I see incredibly violent and bigoted content all the time on Meta platforms and always report it. Rarely does anything get taken down. But feminism bad I suppose.
That was last week
“Such speech may be offensive to many, but it is not Meta’s role to police offensiveness,” the company added.
Yet “social topics” they don’t agree with are banned lol
Also
they were able to earn money on their posts through the platform’s “Content Monetization” program — which is invitation-only.
I’m actually glad it’s invitation-only because there are some subjects on which I could write great informative content that would likely have great engagement from the people interested in those niches, but this way I’m not even tempted to log in and start posting lol
Nazi? Fine. Hate? No problem. Scams? That’s free speech.
Women? Oh it’s time to do something!
Racism? Yeah, that’s cool.
Wishing racists were dead? That’s a banning.
feminism is a contradiction to toxic manosphere thats why, and meta needs a conservative voting base to stay alive.
Yet half of the ads on Mega platforms are literal scams
I wonder if they would allow TERF ads. Or is that still too feminist for them?
thankfully TERFs are never about the F part, they’re mostly just TERs.
Trans-Exclusionary Radicals
They only react with cis isomeric alkenes?
lol.
I’m down with trying all kinds of chemicals and see what reacts and what doesn’t.
I’m sure they would, until the terfs are no longer useful to them
Once again, Zuck the suck.
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The CIA via its VC fund InQTel is the architect of today’s information landscape. All of this is very much on purpose.
what did you read to learn this? i wanna read it too
It’s the same company behind the Pokémon Go app that was actually a cover by the CIA to map entire places around the world.
Honestly lots of different things. A good start would be https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-project-1636592238
This is about how Oracle was initially a CIA project headed by Ellison.
It is a good thing.
Haha I think so too but Lemmy won’t agree. :)
Regulating Meta which is truly accountable nowhere is like trying to find a good place to store radioactive waste for tens of thousands of years. Everyone outside the US should just ban them.
Get out of here with your pro-oil propaganda.
Are you drunk? Solar and wind is better now and eventually fusion will be.
Meta wants to be the global town square, but apparently Virginia Woolf and feminism are too dangerous for its ad system. Meanwhile the company keeps asking us to trust its algorithms with billions of people’s speech. If Meta can’t distinguish feminist literature from prohibited content, maybe it shouldn’t be the internet’s self appointed censor.
While allowing scam and porn ads on there that harm millions of people
It’s amazing how blantly they allow scam ads. I reported ads for stolen credit cards and counterfeit money and meta closed my reports stating there was nothing wrong with the ads. What is this? The dark web?
They’re directly incentivized to allow scams, since over 10% of their total revenue comes from scams
Honestly, I think the dark web is a safer concept than X or Meta. The legitimacy of society’s most powerful people is far more insidious than backstreet markets and courtesans: they don’t make laws or support evil institutions across entire nations, nor able to leverage them as a club.
The ordinary pickpocket just wants money. A wealthy elite considers other humans to be decorative, to be used and disposed of.
It’s a catastrophe in double standards.
No one should be the World Wide Web’s self appointed censor!
If Meta can’t distinguish feminist literature from prohibited content,
You misunderstand… Feminist literature is the prohibited content. I’m not making a joke here. That’s literally their policy!
“Stop being political!” say the people running the manufactured hate machine.
“stop saying things we dont like” is what they mean
*brainwashing machine
Meanwhile, literal scams and porn:
CP as well.
Wall to wall gambling ads
Meanwhile they promote misogynistic vitriol that enables violence against women.
Fuck Meta. They’re a terrorist organization and should be treated as much.
The production in question is an adaptation of “A Room of One’s Own,” a book by the legendary English author and feminist Virginia Woolf. According to the Teatre Raval, planned promotional posts about the show were blocked on both Instagram and Facebook, likely by an automated content moderation system.
After reaching out to Meta about why the promo campaign had been stomped out, the company replied that “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system,” and therefore rejected.
