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

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

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Post by dang »

lindy2021 wrote: post #22

The entire world is heading in the direction of China at breakneck speed. The capitol of the free world is surrounded by steel mesh fencing with some 2,250 armed National Guard troops on duty. We can't expect developing countries to uphold democracy as it dies in the west.

We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political/ideological battle. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26973340.

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

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Post by johnchristopher »

hn8788 wrote: post #91
bobthechef wrote: post #43

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Seems like a very caricaturish characterization of what people actually believe. That sort of broad contempt and unwillingness to understand the range of perspectives on the issues besides the "official" (read: oligarchic) narrative is unfortunate.

Some people definitely believe stuff like that, and it's not even only uneducated people. My mother-in-law went to the doctor for an annual checkup, and the doctor told her that it's pointless to get the vaccine because covid is man-made, and whoever created it will just release a new variant that is immune to the vaccine. Luckily my wife convinced her otherwise.

But which country are you living in ?

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

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Post by dang »

smt88 wrote: post #110
krapp wrote: post #52

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The US should consider itself lucky that its well armed neo-nazi lunatic fringe and the Orange Man were better at racist shitposting than pulling off a coup d'état. "Pretty good" sounds like a B, but I'd give this last election a C- at best.

Stealing two Supreme Court seats and meddling with the census were essentially a coup. GOP will remain the minority that runs the country for the foreseeable future.

Would you please stop posting political flamewar comments to HN? You did it repeatedly in this thread and it's not what this site is supposed to be for.

Others are doing it too, but not counting the account that started it (which we just banned), yours stands out as doing it worse.

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

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Post by smt88 »

dang wrote: post #173
smt88 wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stealing two Supreme Court seats and meddling with the census were essentially a coup. GOP will remain the minority that runs the country for the foreseeable future.

Would you please stop posting political flamewar comments to HN? You did it repeatedly in this thread and it's not what this site is supposed to be for. Others are doing it too, but not counting the account that started it (which we just banned), yours stands out as doing it worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I agree. I flagged the whole thread for that reason.

It sucks that reality has become so politicized, but I appreciate your moderation that mostly keeps it off the site.

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

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Post by smt88 »

99_00 wrote: post #148

When your side is silenced it's 'censorship', when the other side is silenced it is 'moderation' or 'removing misinformation'.

I broadly agree, but I think it's not exactly the problem here.

In this case, one "side" would be a government (assuming this was done at govt request), which means it is literally censorship to silence the other side -- regardless of where the truth lies.

If FB did it proactively to appease a govt (which they did/do in the US), then it's a lot murkier of an issue. It's almost like "soft" censorship.

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

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Post by sanmon3186 »

isatty wrote: post #124
1024core wrote: post #119

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Did you read that article? The guy's grandpa did not need oxygen, but died of a heart attack instead. During this time of crisis, it's common for governments to crack down on speech. You've heard of the "shouting 'FIRE' in a crowded movie hall" analogy, right?

I seriously hope that I won’t have to resort to name calling here on HN but are you for real? Oxygen and advanced life support is not unique to COVID and his tweets don’t say so either. How the hell is this equivalent to shouting “FIRE” in a crowded place?

To be fair, anyone looking for oxygen in the current situation would assume it is for Covid. Not saying 88 old grandpa of his cousin did not deserve attention, but the guy got called from cabinet ministry, thrice.

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

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Post by ddalex »

baybal2 wrote: post #152
ddalex wrote: post #142

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You can't breathe in industrial Oxygen. At least, you need a humidifier cycle in between or it's going to dry out your lungs.

The simplest bubbler solves this issue.

And then you need to filter the output of the bubbler because microparticules will be suspended in the gas flow, and then you need to sterilize it, because you don't know what's growing in the bubbler, and then cool it down (is sterilize by heating it), and then you need to regulate the pressure of volume, etc....

hacking-rig an industrial oxygen generator is a very different thing from being able to generate breathable medical oxygen - when you're done with all the steps you'll end up at something that's very expensive and difficult to maintain in the end

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

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Post by moduspol »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #164
moduspol wrote: post #153

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What theories? And how widely? Huge groups of people are being generalized as equivalent to people who genuinely believe COVID-19 isn't real. It makes reasoned discourse impossible. Though I don't think I'm letting the cat out of the bag here.

Essentially half of the surveyed Republican voters say they'll refuse the vaccine: https://www.wpr.org/gop-men-are-most-likely-say-theyll-refus... That's enough to elect a President and change the direction of the entire Federal government. The time when these people could be ignored, laughed at, or otherwise dismissed is unfortunately over.

Refusing the vaccine is not the same as believing COVID-19 doesn’t exist. You are proving my point.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

OmegaPG wrote: post #166
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…

TheWire is biased and not reliable source. I don't want to make this post political by mentioning names but this post has good information on the founders and their political background https://www.quora.com/Is-Thewire-in-biased

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

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Post by baybal2 »

ddalex wrote: post #177
baybal2 wrote: post #152

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The simplest bubbler solves this issue.

And then you need to filter the output of the bubbler because microparticules will be suspended in the gas flow, and then you need to sterilize it, because you don't know what's growing in the bubbler, and then cool it down (is sterilize by heating it), and then you need to regulate the pressure of volume, etc.... hacking-rig an industrial oxygen generator is a very different thing from being able to generate breatha…

That's natural, all breathing apparatuses already have to be treated like that. Having to washing the bubbler once in a while if a by far the better option to dying.

> When you're done with all the steps you'll end up at something that's very expensive and difficult to maintain in the end

Your alternatives?

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