I, personally, think it was artful how the russian-insider.com/en so skillfully spun this article as pseudo-American censorship of Ukranian-Russian speech to the numb-minded skim/headline reader. When in reality, as the article plainly lays out, and to echo Komachi's sentiments, FB doesn't personally block anyone's page (or nearly anyone/anything). FB relies on their users to self-moderate the content that they profit off of. Also pointed out in the article, the ban-stick ninjas were "Ukrainian trolls" (one man's troll is another man's propagandist, uh, I mean publicist) hailing from, obviously, a different political background. What we see here is the first signs of singularity. Before long, these propaganda articles will be algorithmically written, automatically published, and will start to interact with each in ways we could never have predicted resulting in outcomes outside of the scope of our imaginations. Back in reality-land though, I don't FB often... but when I do, I https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/ Three Freedom Fighter, aka another man's terrorist On Tue, 03 Nov 2015 01:24:18 +0000 Anton Nesterov <komachi@openmailbox.org> wrote:
I don't think it was ordered by Facebook leadership or something like that. The truth is that FB has pretty flawed mechanism of blocking, so any page that received many abuses from FB users will be banned for some time without any action from FB mods. Both pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian pages were banned many times this way, including ones with verified accounts. Here is some The Guardian report on blocking Russian opposition activists and Ukrainian bloggers pages, for example http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/17/facebook-pro-kremlin-attacks-ru... So there is no conspiracy, just a lot of users abusing FB's abuse mechanism and FB doing nothing with that.
But FB really censored an event page of opposition rally in Russia following Russian request http://mashable.com/2014/12/22/facebook-blocks-opposition-rally-page-russia/
Zenaan Harkness:
http://russia-insider.com/en/zakharchenkos-new-facebook-page-blocked/ri10875
Nothing new to cp-ers I guess - I remember about 7 years ago a video/ slide presentation that circulated - on facebook no less, showing the leadership of FB was mostly ex-CIA, ex-NSA. (Yes, I carefully look out from my brown paper bag - I did log in to facebook for a few weeks.) Z