Meta also blocked the accounts of Bollywood movie stars, a slew of famous cricket players, and social media influencers who posted “anti-national content.” www.usermag.co/p/meta-bans-... top @techmeme.com - ThreadSky

taylorlorenz.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Meta also blocked the accounts of Bollywood movie stars, a slew of famous cricket players, and social media influencers who posted “anti-national content.” https://www.usermag.co/p/meta-bans-largest-muslim-news-page-in-india-muslim-news-bjp top @techmeme.com

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500mani2500.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is the Western Values of freedom of Speech #USA has been spreading in the east for the past 50 years

Well done 👍

sheepflame.bsky.social•4 days ago

Modhi is risking unconscionably many lives attacking a nuclear superpower (MARVEL fandom - our boy Fawad Khan was in Ms Marvel).

taylorlorenz.bsky.social•4 days ago

Last year, Meta approved political ads in India containing slurs against Muslims and calls to murder Muslims like “let’s burn this vermin” and “Hindu blood is spilling, these invaders must be burned."

taylorlorenz.bsky.social•4 days ago

Meta's close relationship to Modi's BJP party has helped the government seize more power. In 2022, it was revealed that Meta charged the BJP lower rates for political advertisements compared to other competing political parties, giving them a signifiant edge in the election cycle.

taylorlorenz.bsky.social•4 days ago

Ankhi Das, Facebook's former policy director for India and South and Central Asia who had close ties to the BJP, called Muslims in India a "degenerate community".

taylorlorenz.bsky.social•4 days ago

Meta has delayed removing accounts spreading violent disinformation targeting journalists in Kashmir. On Tuesday, Indian authorities arrested Hilal Mir, a well known and respected Kashmiri journalist and seized his laptop and phone.

taylorlorenz.bsky.social•4 days ago

These crackdowns are part of a broader pattern of speech suppression in India, where journalists, especially from Muslim communities, face escalating risks for reporting on sensitive political issues.

darrenschemmer.bsky.social•4 days ago

FB has been censoring all news media in Canada for years.

bkelsey91.bsky.social•4 days ago

Andy Stone back to genociding

ccherioli.bsky.social•4 days ago

Ge is such a fucking swine.

a-blueberry-cake.bsky.social•4 days ago

When a private corporation owns what is de facto the public square, thats a problem.
They can control the narrative as they see fit, using algorithms and outright bans.

The free speech arena should be kept at a safe distance from both national governments and capital

tambria.bsky.social•4 days ago

I saw some maga anti islam rhetoric page on a news reader just a bit ago

kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social•4 days ago

They're consolidating information in big reservoirs so that there's only one tap they have to shut off.

cjwilkinson.bsky.social•4 days ago

That is so despicable! Absolutely grotesque.

tauriq.bsky.social•4 days ago

Jesus

ssskullly.bsky.social•4 days ago

Don’t you love when “Free Speech Absolutism” is so prominently on display? 😂 Seems like every day that goes by they say or do something to show that all their talk of free-speech only applies to the comments of bigoted trolls on social media.

emcsull.bsky.social•4 days ago

well of course they are

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