifically state why they removed content. Too often things are taken down for no reason and get put back up based on twitter outrage rather than any logical basis. YouTube are getting infamous for this...
Re: Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain
#3Facebook did this back in December too before admitting a "mistake" and reversing it. Get it together please FB. I tried to see what the SWP comments on covid were. They seem pretty mainstream (not covid denialism). Ironically their "demands" from December are now government policy... https://swp.org.uk/schools-are-not-safe/ I'm not sure where I stand on Facebook's (etc) right to remove legal content, but I would lik…
Any time I see one of these "mistakes" I read it as "content got flooded with reports and our automated system took it down"
Re: Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain
#4The organization bills itself (on it's Facebook page) as:
The Socialist Workers Party is the largest revolutionary group in Britain
My guess is that tag line is causing automated take down issues.
Re: Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain
#5Facebook did this back in December too before admitting a "mistake" and reversing it. Get it together please FB. I tried to see what the SWP comments on covid were. They seem pretty mainstream (not covid denialism). Ironically their "demands" from December are now government policy... https://swp.org.uk/schools-are-not-safe/ I'm not sure where I stand on Facebook's (etc) right to remove legal content, but I would lik…
Any time I see one of these "mistakes" I read it as "content got flooded with reports and our automated system took it down"
I think that would be fine as an initial reason. Having had that back in Dec, you'd think they would put SWP on a safe list? Who knows, I guess. And that's the problem, not so much the taking down as the taking down with zero reason or discussion...
Re: Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain
#6The organization bills itself (on it's Facebook page) as: The Socialist Workers Party is the largest revolutionary group in Britain My guess is that tag line is causing automated take down issues.
Facebook has been around since 2004, that excuse must have been used before.
Re: Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any time I see one of these "mistakes" I read it as "content got flooded with reports and our automated system took it down"
I think that would be fine as an initial reason. Having had that back in Dec, you'd think they would put SWP on a safe list? Who knows, I guess. And that's the problem, not so much the taking down as the taking down with zero reason or discussion...
This is how the right has been feeling for a while. This is nothing new behaviour-wise for Facebook, the only difference is this gets more favourable media attention.
Re: Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain
#8The organization bills itself (on it's Facebook page) as: The Socialist Workers Party is the largest revolutionary group in Britain My guess is that tag line is causing automated take down issues.
Facebook has been around since 2004, that excuse must have been used before.
I'm sure it has. Perhaps a more recent "revolutionary event" in the USA has prompted a change in automated filtering. Just a hunch though.
Re: Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain
#9I assume this is a mistake, although I think they're mad I don't think the SWP are malicious a la some political sects
Re: Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that would be fine as an initial reason. Having had that back in Dec, you'd think they would put SWP on a safe list? Who knows, I guess. And that's the problem, not so much the taking down as the taking down with zero reason or discussion...
This is how the right has been feeling for a while. This is nothing new behaviour-wise for Facebook, the only difference is this gets more favourable media attention.
There are some big open questions for us as a society on this.
I don't approve of calls for violence and I thought Facebook etc were doing well at free speech until the last year or two. It seems like no one is happy with that anymore.