Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed
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#2This happened as this related article (http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/11/07/facebook-cant-cope-with-...) was on the front page of HN yesterday.
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#3Facebook should really think about whether they want to piss off Romanians protesting. Christmas is coming.
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#4Proof that any technology has a double use. Once is good to filter spam/fake news, but in this case the fast spreading of the news is crucial for rallying people to a cause.
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#5I was joking before and said that it is inevitable that Facebook, Google and Twitter will eventually sell SaaS (Silencing as a Service).
But maybe it wasn't a joke after all...
It is simply too tempting to not do it. They have information which the Stasis and KGBs of the past would kill for.
One thing Romanian government should be careful with is not listening to protesters. That is at least one country where they have learned to not piss off the people. In 1989 they rose up, caught and killed their corrupt dictator. All in the matter of days.
Nobody forgot that. In early 2017 I remember they passed some decree to weaken some corruption laws. People came out to protest and within days decision was reversed. It was quick and short. Everyone wiped hands on pants and went home.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/world/europe/romania-prot...
Occupy and anti-Trump protestors should study and learn how that works. You see to have effective peaceful protests, there has to be a credible threat of extreme and overwhelming violence that will follow unless the government listens. Government should be afraid of the people.
The interesting development is that with Facebook and large centralized social media companies, the strategy seems to silence and prevent these protests from forming to begin with.
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#6Facebook should really think about whether they want to piss off Romanians protesting. Christmas is coming.
Sorry, but I don't get the reference. Is Santa Claus Romanian?
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#7Facebook should really think about whether they want to piss off Romanians protesting. Christmas is coming.
Sorry, but I don't get the reference. Is Santa Claus Romanian?
It's about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Nicolae_and_Elena_Cea... , i.e. we "trialed" and subsequently executed the Ceausescu couple on Christmas Day 1989.
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#9Facebook should really think about whether they want to piss off Romanians protesting. Christmas is coming.
Sorry, but I don't get the reference. Is Santa Claus Romanian?
A previous Romanian protest led to a show-trial on December 25, 1989. The sentence was execution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Nicolae_and_Elena_Cea...