> there is no censorship of the internet going on to appease the US government

Actually, there is a lot of censorship going on to appease the US government [0]

I wish there was a free source for this, but for whatever reason, it's really hard to find one for that particular documentary.

Which is all the more annoying considering that my payments for German public broadcasting actually financed the production of it.

[0] http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/the-cleaners/

interesting, I will take a look. Granted, I would still imagine that it is not the same type of censorship that the PRC is pushing. In the states, I can still talk badly about the government and trump, in particular, that is in no way the case in China.

I've been online for around 25 years and figured I know most of the nasty stuff going on.

But that documentary made me question my understanding of the Internet and had me realize how much of our "reality" is nowadays mostly perceived and shaped through social media. If it doesn't exist on social media, it might as well never have happened.

To give one of the worst examples: Pictures of "enhanced interrogations", performed by US soldiers on "terrorist suspects", are being deleted from social media with the reasoning "This is a known torture method by ISIS, deleted for being terrorist propaganda" because these Phillipino moderators, many just young students, often completely lack any real context or understanding of what they see.

> dont be evil was dropped a while ago.

In practice... maybe. In theory, it's still there in their Code of Conduct, right at the bottom.

Seems like upper management pays about as much attention to that as the average consumer pays attention to an EULA.

As we discuss this Facebook is meeting with the government. Politicians are concerned that Internet comments were used to 'manipulate' the previous election. The suggested solution is verifying the identity of online commentators.

interesting, i would actually be in favor of that on FB and other mainstream social networks and I would not consider that censorship in the traditional sense.

I agree that government concerning its self with tracking and quantifying the political views of citizens is not censorship. I find it disturbing and reminiscent of the German Democratic Republic.

> Also, there is no censorship of the internet going on to appease the US government so I think we are good there.

I'd add "at this moment"

ok and there is censorship in china rn, i dont understand your point. You could say "at this moment" about literally ANYTHING