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Re: Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”

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Post by shadowgovt »

varispeed wrote: post #18

Not sure why it is suprising? If the state wants something to be censored, corporations have very little room to wiggle out. It's funny how Overton window is moving. I remember in the 90s, the mere suggestion that the west could experience Soviet level of censorship was considered deluded conspiracy thinking. Now the population is very much okay with censorship as long as content they don't like is censored. But prop…

It's not even guaranteed it's for state censorship.

FB has a business interest in tagging and blocking "Hey, check out my new hot pics on scamsite.stealyourdata.haxx"-type messages because they harm their users.

Re: Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”

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Post by a_imho »

shadowgovt wrote: post #22
mrslave wrote: post #15

Censorship is cool when cool new tech companies are doing it.

The market (in both the "stock" and "free people choosing their service providers" senses) seems to think so.

Imo this is more like the case where the market/money reflects the opinion of the 1%.

Re: Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”

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Post by southerntofu »

shadowgovt wrote: post #21
varispeed wrote: post #18

Not sure why it is suprising? If the state wants something to be censored, corporations have very little room to wiggle out. It's funny how Overton window is moving. I remember in the 90s, the mere suggestion that the west could experience Soviet level of censorship was considered deluded conspiracy thinking. Now the population is very much okay with censorship as long as content they don't like is censored. But prop…

It's not even guaranteed it's for state censorship. FB has a business interest in tagging and blocking "Hey, check out my new hot pics on scamsite.stealyourdata.haxx"-type messages because they harm their users.

FB has been doing political censorship for over a decade. First they started with torrent links, then anarchist propaganda. Since they introduced shadow-banning i haven't really followed the latest developments, but they definitely have been collaborating with other entities on what to censor.

Re: Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”

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Post by fullstop »

zozbot234 wrote: post #26

Profanity filter running amok? See the old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

Ages ago, I remember some corporate mail server (Corel?) blocking some emails which were discussing Microsoft Exchange. They were blocking "sexchange" and "msexchange" matched.
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