According to the Guardian, the company then cryptically recommended the Raval remove “key words” related to social activism, so the promo campaign can pass the automated censor — though the company failed to explain what, exactly, its content system objected to.
”We don’t know if the publicity has been rejected because of the name of Virginia Woolf or because of the word feminism, or both,” Clara Sanchis, who stars in the one-woman show told the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, per the Guardian, which translated the comments.
“In any case, it’s a way of erasing from the map advances that have taken centuries to achieve,” Sanchis continued. “We have given social media unlimited power and every day we can see how dangerous this is. It’s bias and manipulation.”
It’s not going to stop at Meta just like it did not stop at Roe v Wade being overturned.
I’m sick of men telling me that I’m overreacting about these issues.
There is no over-reaction to actual censorship.
Absolutely. It’s not just the censorship though - it’s the attack on women’s rights that I’m referencing.
I’m sick of men telling me that I’m overreacting about these issues.
The ones telling you that you’re over reacting are the ones who have a vested interest in your downfall
I don’t take that shit from no man. They can think whatever the fuck that want of me. I don’t need anyone let alone a fucking little bitch of a man acting as if he’s better than me.
Hell yes.
I’m going to keep telling men that they’re wrong as long as they want to tell me I’m overreacting. I’m not scared of doing so.
I’m just sick of it.
And what is really gross is that they will place it at the level of social/corporate discourse. Continuing the facade that they are a “publisher” and not town square.
Meaning there will be no legal option to prevent groups like meta/FB and Twitter from throttling down real social issues. While turning the volume up on “state approved rebellion”.
The United States and its most powerful corporations now fully and openly embrace fascism. Revolution is our only hope now, there is no one coming to save us but ourselves. Join your local socialist group and start training now. Don’t wait for the mass arrests to begin.
It is always that deep.
Yepppp, where meta goes rightwards other social media sites follow. And many of them are run by misogynists
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STOP.
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USING.
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FACEBOOK.
- Promote
- Viable
- Alternatives
I stopped using Facebook years ago.
Before there were viable alternatives.
The idea that you need Facebook because there aren’t significant alternatives is just not true.
No alternative is viable if no one uses it.
The network effect is real, and it’s what lets these fascism pushers stay top of mind at all times.
The problem is that this isn’t like Microsoft Office > LibreOffice/OnlyOffice/whatever. You’re not on Facebook for Facebook, you’re on Facebook for the people there. It’s why I have a lot of issues getting off of YouTube. I’m not on YouTube because their interface is nice, I’m on YouTube because the people I want to watch don’t post shit elsewhere. It’s a cycle, to get users we need stuff, and for stuff we need creators, and for creators we need users. When it comes to online platforms we don’t need an alternative to YouTube, we need an alternative to Markiplier, which is harder to come up with.
If you can get your friends, and family onto Friendica that would help quite a bit. The problem is that using a new server is hard for the end user (I would know, all of my fediverse presence is on servers I host), and telling someone “Use Friendica” is like telling someone to “Use email”. Get a Friendica/Mastodon/Whatever server, and keep it in your back pocket. Give them a link to that server, not to Friendica/Mastodon/Whatever as a whole.
Admittedly I don’t know how hard it is to stop using Facebook because I stopped using Facebook right after they took away the chronological timeline, and stopped using Messenger a few years ago. But spending some time to get a timeline together that you can boost will help any new users you recruit. Crucially, to promote viable alternatives, you need to be part of the viable alternatives, otherwise you’re just someone telling someone to jump into something new with 0 guidance, which is a good way to have them leave.
to get users we need stuff, and for stuff we need creators, and for creators we need users
Don’t know. When YouTube started, there were creators, but no users and no way to monetize. Problem is, we are so used to the high production value on YouTube, where people can (and more often than not hope to) make money, so we don’t give the poor production value videos a chance anymore. But we watched that 140p video back then, because there was nothing else and it was interesting.
