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Facebook employees stage virtual walkout in protest of company’s stance

submitted by pseudo+(OP) on 2020-06-01 19:22:15 | 96 points 80 comments
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13. y-c-o-+zb[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-06-01 20:20:42
>>mc32+28
Facebook has already set a standard for what it deems as approved speech: https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/credible_violenc...

See this section

> Do not post:

> Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s)

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30. dang+Gg[view] [source] 2020-06-01 20:47:27
>>pseudo+(OP)
Url changed from https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/01/facebook-employees-stage-v..., which points to this.
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78. frabbi+BZ[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-06-02 01:52:04
>>metalg+mh
Do you not understand that these non-approved views, for the most part, come from actual nazis?

Facebook has been more than happy to censor Palestinian activists at the behest of the Israeli government.

https://theintercept.com/2017/12/30/facebook-says-it-is-dele...

Handing over control of what we read, see and hear to a private company that acts as judge and jury should obviously concern anyone that can imagine situations in which it would be better to hear things that powerful actors do not want you to hear. Existing legal frameworks are already problematic ( there are many obscenity, blasphemy, sexuality-related examples you can find in recent history), but at least they require some sort of legal process with some sort of public input.

It would be ironic if your cheerleading for censorship resulted in your _obvious_ hate speech against bootlicking nazis being taken down during the second Trump term using the mechanisms you did your own part in establishing.

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