I'm out. Facebook is headed to the bin marked history, where it can join Twitter, that's been there for a year already, and Instagram that got dumped today.
So in Zuck's own words, NOT censoring guys planning harassment, rapes, and murder is the right thing to do?
I hope every single victim of social networks, starting with the parents of harassed children, start suing their arses into oblivion.
The measure of a person is found in the decisions they make for the greater good. Zuckerberg is a complete loser by this measure. He is only concerned with his money and himself. He is now a propaganda arm for the Mump regime.
Prerequisite for endorsement from the incoming administration. Just a little gift from one to say thank you to the other. "Goodnight and good luck." Edward E Murrow
Why people are still on Facebook is totally beyond me. Being on FB is like being admitted to a perverse reverse asylum, which is designed to make you mad instead of curing you. Get out! Get out before they fuck with your brain!
What fact checkers?
Moderation has no understanding of humor & show up weeks/months after the fact to justify upholding "community standards" which they are unable to define
Well nothing ever happened when you reported stuff anyway. Fake profiles, spam, scams, harmful false information, all reports came back as "do not go against community guidelines". I'm sure even the new AI bots will be peddling as much scams and false information as the human users.
It's just another sham social network that refuses to accept responsibility for nonsense and misinformation to manipulate the world and exonerate themselves in the process.
Info robbing scum bags
Glad I left them after discovering all their lies.
I think most people now understand fact-checking; I mean, iplayer and YouTube is stuffed with videos on how to spot fake news. The only people worried about this decision are those who believe everyone but them are morons.
Shameful, but at the same time, who uses Facebook any more? (I know, regrettably too many people, but at the same time, Zuckerberg's pandering to the new wave reeks of desperation for relevance)
I have narrowed my Facebook feed to only friends (who I personally have met) and groups that pertain to non-political information about the area where I live. So I don't expect this to matter.
Meta had an opportunity to totally own the public space when Elmo shit the bed with twitter, now Zuck is going to out-idiot Elonia by making sure everyone who’s not a fascist will abandon meta too.
It’s about many things. Not just control of speech, but rewriting history, intentionally dumbing down the population to control them, constant (probably fake) war, outrage farming, a cult of personality, and so on.
It's also in a world where facts are what the Great Leader decides at that moment in time it is, and where books are relinquished to "memory holes", as they could challenge those momentary facts.
It's about a society that's not allowed to think for itself anymore...
I already read it and it's also about this. So it seems you're good that the censorship has been removed. That also helps with many of the issues you named there albeit not all of them are relevant.
Freedom of speech is not an absolute freedom to say whatever you want, it comes with some important boundaries, especially once your freedom starts to conflict with others.
Also, freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom to tell lies and sell them as facts.
If a newspaper did what Facebook is doing it’d be fined or shut down. As a digital publisher Facebook and Meta should be pursued for pushing dangerous lies without conscience in order to make money
Time to ditch Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Amazon. Enough hand wringing. These 3 men wield insane amount of power - they’re unelected. Nothing in human history comes close. Time to stop them.
He's jealous. Musk is getting all the headlines. Expect far right nutjobs the world over to come with their begging bowls. In the UK, Farage, Badenoch are likely to be "out brownnosing" each other in their desire for the big bucks. NF will, most likely, get back with "hero" Musk before much longer.
It's also very boring. Less people bother to post, it's only reason is to connect with people you know. But even that is almost dead and pointless, there are other means.
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I hope every single victim of social networks, starting with the parents of harassed children, start suing their arses into oblivion.
Moderation has no understanding of humor & show up weeks/months after the fact to justify upholding "community standards" which they are unable to define
Info robbing scum bags
Glad I left them after discovering all their lies.
I don't miss it so far.
(No he never was & like a limp flag will, he'll blow whichever way the political wins blow)
But, I shall now be making a start.
#MySpace
Wouldn’t want to disagree with Dear Leader, it isn’t safe.
Well worth reading.
It's about a society that's not allowed to think for itself anymore...
Feels awfully familiar...
Conveniently the two way view screens are now portable too, because technology marches on!
Also, freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom to tell lies and sell them as facts.
TL;DR - overwhelming people with nonsense makes them stop seeking the truth and just say what they think their peers want to hear.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
MARK
The removal of these checks can't do anything for accountability. Entering dangerous times