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Why your public Facebook comments are useless to the world?

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Re: Why your public Facebook comments are useless to the world?

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Before everyone piles on about the author being a technical idiot and assigning conspiracy to eventual consistency, it does reveal a more interesting insight in a world where tech folk are largely in denial of the real-world political consequences of their work - that eventual consistency can potentially provide a cover of plausible deniability to censorship.

Exactly. How fb privately moderates manually and can delete entire posts without question or reversal, falls through cracks.

Facebook needs to determine a way to score and moderate without annihilating individual writers selectively.

Even just cause it frequently has mistakes. We don't need to recreate jail statistics with guilt and innocence so pronounced by secret individual actions. We can record it.

Re: Why your public Facebook comments are useless to the world?

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post #10

I work with Ads on a lot of platforms, you can set that certain keyboards or phrases are blocked. In the sense that the post is still made, but it is not served to the public. Their is no conspiracy here, if anyone is causing that censorship it is the post promoter.

Yup.

An administrator of a Facebook page can hide a comment made on that page to all but the commenter himself and his friends. The other comments that the author saw disappear were most likely hidden while he was logging in/out. No conspiracy, just a spineless Facebook Pages feature.

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