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Re:Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-f... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:20PM (#26840095)
"The policy forbids articles that share details that could identifiy a person's financial and residential information."

Meanwhile selling access to Facebook users whose personal information matches certain financial, geolocation and other personal criteria, is how Facebook makes money.

Facebook is allowed to identify a person's residential and financial information, and it is allowed to use this information to sell access to users to other organisations, but it's a violation of Facebook policy for users to share this information.

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Re:Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-f... by dragonwriter on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:25PM (#26840133)
> Facebook is allowed to identify a person’s residential and financial information, and it is allowed to use this information to sell access to users to other organisations, but it’s a violation of Facebook policy for users to share this information.

Uh, so? “You can’t use our platform to compete with the means by which we monetize the platform” isn’t an uncommon, or hard to understand, policy for private, for-profit platforms. It’s not the overt basis for the policy in question, but even if it was the covert interest, it wouldn’t be unusual.

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Re:Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-f... by imgabe on Friday April 16, 2021 @08:43PM (#26840635)
The fences are for the cattle, not for the rancher.
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