Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson

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.

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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.

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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"

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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.

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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.

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