Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram • Hacker News Board

Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

#11

Post by tmountain » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 9:44 AM UTC

argsnd wrote: post #5

#fuckbiden works, #fucktrump gets censored. They better have a good explanation for why this is a bug.

They don't need explanations. America signed up for this. Now, everyone is just along for the ride.

Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

#12

Post by tmountain » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 9:46 AM UTC

ajoseps wrote: post #3

yeah i’m also seeing this. It might be a bug but highly suspicious

It's not a bug, people are reporting a long list of phrases that follow the same patterns (pro Trump, anti Democrat).

Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

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Post by binarymax » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 9:48 AM UTC

Don’t support meta. Don’t use their products. This has been obvious for so long. Just delete your accounts and move elsewhere.

Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

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Post by mjbale116 » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 9:48 AM UTC

- "It violates freedom of speech!"

- "This is a free market; if you do not like it use another platform!"

- "I thought $conglomerate" had our back! They had rainbows and all; is that all it took them to fold"?

- "No, this is not a systemic issue; conversation needs to be steered away from attacking the system and rather its a few bad apples! Go after them and stop asking for systemic changes!"

- "Any attempt at regulating companies in an assault on #freedom and must not be tolerated"

Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

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Post by Rodeoclash » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 9:49 AM UTC

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #6

Seems like several platforms are complying with fascists, so we should definitely be switching to decentralised platforms to communicate safely.

You cannot tech your way out of this.

Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

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Post by osmsucks » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 9:49 AM UTC

tmountain wrote: post #11

argsnd wrote: post #5

#fuckbiden works, #fucktrump gets censored. They better have a good explanation for why this is a bug.

They don't need explanations. America signed up for this. Now, everyone is just along for the ride.

"Everyone" worldwide? The rest of the world didn't sign up for this.

Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

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Post by gigatexal » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 9:49 AM UTC

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #6

Seems like several platforms are complying with fascists, so we should definitely be switching to decentralised platforms to communicate safely.

What’s especially offputting is the media not covering Elon’s Nazi salute

Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

#18

Post by Retr0id » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 9:49 AM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #10

Hamuko wrote: post #7

What does "don’t CW this" mean?

Presumably "apply a content warning label"?

Which is a strange thing to write on Mastodon, which afaik doesn't let anyone except the author label their own posts.

Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

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Post by octacat » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 9:49 AM UTC

Meta is switching shoes faster than it is stealing features from tiktok.

Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

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Post by inglor_cz » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 9:50 AM UTC

piva00 wrote: post #9

NotGMan wrote: post #4

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"What about?"

The thing is, "deplatforming" is always popular with people as long as the thoughts unpopular among those people are being deplatformed. But once the mechanism for systemic deplatforming has been built, it can be captured by other groups.

I suspect that after 15-20 years of the pendulum swinging to a fro, the "freeze peach" crowd may reconsider the value of, again, systemic tolerance.