Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

Post by vool » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 11:17 AM UTC

AnonHP wrote: post #64

I understand that this post is flagged because it can start flame wars and “not curious conversations”, but I’m curious about what people here from different parts of the world are seeing for these search terms. If censorship is indeed happening either due to manual flags or “AI” algorithms, people need to know what’s happening and if this is just anecdotal or geography specific or could be spreading to other countri…

Post by glimmung » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 11:25 AM UTC

Wickedflickr wrote: post #70

glimmung wrote: post #55

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We also outsourced our social media. That has to change - it's literally not safe. There is a lot of witless verbiage about the "town square", but precious little acknowledgement of the obvious fact that every town has its OWN square, and that's the point. For the last decade my feeds have been polluted by "content" about Brexit and Trump, almost all of which has been noise/distraction/propaganda. I'm sick to the bac…

I truly believe the Fediverse is a viable solution. I've found Lemmy to be an extremely viable alternative to Reddit. The fediverse, more than any other centralized solution, seems equipped to avoid the hellish pitfalls that profit-motive behemoths seemingly must sink into. There is no monetization, corporate decisions, manipulative algorithms; just self-hosted open source instances as far as the eye can see. Certain…

Post by jscohn85 » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 11:30 AM UTC

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louismerlin wrote: post #78

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Same here in Germany

Same in France, both #fucktrump and #democrats are censored, #republicans and #fuckbiden are allowed

Post by chneu » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 11:45 AM UTC

thiht wrote: post #86

ta8645 wrote: post #21

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The question for the people who find this outrageous, why didn't you find the opposite situation just as outrageous? For years, liberals have been tacitly and often explicitly endorsing censorious behavior of Twitter, Meta and others as not only legitimate, but desirable. And this outcome is exactly why that was a dangerous position to embrace. Because, soon enough, someone you don't agree with will come into power.…

#republicans has never been censored. And tbh when right/far right content is being censored, it’s usually because they’re lying or prove to be terrible human beings. Not the same thing.

Post by sirsinsalot » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 11:50 AM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #36

ta8645 wrote: post #21

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The question for the people who find this outrageous, why didn't you find the opposite situation just as outrageous? For years, liberals have been tacitly and often explicitly endorsing censorious behavior of Twitter, Meta and others as not only legitimate, but desirable. And this outcome is exactly why that was a dangerous position to embrace. Because, soon enough, someone you don't agree with will come into power.…

There's something to this argument, but a truly uncensored site 4chan style would never have been bigger than that site. The platforms have to censor CSAM; commercially, they end up having to censor slurs and abuse down to a level which the users and advertisers find acceptable. (also there's a lot of false equivalence going on here - 'democrat' isn't a slur!)