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Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE
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#82Social media companies post record earnings year after year from their ads business while increasingly proving to be harmful to society. They do the bare minimum in terms of content moderation and bots while priming the algorithms to maximize revenue. The good ol' privatized profits, socialized harm model. In a just world, would social media platforms be taxed higher on corporate revenue and how would that pan out? M…
Broadly, I think an ad tax that hits both ad platforms and ad purchases would do a lot to focus businesses.
Re: Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE
#83The title should read "Saudi Arabia". Cutting a country name in half (unless its an accepted way of abbreviating it) is not a good say of modifying a headline. What is next? Zealand ?
Its the Saud's Arabia. That is a family name. Signifying its the Suad part of Arabia.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about we first ask what the practices are before we judge the practices?
Which part of my post judged the practices? I just want to understand the other user's motivation for complaining because my experience was the polar opposite. I am related to several health professionals, and none of them ever complained about feeling censored in any way.
Your first paragraph set a tone that I would interpret as a "who do you think you are?". But that might just be written text and cultural differences.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Buddy... Are you a doctor? Are you a scientist? Why do you think that you have an inalienable right to proselytize your "health practices" on a public forum? My experience was that there wasn't nearly enough moderation on social media about Covid. The absurd amount of misinformation was the final straw that finally got me to leave Facebook and Instagram.
The problem during the pandemic was, even health professionals' personal accounts got censored. It was hectic.
Yup. My experience was this. Many professionals I knew were censored, one of the biggest was an old family friends' mentor who ultimately lost his job in Virginia. He became a big name and ultimately, sued the FDA and won money though the court sealed it I believe or there was some outcome where things couldn't be disclosed. I think those are common with big govt cases.
Re: Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about we first ask what the practices are before we judge the practices?
Which part of my post judged the practices? I just want to understand the other user's motivation for complaining because my experience was the polar opposite. I am related to several health professionals, and none of them ever complained about feeling censored in any way.
It came off to me as Ad Hominem, making it very difficult for me to engage you.
Re: Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE
#87What is a “human rights account”? Another reading of this headline is “Meta blocks western propaganda…l
Re: Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE
#88Every developer, and particularly every developer at Meta or who is thinking about working at or with Meta, should read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_People
It is useful, because instead of being surprised and reading this article, you can nod your head and go about your day because you already knew they were a company that was rotten to its core.
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#89Do folks have a suggestion for a Facebook alternative? I'm about fed up with the state of things, but still want to feel connected to social circles (even if they're online only) and politics (ideally without the hate spam bots).
The software is never the issue with this, it's where people are that's the problem. Though I did witness my age-peer friend groups finally switching to Signal in the late 2010s (away from Facebook Messenger), I don't actually know what convinced them. The security-conscious minority element had been pushing it since it started but were generally mocked. I think it finally showed up in a New York Times article, which is what helped them.