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Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by SV_BubbleTime on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:21PM (#28751578)
The story that a woman at Facebook doesn't think they're going far enough to control speech they hate and bad-thoughts?

I think Facebook is awful, but her primary complaint seemed to me that she lacked controls for what people like her, you know, the good people have access to prevent anyone else from seeing. That she was powerless to stop users from saying the wrong things. How was her motivation anything but a desire for more authoritarianism? She said she specifically took the job on the condition she could monitor and direct posts to prevent the wrong info from being online, that's the last type of person you want in that position, the one that wants it.

I expect that we're still pretending Facebook is "just a private business", despite it being unlike any in history and that the ties to government are completely benign.

I'm not saying she was wrong in any claim about internal discussions. But, if you can not imagine yourself being on the wrong side of someone like that, you have limited imagination.

Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by narrator on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:29PM (#28751670)
Facebook is surprisingly tolerant of controversial subjects. YouTube has gone scorched earth on millions of channels and deleted years of work of many people. Facebook was far more lenient and you could talk about non-official covid information for example where YouTube deleted anything that wasn't official narrative with extreme prejudice. Given how much bad stuff all over the world is happening to sacrifice freedom to get everyone to tow the official line on Covid that is complete science fiction level totalitarianism, I am sure Facebook made some very powerful and determined enemies with its more lenient stance. I was downvoted earlier for saying this was an intentional takedown and deleted my comment, but now I think this could be a full blown William Gibson Neuromancer Cyberpunk level corporate takedown attempt in progress!
Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? by commandlinefan on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:20PM (#28752213)
She said she wanted FB to do something to stop misinformation and hate speech but what we've seen from Reddit is that "are mRNA vaccines actually safe?" becomes misinformation and "we shouldn't perform elective life-altering surgery on pre-teen children" becomes hate speech. There's not much I applaud Facebook for, but not listening to this woman is one of the few I do.