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Anyone else remember when the Bush administration considered people who read Linux Journal to be targeted for extra surveillance because they labelled Linux Journal an extremist forum for merely discussing the existence of Tor and Tails?
Further, anyone else remember when the Bush admin pushed Total Information Awareness, a program that was collecting the kind of information on US citizens that those same citizens give away freely to Facebook without needing to be surveilled?
Linux ban on discussing Facebook.
Linux ban on discussing
You going to finish that sentence buddy?
yes
the real malware is facebook
So what’s going on here? Is this related to the new US administration? Or Microsoft and Meta exchanging money to silence the competition? Genuinely confused, but it seems fairly important whatever the motivations.
Probably a little of all of the above.
Folks that run OSs other than Windows and Mac are usually not passive sheep. If you want folks to just sit back and ignore what is going on you probably don’t want agitators in the mix.
maybe it’s the same reason some banks don’t work on rooted android phones: they want to prevent you to control how your system works bc they count on being able to extract as much information as possible from your computer usage without your consent
There’s also the issue that some android and iOS features don’t work on rooted, like integrity check. We implemented it to prevent some malicious actors spamming our sms services, requiring them to use actual phones to access the service.
In the end we went with a captcha because we didn’t want to exclude rooters but I can see it being a choice not all companies make.
The party of free speech everyone!
https://jessica.substack.com/p/instagram-is-censoring-abortion-pill
No fucking way, this is absurd.
been noticing this too in linux fb groups i am in. peoples’ posts linking distrowatch are getting banned.
Just ban meta and x on the whole fucking site
I reckon, given the extent of voluntary submission to constant surveilance from corporations and the continued march deeper into oligarchy, that it’s only a matter of time until platforms that aren’t explicitly anti-privacy are going to be reframed as extremist and dangerous as a part of the global political conversation. Perhaps this will end up being the leading edge of that.
I already VPN 99% of my traffic out of the country and use non-US services wherever I can. When Trump was first elected I started wondering if they’re going to start a China-style firewall out of the country and it’s been in the back of my mind since.
Meanwhile
What a fucking dystopia you live in… Saddening…
Is there another example of this happening in Facebook aside for the openKylin post? I looked around and every article is only talking about this specific DistroWatch issue.
I bet they banned distrowatch.com, use https://distrowatch.org/ instead. Sadly they give up distrowat.ch
I just tested it out. Nothing so far
Discussing a specific linux distribution is not “discussing linux”.
Linking to a post on another website about a linux distribution isn’t either.
Should have phrased it differently: Banning a post on a specific linux distribution is not a “ban on discussing linux” in general.
Whatever daddy faceberg says, bootlicker
The linked article has a screenshot with a link to a post about openKylin getting removed. OP title is “Facebook ban on discussing Linux?” including the question mark. I don’t think it is accurate. At the same time I’m not defending Facebook in any way.
You defending corpo censorship and also title has a question mark either way.
If you didn’t mean to come off as bootlicker, then you need to work on that tone, “akshually”
“Akshually”, so do you. You had a chance to discuss and inform, and instead you went straight to “bootlicker”.
Do you think they’re going to take any notice of whatever you say from here on?
I am not communicating to “them”
I am making record of bootlicker behavior for other readers to correct me or to take notice.
Consider yourself corrected then. I’ve skimmed your comment history. Your go-to insult is “bootlicker” or alternatively, a simple clown emoji. In your comments you seem to provide very little context as to why you think that, it’s just, “I deem you to be a BOOTLICKER! Next!”
So maybe a little guidance for you:
The very, very, first thing you do when dealing with perceived propaganda - be it on mainstream media, online, or wherever - is to remove all the emotion and insults and see what’s left. You know what I see when I parse your comments like that? Very little.
Thus I conclude you have nothing of importance to say, and you become background noise that gets tuned out.
Actually your comments do have some small value. I check your bootlicker-comment-score and if it’s greater than 5, I know the community you posted in isn’t worth my time.
Thank you for your service
