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Re:Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-f... by dragonwriter on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:21PM (#26840101)
> The identity of house buyers is a matter of public record.

That…has no bearing on whether sharing it violates Facebook policy on “privacy and personal information”. What would have a bearing would be citing the language of the policy and showing how the action was inconsistent with it, and I suspect that is not happening because the action is, in fact, consistent with the policy.

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Re:Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-f... by Alupis on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:26PM (#26840147)
It's difficult to see this as anything other than a selectively enforced policy, which seems to be applied in a very lop-sided politically-motivated way.

Whether it's a policy of Facebook's or not is completely irrelevant. If they do not enforce this policy consistently, it opens them to accusations of political bias... which is what we have here.

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Re:Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-f... by dragonwriter on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:59PM (#26840363)
> It's difficult to see this as anything other than a selectively enforced policy

I have seen no presentation of acts similarly situated with respect to the policy which have been treated differently. What is the basis for the claim of selectivity?

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Re:Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-f... by ibeckermayer on Friday April 16, 2021 @08:13PM (#26840442)
The OP that you’re replying under gives one...
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Re:Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-f... by rscoots on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:35PM (#26840205)
Yes, facebook is known for its strong stances regarding "privacy and personal information"

What's glaring is that there's not even a veneer of consistency in this decision. Will they now be going back and censoring all articles that could lead to someone's residence? All future articles?

Of course they won't. They're content to be self-evidently biased on this point. As a liberal this troubles me.

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Re:Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-f... by rayiner on Saturday April 17, 2021 @09:13AM (#26843997)
Facebook will happily let you share articles about Kimberly Guilfoyle’s new mansion: https://www.facebook.com/KHOU11/posts/10161394155724062. Just to pick literally the first example that came to mind.
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