‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies

Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by ttt0 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:54PM (#25143701)

I could bet money that the opposite of what you're saying is true. But I think that illustrates a much bigger problem. The society is so polarized, that we can't even agree on basic facts. Something went terribly wrong with the internet and the media and now we're living in two completely different realities, that are fundamentally incompatible with one another.

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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by cryptica on Thursday November 19, 2020 @03:28AM (#25147391)

Yes I think Facebook allowed the Fauci threats as PR to make themselves look neutral. Mark Zuckerberg and his employees have been playing good cop bad cop with us since the beginning to make the public perceive Facebook as a neutral bystander when in fact they're in a large part responsible for the whole mess and are not neutral at all.

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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by tstrimple on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:50PM (#25144886)

I would take that bet and your money.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/two-new-studies-show-again...

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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by lawnchair_larry on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @09:23PM (#25145507)

That report doesn’t address the censorship complaints at all.

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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by ttt0 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @08:09PM (#25145029)

I don't know, I haven't been on facebook since ages, because I got sick of constantly being banned for discussing politics.

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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by Arainach on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @09:35PM (#25145596)

Facebook doesn't ban you for discussing politics - unless your version of "politics" involves advocating for violence.

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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by ttt0 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:47PM (#25146004)

Now that's what I call a loaded question.

You're right, they technically don't. But they ban everything that can be even remotely interpreted as "offensive". To give you one example, I got banned for pointing out the appeal to nature fallacy. I've said that rape and murder is technically natural and yet it's not socially acceptable. Literally just that. Nothing less, nothing more. But someone either misinterpreted that simple sentence or found it offensive because of the context of the conversation, and thus I got banned.

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