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Re:Facebook says it was wrong to ban Canadian MP’s Christmas... by avhon1 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:43PM (#29666241)
What makes you think annoyingnoob didn't read the article? The MP in the article, Mark Strahl, is quoted referring to this as "a glaring example of censorship", and annoyingnoob appears to be saying that "censorship" is not the right framework in which to criticize Facebook's actions.
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Re:Facebook says it was wrong to ban Canadian MP’s Christmas... by JacobThreeThree on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:54PM (#29666349)
If it's a mistake that Facebook reversed, it's not censorship.
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Re:Facebook says it was wrong to ban Canadian MP’s Christmas... by smsm42 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @04:16PM (#29666575)
One does not exclude the other. FB tried to censor him, but turned out it wasn't what they wanted to censor, so they removed the censorship. That happened because their censorship mechanisms are highly automated and very badly trained, so they have a huge amount of false positives.
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