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Re:Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson by pesus on Monday August 25, 2025 @04:52PM (#45018844)
I got a week long ban for calling someone out for being a Nazi. The person openly praising Hitler did not get banned at all. At the time I thought it was mere incompetence, but in hindsight, it seems more like intentional malice.
Re:Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson by bachmeier on Monday August 25, 2025 @04:58PM (#45018920)
Are you implying that being banned from Facebook is a bad thing?
Re:Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson by qualeed on Monday August 25, 2025 @05:42PM (#45019389)
I'm pretty sure they are implying that it might be a bad policy to not ban nazis.
Re:Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson by bryanrasmussen on Monday August 25, 2025 @05:48PM (#45019453)
even if you would think people should be happy about being banned, they always get annoyed

https://medium.com/luminasticity/facebook-deleted-my-account...

Re:Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson by pesus on Monday August 25, 2025 @06:57PM (#45020179)
Depends on the reason. I'm saying that banning someone for calling out a Nazi and not banning the Nazi is a bad thing.
Re:Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson by vkou on Monday August 25, 2025 @05:18PM (#45019157)
It's not intentional malice, it's just 2025 - an age where calling someone a fascist or a racist is worse than being one.

If that doesn't make a lick of sense to you - it's simple. The latter is an offense against a nebulous, undefined outgroup of people, while the former offends a particular person.

It's the same reason why someone can steal a dollar from a million people, but why you'd go to jail for punching the thief in the face.

Re:Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson by pesus on Monday August 25, 2025 @06:58PM (#45020188)
This was back around 2019 or so, but you're not wrong at all. Back then Zuckerburg et al at least pretended to be against hate speech. It's so much worse now.
Re:Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson by 2980672166760 on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @03:39AM (#45023451)
"Everyone I disagree with is a nazi"
Re:Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson by pesus on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @12:41PM (#45028984)
Did you miss the part of my 2 sentence comment where they openly praised Hitler? That makes someone a Nazi.
Re:Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson by vkou on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @01:02PM (#45029311)
I think they were aiming to provide a live demonstration of my postulate.
Re:Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson by rl3 on Monday August 25, 2025 @05:43PM (#45019408)
>The person openly praising Hitler did not get banned at all.

Content moderation at Meta is a joke now. I reported an account multiple times for hate speech. The account's photos were comprised entirely of racist caricatures of black people. Like absolutely vile, hateful shit.

Each time, I received a notification along the lines of: [paraphrasing] "We found that the account in question did not violate our community standards. Therefore, we did not take any action. Thanks for the report."

Yeah, OK. Gross.

Re:Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson by Tostino on Monday August 25, 2025 @07:08PM (#45020284)
I don't think I've ever gotten a response from a corporation other than "this totally obvious Nazi adjacent content seems fine to me".
Re:Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson by anthem2025 on Monday August 25, 2025 @09:16PM (#45021160)
Why would they restrict speech?

Your policies help to enable one genocide in Myanmar and suddenly people expect you to have standards.

Re:Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson by AceJohnny2 on Monday August 25, 2025 @04:54PM (#45018872)
"Shoot the messenger!"