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Re:Facebook Ban on Linux by BryanLunduke on Monday January 27, 2025 @02:56PM (#42844966)
No, Facebook is Not Censoring "Linux", Only "DistroWatch".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOdMTS6XVu4

Re:Facebook Ban on Linux by philipwhiuk on Monday January 27, 2025 @04:15PM (#42845715)
Nice job shilling your own content. If it's worth watching post it as Show HN.
Re:Facebook Ban on Linux by paulnpace on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:21PM (#42845192)
I'm not watching a 20 minute video on the topic, but there is a user in an HN comment[1] stating links to debian.org and qubes-os.org were removed by facebook.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42840143

Re:Facebook Ban on Linux by tored on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:43PM (#42845422)
Thus Facebook is not censoring Linux discussions or Linux content, what DistroWatch claimed, it blocks linking to what Facebook deems as malicious links (correctly or incorrectly), something a lot of software does these days.

This is what the yanks call "a complete nothing-burger".

Re:Facebook Ban on Linux by tombert on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:19PM (#42845181)
I don’t have the ability to watch 20 minutes of Bryan Lunduke and keep my lunch, so is there a tl;dr of this?

It’s still kind of dumb for them to block Distrowatch regardless. I guess it’s just a bit of automation that wasn’t tuned correctly?

ETA:

I just saw the username. lol.

Re:Facebook Ban on Linux by RIMR on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:25PM (#42845228)
Don't feel bad for insulting Bryan to his face. It's the correct response.
Re:Facebook Ban on Linux by tombert on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:26PM (#42845236)
I didn’t say I felt bad.
Re:Facebook Ban on Linux by dang on Monday January 27, 2025 @08:53PM (#42848059)
Re:Facebook Ban on Linux by loeg on Monday January 27, 2025 @07:32PM (#42847552)
It's a shame that this is one of the only accurate top-level comments and it's downvoted to hell.
Re:Facebook Ban on Linux by tombert on Monday January 27, 2025 @08:40PM (#42847980)
I think the complaint is that it's not really a "comment", so much as it's a link to Bryan's own 20 minute video talking about it. It comes off as an annoying bit of self-promotion.

Though I will admit that Bryan is just a deeply unlikable human who is generally under-informed-at-best on any given subject that he's talking about, so people might be looking at it more cynically than if someone else posted it.

Re:Facebook Ban on Linux by loeg on Monday January 27, 2025 @08:54PM (#42848064)
Fair enough.