So, a government organisation is openly telling Facebook how to moderate speech now, and they're complying? I know Facebook's a private company, so they don't have to uphold the 1st amendment, I'm just wondering how far do we have to go down this rabbit hole before people wake up.
Exactly. This is government censorship, they're just using the facade of Facebook to do it. COINTELPRO is a good read, the FBI is untrustworthy and works against American interests when it comes to foreign and domestic politics and political organizing (please notice the specifics of this, I am not saying FBI is untrustworthy in all aspects).
Which gov't org TOLD them how to moderate? All I really saw was the FBI alerted them to some suspicious activity linked to foreign entities, which FB investigated and agreed that the acct's violated FB's policies and so they removed them. Did I miss something?
The most interesting thing about that article to me was discovering FB uses WordPress to publish them.
If the government is telling Facebook how to moderate their platform, wouldn't that be a violation of the 1rst amendment? Since it would be the government actively trying to restrict what someone else can say?
People are waking up, but what they're waking up to is the fact that platforms like Facebook have been used to spread propaganda that villainizes marginalized communities. This has spurred hate crimes and fanned the flames of genocide. Facebook is directly implicated in the purge of Rohingya muslims in Myanmar.
