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Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India

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Post by rodgerd »

mancerayder wrote: post #9

Shocking. What do the pro censorship people say all the time when defending Facebook or Twitter: speech is free but not free from consequences. I believe that's the line.

The Indian government's position is perfectly in line with so-called free speech defenders: they are shutting down illegal content, not applying their own judgement.

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Post by neither_color »

mancerayder wrote: post #9

Shocking. What do the pro censorship people say all the time when defending Facebook or Twitter: speech is free but not free from consequences. I believe that's the line.

I believe they say "as long as we censor just this one particular politician because he's really bad just this one time using a variety of arbitrarily enforced technicalities, it's not censorship and it'll never come back to haunt us."

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Post by encryptluks2 »

ta9999 wrote: post #2

They're unable to handle their child pornography problem but they can still find the resources to rig democracies. Why people let any of their software near their computers is a very interesting psychology problem.

I'm not aware of a major child porn problem on Facebook. It is a dominant social media platform. You make it sound like it is rampantly abused by a bunch of pedos to share images of naked kids, when in reality the problem is mostly teens sharing photos of themselves with friends or other teens sharing photos in message groups. In one statement you mention not letting their software near their computers, presumably because of privacy issues but in the next you indicate the the only solution would be to enact more spying and privacy intrusion.

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Post by encryptluks2 »

rodgerd wrote: post #10
amrrs wrote: post #4

Indian Government recently made Twitter do similar things. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/26/twitter-under-... Do you know what's worst? A guy was booked yesterday for Tweeting he needed oxygen cylinders which according to a state government is spreading fake news. https://thewire.in/government/amethi-up-police-arfa-khanum-s... While COVID hasn't been kind to the people of India, The current regime's atte…

COVID is a catastrophe in India because the government's core is religious extremism and other forms of bigotry, and those have driven its response, including cabinet members promoting folk remedies above vaccines and encouraging large religious gatherings (including an upcoming one).

I guess in America there is a lot of the same with some groups of people believing they can pray the virus away or that it simply doesn't exist and is part of some satanic cults agenda.

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Post by tracer4201 »

robofanatic wrote: post #7
tracer4201 wrote: post #3

I’m disappointed in Facebook and saddened by what’s happening in India. Modi is slowly erasing secularism in favor of Hindu nationalism. People speaking out against him are accused of being Pakistani agents. And his governments response to COVID has been a disaster.

bet you haven't read the article at all because your comment has nothing to do with it.

> On its website, Facebook said it had hidden posts with “ResignModi” hashtag because some of those violated its community standards

What did I not read? Please clarify

Re: Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India

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Post by Jaygles »

eyear wrote: post #12

I never used Facebook. What's the use of it?

When it first came out it was actually a pretty good tool to communicate, coordinate, and share things with your friends. Over time they monetized the platform until it no longer resembled anything useful, but it has too much inertia and keeps chugging along.
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