Facebook censorship

[Cubed]

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 at 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-russia
> 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
> > 
> 
>