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Private entities have the right to decide what is or is not acceptable content on their platforms. Consumers also have the right to choose which services they want to use.
I encourage everyone to stop using anything involved with Meta. I personally have a list of Meta domains blocked on my home network.
If enough people did this, the problem would resolve itself.
This is why its important for us to retain the right to what Cory Doctorow calls "self-help".
Our right to access and modify things are being stripped away and that gives the platforms even more power!
Today, if you released a tool to bring your Facebook friend list to another platform you'd get sued into oblivion.
*in the usa
In other places content moderation for major platforms is mandatory as a way to protect free speech and reduce the spread of disinformation.
Although some consider this censorship, a free for all with a power imbalance is not a good thing for society
Only problem is that the echo chamber gets louder.
The people in the echo chamber seem to actually enjoy yelling at people outside of it, though. So it's not as enjoyable for them either.
The people I know are too addicted to quit. They need to leave for another platform like people did with x to blue sky… that’s the only way I see people getting out of the meta world.
Exactly. Not sure why people have this expectation that facebook is some kind of serious platform that should be held to some high journalistic standard
It was a website for rating girls. It's always been a joke website. People should be free to post whatever offensive and non-factual nonsense they want there (and its related subsidiaries)
If your entire life is so deeply entwined with facebook that you cant leave, and you demand that they only allow nice content, that's a YOU problem.
This is not a defense of facebook. This is me saying facebook is shit, it's ALWAYS been shit. Just walk away
Bingo, my friend!!! Shun Meta and all their 'products' completely and permanently.