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Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

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Re: Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

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Post by dang »

mustafa_pasi wrote: post #87
riku_iki wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It is not the words of one "priest", but of all the Catholics in the compound. And I love how you appended "Palestinian" to try to discredit him, as if a Palestinian's word is not worth much, but the word of the IDF, who have been caught lying through their teeth about almost everything that has happened on and since 7/10 is. And you are wrong. The compound hosts more than just Palestinian Christians. Catholics from…

Please don't cross into flamewar. I know it's not easy, but it's necessary to try.

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

Re: Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

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Post by cmur »

rottencupcakes wrote: post #31
UrineSqueegee wrote: post #12

Eh this is really tricky, for exampe if I open instagram, Threads or tiktok 9/10 posts will be pro-palestinian with 1 being pro-israeli. Then some of the propalestinian post will be calling for genocide or celebrating the massacre of oct 7. IMO you shouldn't censor anything. That's the only solution. When something is propaganda or false just quickly tag it as such with why it is false like Xitter does.

Twitter has surprisingly become much better since Elon purchased it. The community tags are great and non-partisan, they fairly report on all inaccuracy. Even advertisers aren’t immune, I’ve seen community tags on paid ads calling them out for being drop shippers.

I have had the opposite experience with X, I find it hard to escape any cheap rage bait on my feed regardless of how I would tag or hide pages. It’s interesting you have this experience, though.

Re: Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

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Post by dang »

riku_iki wrote: post #148
za3faran wrote: post #146

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In what's happening today, it's not hard to identify who is killing tens of thousands of civilians indiscriminately.

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Please stop posting flamewar comments. You've done as much of that, maybe more, than any other single user in this thread. That's not ok.

I realize it's hard to discuss this topic without falling into that, but if you can't avoid it, please stop posting until you can. That goes for everyone else as well, of course.

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

Re: Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

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Post by kemayo »

fwefqf wrote: post #174
riku_iki wrote: post #142

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> Hamas is part if the resistance that by international law have all rights to fight the occupier by any means necessary including armed struggle But not by deliberately targeting civilians.

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October 7th did pretty notably feature a massacre of young people at a music festival, and some widespread killing of civilians at multiple different villages.

Are you employing some non-standard definition of "target" or of "civilian"? Claiming Hamas didn't do any of that?

Re: Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

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Post by fny »

fwefqf wrote: post #174
riku_iki wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Hamas is part if the resistance that by international law have all rights to fight the occupier by any means necessary including armed struggle But not by deliberately targeting civilians.

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Hamas regularly fires rockets at civilian targets. Most of these rockets fail due to poor engineering or the iron dome.

Re: Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

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Post by orenlindsey »

Censorship has been done to both people with right-wing views and left-wing views. It's not a question of if it's been done.

We need to stop censorship of people on both sides. Obviously, this is very hard (or it would have been done by now). My idealist brain wants some big, overarching solution but I don't think that's really possible.

Re: Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

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Post by RangerScience »

orenlindsey wrote: post #197

Censorship has been done to both people with right-wing views and left-wing views. It's not a question of if it's been done. We need to stop censorship of people on both sides. Obviously, this is very hard (or it would have been done by now). My idealist brain wants some big, overarching solution but I don't think that's really possible.

There’s a good piece from someone (formerly?) at Reddit about how to do moderation without consideration if content; I’m not expressing a take either way behind it being worth a look.

Re: Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

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Post by peyton »

GaryNumanVevo wrote: post #179
rottencupcakes wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter has surprisingly become much better since Elon purchased it. The community tags are great and non-partisan, they fairly report on all inaccuracy. Even advertisers aren’t immune, I’ve seen community tags on paid ads calling them out for being drop shippers.

Notably, Community Notes (formerly Birdwatch) was released in Jan 2021. Elon just flipped the feature flag.

Worth noting Birdwatch launched alongside the ability to report tweets for misinformation, a feature Elon disabled. For that reason it’s difficult to conceive of Community Notes today as a simple continuation of the Birdwatch effort.
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