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Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by petargyurov »

naturalpb wrote: post #3

Funny, I just signed up for a Facebook account this week after the news,having deleted mine in 2017. In my opinion, they are taking a step in the right direction. Clearly others disagree, which is their right. What isn't someone's right is to dictate truth, which is what Facebook will ostensibly do less of. Bravo

This is a very myopic take on things.

> dictate truth

What about the damage done by the millions of lies that people post on the platform to spread their bigoted agendas? What about how these platforms' algorithms ostensibly promote hatred and shocking material?

Just look at the Rohingya massacre [0] and tell me you're OK with it.

[0] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by naturalpb »

lawlessone wrote: post #6
naturalpb wrote: post #3

Funny, I just signed up for a Facebook account this week after the news,having deleted mine in 2017. In my opinion, they are taking a step in the right direction. Clearly others disagree, which is their right. What isn't someone's right is to dictate truth, which is what Facebook will ostensibly do less of. Bravo

That's great, what was it you were worried you couldn't say there?

I consume on social platforms, rather than creating. I was growingly aware of the platform's bias on the content I saw and opted out for reality (as close as one can get to it, anyway). The changes this week are a step in the right direction as other viewpoints are more possible, let alone tolerated.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by james_pm »

redeux wrote: post #4

I deleted my FB account a long long time ago and then a few years later I wanted to make a new one for business reasons and they blocked me from doing so. I’m not saying don’t delete your account - I still don’t have one, but be aware that it may not be as simple as just creating a new one if you change your mind in the future.

Same. I have Instagram and Threads accounts, but I tried to get Facebook back about 5 years after deleting it and immediately got asked for ID and then was banned with no appeal possible. I guess they take deleting your account very personally.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by jsheard »

naturalpb wrote: post #3

Funny, I just signed up for a Facebook account this week after the news,having deleted mine in 2017. In my opinion, they are taking a step in the right direction. Clearly others disagree, which is their right. What isn't someone's right is to dictate truth, which is what Facebook will ostensibly do less of. Bravo

Part of the pushback is because they are still dictating what you can say except for some very particular exceptions which give away their true intentions. You're still not allowed to call someone mentally ill as an insult, unless you're doing it homophobically or transphobically, in which case it's now explicitly allowed.

https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lf72fz3fas22

If they'd removed that rule altogether then it could be handwaved as merely "free speech absolutism", for better or worse, but officially stating that certain minorities are acceptable targets of abuse that's otherwise forbidden is something else entirely.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by UncleOxidant »

redeux wrote: post #4

I deleted my FB account a long long time ago and then a few years later I wanted to make a new one for business reasons and they blocked me from doing so. I’m not saying don’t delete your account - I still don’t have one, but be aware that it may not be as simple as just creating a new one if you change your mind in the future.

You couldn't use a secondary or business email account to sign up?

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by naturalpb »

petargyurov wrote: post #11
naturalpb wrote: post #3

Funny, I just signed up for a Facebook account this week after the news,having deleted mine in 2017. In my opinion, they are taking a step in the right direction. Clearly others disagree, which is their right. What isn't someone's right is to dictate truth, which is what Facebook will ostensibly do less of. Bravo

This is a very myopic take on things. > dictate truth What about the damage done by the millions of lies that people post on the platform to spread their bigoted agendas? What about how these platforms' algorithms ostensibly promote hatred and shocking material? Just look at the Rohingya massacre [0] and tell me you're OK with it. [0] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...

Opting for community notes rather than provably biased fact-checkers is akin to massacre, got it.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by rozap »

I applaud the tutorial, but even so it's easier said than done. I deleted mine maybe 10 years ago, before they offered a hard delete option, so all you had to do to un-delete it was log in. Then, Comcast email (yes I used a Comcast email when i created my FB account in like 2008, whatever) got owned and so too did my facebook account. I started getting texts from friends the other week saying my account was alive and posting crypto scams. No way to recover it, since the email was gone. All the account recovery options (even though they have my current email) led to the same void, so now I'm permanently locked out. Facebook is scum of the earth.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by tokioyoyo »

Pedro_Ribeiro wrote: post #9
rvnx wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depending on the website owners or influences there are always things you cannot freely say. Even here on this forum.

And what is that? Maybe I'm not deep enough into HN to know about this.

Eh, I'm just assuming OP holds views that a lot of people here disagree here with (thus end up getting downvoted), and writes it off as "not allowed to say it" here. That's usually the gist of why people complain about freedom of speech nowadays, regardless of their ideology. Yes, I understand there are billions of exceptions, and I understand how users get banned for "wrong think". But that happens literally everywhere, and all you have to do is to be loud enough to piss of the right people.

Everyone wants to be liked, and search for the venues where they can express their views where they would be a part of majority. Basically the reason why people skew towards echo-chambers, in real and digital life.

Re: How to delete your Facebook account

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Post by mixmastamyk »

bobjordan wrote: post #10
naturalpb wrote: post #3

Funny, I just signed up for a Facebook account this week after the news,having deleted mine in 2017. In my opinion, they are taking a step in the right direction. Clearly others disagree, which is their right. What isn't someone's right is to dictate truth, which is what Facebook will ostensibly do less of. Bravo

After living in China for 10 years and experiencing true suppression of freedom of speech, the desire of many here in America to silence others in the name of curbing "misinformation" is wild to me. I have no desire to replicate what they have in China here in America. Free speech is a precious thing on this planet. The only acceptable solution to speech one doesn't like or agree with is more free speech. Silencing p…

Best not to confuse the right to "free speech," with others publishing it electronically.
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