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Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

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Re: Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

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I’m sure the 535 million people who recently had their personal information leaked by Facebook - the ones Facebook didn’t even bother to notify - will be glad to hear about Facebook’s strong stance against the sharing of personally identifying information.

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I’m confused. Are Marxists not supposed to be rich or own property? What would an ideal Marxist do with their wealth, donate it?

Marxist are not supposed to be wealthy, because all their earnings should be equally distributed across all the employees in their business.

Re: Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

#73
Never been much of a fan of Facebook, but at this point it's basically turned into the McDonald's ball pit:

A pile of colorful, air-filled items (mostly ads) that lures certain people into coming back because they have nothing better to do than dive into some filth. Adults aren't allowed (no conversations, content, or political views that management doesn't agree with - "it's safe because look, everything around you is squishy and we don't allow things with sharp edges"), and if you spend time there, you're probably going to leave smelling like excrement.

Re: Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

#74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doxxing that results in harassment is very often done via public information. What’s your point?

No, doxxing is the release of private information. That's the universally understood meaning of the term, and the only useful one. If you want to redefine the term to pertain to public information, then the term is no longer useful. It's just "displaying public information" at that point.

I think there are multiple social media sites that consider giving addresses and personal information to be ‘doxxing’ regardless of whether or not the info was found in public databases. Twitter, Wikipedia and Reddit being examples.

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Nevada you can legally protect yourself and your loved one inside occupied vehicle (or house) during attack with a deadly weapon. Which means make a colander out of worthless idiot.

If you think killing someone over smashing a window is reasonable you need to seek help immediately. Please talk go a mental health professional.

That is not what parent meant, but I think it is reasonable when you are in the car.

Re: Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

#78

I guess I am further out of the loop than I thought (and imagine I'll get reemed for this comment), but I thought BLM was a movement (with dubious Russian propagandic origins designed to fuel divisiveness, but turned mostly noble), not an organization. How did this org even come to be? I'd love to read an actual timeline or history of this all.

Slightly unrelated but for people that don't know, the "Black Futures Lab" which is an organization directly tied to BLM, is being funded by the "Chinese Progressive Association." I don't know what this entails but it's nice to see that the Chinese are interested in progressivism here in America.

Re: Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The identity of house buyers is a matter of public record. That…has no bearing on whether sharing it violates Facebook policy on “privacy and personal information”. What would have a bearing would be citing the language of the policy and showing how the action was inconsistent with it, and I suspect that is not happening because the action is, in fact, consistent with the policy.

It's difficult to see this as anything other than a selectively enforced policy, which seems to be applied in a very lop-sided politically-motivated way. Whether it's a policy of Facebook's or not is completely irrelevant. If they do not enforce this policy consistently, it opens them to accusations of political bias... which is what we have here.

> It's difficult to see this as anything other than a selectively enforced policy

I have seen no presentation of acts similarly situated with respect to the policy which have been treated differently. What is the basis for the claim of selectivity?

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