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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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dehrmann wrote: post #190
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.

> IMO you shouldn't censor anything. That's the only solution. Full disclosure: I work for Meta, but not on ranking, and my opinions are my own. Edit: this isn't specific to Meta; it's common to all content platforms. This is really hard. There's universally objectionable material like CSAM. That's (politically) easy to exclude. There are leaked state secrets the public should know. There's hate speech (laws vary by…

What you are effectively saying is "people in Meta will decide to be on one political side or the other. They will pick one political side to lose. They will sort/rank to be effectively censored (not scene in common usage). Pretend that can't be escaped". It can be escaped. Having the power to censor one political side is just too addicting for meta to use the self-control to not abuse that power. That is what is happening.

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

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Post by mensetmanusman »

londons_explore wrote: post #168

One day, there will be a bigish war, and comms between the sides will be cut off, either by law, or all comms links severed. At that point, every global business will have to figure out how to split their business in two, their database in two, their server infrastructure in two, etc. and have both halves work. I suspect that few businesses have prepared for such an eventuality, and I suspect severe disruption can be…

Just do what everyone does to fragile egos. You show Russia and China what they believe, and you show the rest of the world something else.

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Post by ignoramous »

cm2012 wrote: post #187
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.

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I don't think I've ever seen an anti-war post with more than 20 comments without 19 of them being seriously genocidal sounding towards Pal/Arabs; ex: https://twitter.com/freyisrael1/status/1734954135886115221

Funny how algorithms work. They make us see the world in binaries and absolutes; of one side being capable of no good and the other side capable of no evil.

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Post by arp242 »

hutzlibu wrote: post #97
mustafa_pasi wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, actually it is not. Stop with this dehumanization of Palestinians. They are human beings. They are not worth less than you just because they are on the other side of the fence.

Well yes, but what if they support the initial terror attacks? Massacring dance festival attendants and people in their homes is not self defence, it is terrorism.

Summarily executing people for thought-crimes does not strike me as particularly aligned with basic humanistic and liberal values.

And tons of Israeli also support rather distasteful things, including before Oct 7, which has been widely documented. Some of these people are currently ministers (e.g. Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, etc.). And many Americans, and Italians, and $any_other_nationality. I don't want to play "tit for tat" here but only for Palestinians have I ever seen the "well, they support Hamas, so therefore it's not a big deal" line of reasoning.

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riku_iki wrote: post #144
Chris2048 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The target is Hamas "Two Thirds of Gaza War Dead Are Women and Children" -- https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15503.doc.htm

that person didn't provide source of information. Likely this is data from local authorities, aka Hamas.

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

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Post by morkalork »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #210
londons_explore wrote: post #168

One day, there will be a bigish war, and comms between the sides will be cut off, either by law, or all comms links severed. At that point, every global business will have to figure out how to split their business in two, their database in two, their server infrastructure in two, etc. and have both halves work. I suspect that few businesses have prepared for such an eventuality, and I suspect severe disruption can be…

I love, in honestly both somewhat sarcastic but mostly very real sense, that hacker news discussion of global thermonuclear war...is how to prepare your database unique ID scheme for unforeseen sharding :->

We may be living in a radiological hellscape but at least we won't have ID collisions!
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