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Re: Facebook Censored Me For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon

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Post by NoblePublius »

tyingq wrote: post #14

This part is interesting... "We have fewer reviewers available right now because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak..." That smells fishy. Seems like a job that would be a really good fit for work-from-home. Wouldn't you then have more reviewers available? Or maybe the exposure to graphic content means they do this in the office?

The biggest unreported scandal in big tech is the 100s of 1000s of contractors that work exclusively for these companies. Accenture provides thousands of content moderators to FB, none of whom have any recourse to FB HR or rights to pursue union status at FB. Google is the same.

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Post by jdavis703 »

Nextgrid wrote: post #26
tyingq wrote: post #14

This part is interesting... "We have fewer reviewers available right now because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak..." That smells fishy. Seems like a job that would be a really good fit for work-from-home. Wouldn't you then have more reviewers available? Or maybe the exposure to graphic content means they do this in the office?

Covid is just a convenient excuse that people somehow still keep swallowing. If 2 years on covid is still a problem for you, that's less the fault of covid and more that you are incompetent at running your business. Surprisingly enough I've had more "our response to covid-19" and similar crap from tech companies that would be near-immune to it than from companies that would legitimately be impacted by it (those whose…

Perhaps tech companies care about their employees more than say food processors.

Re: Facebook Censored Me For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon

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Post by lamontcg »

ineedasername wrote: post #13
chmod600 wrote: post #4

Censorship is always abused. Maybe this time or maybe not. But it's always abused. And yes, it's worse than misinformation.

I'm not sure it's worse than misinformation. In my field, bad data often has a more damaging impact than no data . But I suppose it will depend on the circumstances, and I'd honestly be interested to hear your thoughts on why censorship is worse. As for the inevitability of abuse? When it comes to corporate interests, that seems to be nearly axiomatic. The Verge's list of fascinating & horrifying exchange at Apple ab…

It looks like we're going to get a massive test of largely misinformation (US) vs. largely censorship (China) writ large in the coming decades. Place your bets on the outcome.

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Post by jonnycomputer »

This has happened to me lots of times, for innocuous posts. Like, for example, copying a screenshot of a graph from the CDC, along-side with a link pointing to the CDC website I obtained it from. Or copying a inflation graph from a blog, and then linking to that blog in the same comment or post.

Not some conspiracy, just incompetence on FB's part. Of course some people would prefer to believe something nefarious.

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Post by jonnycomputer »

vmception wrote: post #2

This seems like an anticompetitive practice Even if its toward an open source federated network that has no head and can host marginalized content The implementation here seems to be an anticompetitive practice, which is sanctionable by governments in the US

"practice" assumes a lot here.

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Post by silisili »

mikeytown2 wrote: post #22

https://joinmastodon.org/ Might as well see what FB is scared about

So, seems mastodon is fragmented or segmented into many independent networks. Do those interact with each other in any way? I'd hate to join one and miss truly interesting content on another...is it possible to distill multiple into one on the user end? Just asking, as I've never tried it before and the concept seems a little confusing.

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Post by klyrs »

ipaddr wrote: post #25
ineedasername wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure it's worse than misinformation. In my field, bad data often has a more damaging impact than no data . But I suppose it will depend on the circumstances, and I'd honestly be interested to hear your thoughts on why censorship is worse. As for the inevitability of abuse? When it comes to corporate interests, that seems to be nearly axiomatic. The Verge's list of fascinating & horrifying exchange at Apple ab…

Bad data vs no data at all? I would think no data would put you out of a job while bad data would require more hires to filter the data.

I prefer employees who say "I don't know" over confident bullshitters.
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