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Anyone else remember when the Bush administration considered people who read Linux Journal to be targeted for extra surveillance because they labelled Linux Journal an extremist forum for merely discussing the existence of Tor and Tails?
Further, anyone else remember when the Bush admin pushed Total Information Awareness, a program that was collecting the kind of information on US citizens that those same citizens give away freely to Facebook without needing to be surveilled?
Linux ban on discussing Facebook.
Linux ban on discussing
You going to finish that sentence buddy?
yes
the real malware is facebook
So what's going on here? Is this related to the new US administration? Or Microsoft and Meta exchanging money to silence the competition? Genuinely confused, but it seems fairly important whatever the motivations.
Probably a little of all of the above.
Folks that run OSs other than Windows and Mac are usually not passive sheep. If you want folks to just sit back and ignore what is going on you probably don’t want agitators in the mix.
maybe it's the same reason some banks don't work on rooted android phones: they want to prevent you to control how your system works bc they count on being able to extract as much information as possible from your computer usage without your consent
There's also the issue that some android and iOS features don't work on rooted, like integrity check. We implemented it to prevent some malicious actors spamming our sms services, requiring them to use actual phones to access the service.
In the end we went with a captcha because we didn't want to exclude rooters but I can see it being a choice not all companies make.
The party of free speech everyone!
https://jessica.substack.com/p/instagram-is-censoring-abortion-pill
No fucking way, this is absurd.
been noticing this too in linux fb groups i am in. peoples' posts linking distrowatch are getting banned.
Just ban meta and x on the whole fucking site
I reckon, given the extent of voluntary submission to constant surveilance from corporations and the continued march deeper into oligarchy, that it's only a matter of time until platforms that aren't explicitly anti-privacy are going to be reframed as extremist and dangerous as a part of the global political conversation. Perhaps this will end up being the leading edge of that.
I already VPN 99% of my traffic out of the country and use non-US services wherever I can. When Trump was first elected I started wondering if they’re going to start a China-style firewall out of the country and it’s been in the back of my mind since.
Meanwhile
What a fucking dystopia you live in... Saddening...
Is there another example of this happening in Facebook aside for the openKylin post? I looked around and every article is only talking about this specific DistroWatch issue.
I bet they banned distrowatch.com, use https://distrowatch.org/ instead. Sadly they give up distrowat.ch
I just tested it out. Nothing so far