Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

newsweek.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

81–90 of 160 posts

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

#81

Post by [deleted] »

greyscale_5 wrote: post #70
rayiner wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The identity of house buyers is a matter of public record. Not only is it searchable in multiple state databases (tax, real estate plats) but sale information including buyer and seller is typically published in the newspaper: https://www.chicagotribune.com/real-estate/sc-cons-0903-hous... > The information about your home purchase and the terms and conditions of your mortgage loan are recorded among the land records…

This is true! I assume you have no objection to me posting yours here?

[deleted]

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

#82

Post by BigW1lly »

cousin_it wrote: post #53
nvr219 wrote: post #3

Of all the ways Facebook restricts speech on its platform this one is pretty low on the list in my opinion. Seems like that particular article has some content that violates their doxxing policy (whatever that is). Other articles about the same topic can be shared including from Fox.

I don't remember FB applying that policy when the NYT doxed Scott.

NYT gets a pass, as does the Washington Post.

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

#83

Post by barbacoa »

lostmsu wrote: post #77
driverdan wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you are in a car and are attack you have the same self defense rights as if you were at your house. Something similar happened at a BLM protest in texas with predictable results.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12239517/garrett-foster-black-...

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

#84

Post by AlexTWithBeard »

driverdan wrote: post #52
Trias11 wrote: 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.

So at what time is it reasonable to apply force against a visibly aggressive person who is approaching your car yelling slurs?

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

#85

Post by dragonwriter »

BigW1lly wrote: post #78
temp0826 wrote: post #58

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.

> 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.

“the Chinese” at issue are people of Chinese ethnicity in (and, largely, citizens of) the US, so, aside from appeal to straight-up anti-Asian racism, why is this so interesting?

“Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people.”

https://cpasf.org/about/mission-history/

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

#86

Post by 1cvmask »

Causality1 wrote: post #20
commandlinefan wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> posting a link to the HN discussion Well... contentious stories get removed from here, too. This is a topic that gets contentious.

Oh yeah. Every time someone posts an article covering that GPT HN fiasco it gets flagged and removed almost immediately.

Many stories get flagged on HN as well and I assume for different reasons. Here is one flagged from an hour ago:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/journalists-learning-they-s...

I assumed it was worthy of discussion given the whole censorship debate and concepts of censorship like AI moderation or misinformation or disinformation.

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

#87

Post by nate_meurer »

antiterra wrote: post #74
nate_meurer wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No, nope, and no again.

Here's Reddit's definition:

"Doxxing is where a user publishes private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the Internet, typically with malicious intent." [1]

Twitter's:

"Sharing someone’s private information online without their permission, sometimes called doxxing, is a breach of their privacy and of the Twitter Rules." [2]

And Wikipedia's:

"Doxing or doxxing is the act of publicly revealing previously private personal information about an individual or organization, usually through the Internet" [3]

1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/modguide/comments/e6nl5o/doxxing/

2 - https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info...

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing

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

#88

Post by peripitea »

Fogest wrote: post #64
nefitty wrote: post #39

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

Isn't part of the problem here that a lot of the BLM donation money has gone to fund stuff like buying their big property? There have also been other scandals regarding misuse of the donation money and it has made many regional BLM groups call to question where the money is going. There is very little accountability and transparency yet we have large companies like Amazon feeding them money via donations.

Why are people implying this money must have come from BLM donations? She wrote a book that was on the NYT bestseller list, and presumably has other income streams beyond her work for BLM. I have no idea whether BLM is allocating their money properly or not, but it seems quite plausible that she has earned all the money in question through legitimate means.

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

#89

Post by ibeckermayer »

dragonwriter wrote: post #79
Alupis wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The OP that you’re replying under gives one...

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

#90

Post by AlexTWithBeard »

jokethrowaway wrote: post #21
winstonchecksin wrote: post #6

We had BLM protests in my city. I’m all for the message behind it, but they smashed up mine and my husbands car windows. Should have taken advantage of the lax work from home policy and should have stayed home I guess? I’m no fan of the actual “organization” or the people behind it though, and it’s sad FB is actively censuring information.

Nobody disagree with the message: of course, all lives matter. Everyone is also fine with the peaceful protesting (I mean actual peaceful protesting, not CNN's meaning of peaceful, which already became a meme). Whoever seek to loot, destroy and coerce people into stupid acts needs to be condemned. BLM leaders didn't condemn the violence, which make the BLM movement just a bunch of terrorists, same as Antifa. It doesn…

> Nobody disagree with the message: of course, all lives matter

You may be surprised, but quite a few people do disagree with what you've just said: https://www.vox.com/2016/7/11/12136140/black-all-lives-matte...

Post reply on HN