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Facebook bans QAnon across its platforms
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Took too long--and only because he wanted to curry favor with Trump to keep antitrust law at bay, not "freedom of expression".
I'd love to hope that this will cripple the whole "movement", but at this point I'm skeptical.
I'd love to hope that this will cripple the whole "movement", but at this point I'm skeptical.
Lol. Looking forward to them walking it back now we will have actual Qanon politicians in congress and thus real pressure to keep the bullshit around.
Drown in piss, Zuck
Drown in piss, Zuck
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The damage is done and it was done deliberately.
But this makes me think that Facebook is expecting a Trump loss and it wants to avoid prosecution for spreading enemy propaganda and misinformation to the American people.
But this makes me think that Facebook is expecting a Trump loss and it wants to avoid prosecution for spreading enemy propaganda and misinformation to the American people.
From Facebook's press release:
An Update to How We Address Movements and Organizations Tied to Violence | Meta
Taking action against Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts tied to QAnon, offline anarchist groups that support violent acts amidst protests, and US-based militia organizations.
about.fb.com
Lol who are they kidding. Fuck Facebook and fuck Zuckerberg. Regulate the shit out of social media please. If they didn't need regulation this would have happened years ago.
Section 230 scaring social platforms into having to at least not support the right wing for clicks. If they were smart they would be actively fighting against it, but this is good and also disappointing that it took so long and is the bare minimum of what they should be doing.
This is a good thing. Good possibility for big downstream effects. Facebook has been a key tool for the acceleration of authoritarianism, and deplatforming Qanon this close to the election could be fairly massive.
Accessibility and ease of use are a massive part of why FB is so successful with Boomers, and alternatives for mass-scale organization have been generally unsuccessful.
Accessibility and ease of use are a massive part of why FB is so successful with Boomers, and alternatives for mass-scale organization have been generally unsuccessful.
Cool.
Too bad allowing it to continue for so long has already caused irreparable damage and allowed ridiculous consipiracy theories to fester and grow at an alarming rate.
Too bad allowing it to continue for so long has already caused irreparable damage and allowed ridiculous consipiracy theories to fester and grow at an alarming rate.
It's not really the same thing. The appeal for groups like this to be on Facebook or Twitter is that it allows them to loop in people who previously had no idea about it. Having their equivalent to a Facebook or Twitter is just an echo chamber where they're unable to recruit new people.
Until this stuff is purged from every functioning social media platform, people aren't safe.
This shit and every single vector for conspiracist disinformation - MLMs, flat earth, plandemic Bill Gates NWO corona 5g foolishness, etc - needs to be banished to the most backwater irrelevant Internet a la the 90s, trapped in spam e-mail forwards and on unindexed Wix pages where people get no audience and no money. It's gotta go, straight up.
No Youtube, no Reddit, no IG, no Tiktok, no Twitch, no FB live streams, nothing. Keep that shit off the next-gen social media and alt-social media too.
This shit and every single vector for conspiracist disinformation - MLMs, flat earth, plandemic Bill Gates NWO corona 5g foolishness, etc - needs to be banished to the most backwater irrelevant Internet a la the 90s, trapped in spam e-mail forwards and on unindexed Wix pages where people get no audience and no money. It's gotta go, straight up.
No Youtube, no Reddit, no IG, no Tiktok, no Twitch, no FB live streams, nothing. Keep that shit off the next-gen social media and alt-social media too.
anecdotal evidence but I spend far too much time on Twitter and I've seen much less of their bullshit since they started banning them.
This is fucking late, of course, but very welcome.
They will probably just rebrand, but better to do this now than after the election.
Still, this likely shows that Zuck knows the Dems will be in control and is doing this to prevent very necessary government oversight.
They will probably just rebrand, but better to do this now than after the election.
Still, this likely shows that Zuck knows the Dems will be in control and is doing this to prevent very necessary government oversight.
It's never too late to deplatform hate imo. This will be effective especially when other companies follow suit. Sure there will be the anti-semitic clap back because it's Zuckerberg but overall this will damage them greatly. Milo and Alex Jones are nothings now so this shit works.
This may actually be some very important messaging regarding how Facebook believes the upcoming election will go. If Facebook believed Trump was going to win, it's difficult to imagine taking this action considering how vocal Trump is against platforms that he believes "censors" his base.
So why do this? Biden has previously threatened to revoke the law that protects Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms from lawsuits based on the content posted therein. It's called Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. In other words, if a white supremacist group on Facebook carries out an act discussed on their group page, Facebook could be found liable.
Facebook may be taking action to show that it can self-regulate and that revoking 230 may not be necessary.
So why do this? Biden has previously threatened to revoke the law that protects Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms from lawsuits based on the content posted therein. It's called Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. In other words, if a white supremacist group on Facebook carries out an act discussed on their group page, Facebook could be found liable.
Facebook may be taking action to show that it can self-regulate and that revoking 230 may not be necessary.
Yup. Too fucking late, and they've already infected a movement that will continue to spread their dangerous horseshit.
When has Biden talked about this? Trump and the Republicans are currently wielding this specific threat - they even wrote up an executive order about it to waste paper on.
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Joe Biden wants to revoke Section 230
The law is a foundational part of the internet as we know it
www.theverge.com
Finally took long enough. It won't fix the problems it made but at least it'll stop it growing as fast
Doubtful IMO. I think Facebook is more concerned about antitrust issues.
Section 230 going away is mostly saber rattling from Republicans and pro surveillance Dems. It's probably not going anywhere as it'd kill all companies that host user generated content that are based in the US.
Actually, it's interesting. Because Trump himself tweeted today about wanting to revoke that same law, I believe.
Of course, in Trump's case, it's anyone's guess if he even knows what the thing even does or why exactly he tweeted that or whatever.
But yeah, with Trump also threatening that... It pretty much leaves them no choice but to do stuff like this either way, if I'm understanding right.