The viable alternative is nothing.
Because no one gives a shit about you (general you, not specific at BitsAndBites), or about what you say. You use it cause you’re addicted to performing for people you dont even talk to or like, because no one can actually maintain hundreds, if not thousands of connections like you collect on facebook, most of whom don’t even give a shit about you. its just a mutual masturbation session, only instead of jerking each others dicks off, your jerking eachother off with pointless likes.
All social media is, is a means of generating profit from mental illness, and manufacturing mental illness for profit.
You use it cause ~you’re addicted to performing for people you dont even talk to or like~ it’s the only place to get and share updates from your extended family
Holy shit send them a text ask them how they’re doing, maybe even a phone call. You don’t have to choose to give mark zuckerberg a monopoly on your family’s stories and memories.
Facebook to Friendica
Twitter/Threads to Mastodon/Euclavd
Instagram to Pixelfed/Vernissage
Tiktok to Loops
YouTube to PeerTube
Anything else?
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Whatsapp to Signal/Delta Chat/Cwtch/Briar
Reddit to Lemmy/Piefed/Pylova
Loops
I wish every content creator would post on both TikTok AND Loops, because Loops could definitely replace TikTok. It has a really solid basis and a lot of potential(although I wish I didn’t have to pause before scrolling off of a video).
I am really glad to see someone mention Loops, and if I could choose to view someone’s content on Loops instead of TikTok, I would.
Edit: Oh, and https://loops.video/ if anyone is wondering what we’re talking about.
Reddit to Lemmy / PieFed / PyLova
Now do whatsapp, the default messaging platform for the majority of the world.
Signal or threema i got both never used WhatsApp ever. There’s also sms, samsung and apple chat which are about as secure as WhatsApp is
Now which of those is available worldwide?
There are parts of the world where you can get online and on Facebook/whatsapp without even having “internet”. If you pay for Internet, you get access to other websites as well.
Not one of those but XMPP (once upon a time called Jabber) is available worldwide.
So is Matrix.
How does WhatsApp work without Internet?
Some places you get internet, but you’re limited to 3-4 “basic” sites unless you pay for it. Facebook/Whatsapp is often one of those basic sites. Or was.
Facebook marketplace?
Believe it or not, Craigslist
Offer up, but it’s kinda same same, just without zuck.
“Let’s have tacos tonight.” “Nah Im not feeling tacos.” “OK let’s get Chinese food.” “Nah i don’t want Chinese food.” "…ok… let’s make soup. " “Nah I don’t want soup tonight.”
This made me thoughtful and laugh at the same time, thank you.
You’re right, of course. People prefer centralized platforms, and we “nerds” prefer decentralized ones.
There are no alternatives.
the problem is people are so addicted to it, at least in my province. They don’t want to hear about any alternative that would require the smallest effort. In the 80’s, Dead Kennedys made an album called “Give me convenience or give me death”. I took me decades to realize how accurate this title was for depicting the world we live in.
Big liZard in my back yard! Heh thanks I haven’t thought of them in a while
quick correction- that’s Dead Milkmen
Crap…wrong dead people. Got a vibe for weekend music now though. Thanks.
You don’t have to tell this to me. You have to tell this to my entire extended elderly family.
No, you have to tell them. And then not be on facebook for them to reach you there.
How do I tell them if I’m not on Facebook? That’s where they are.
Theyre somewhere on planet earth, you can choose not to give mark zuckerberg a monopoly on your family’s communications.
That’s not how monopolies work.
Wdym? You literally have one company you can use to connect to your family apparently. That’s a monopoly on your family communications.
And also Instagram and whatever other Zuck products are in your life. I’m happy they wasted so many billions of dollars setting of virtual Mii meetings lmao…
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Oh so they are capable of banning the ones they don’t like, just not the ones that are actively harmful and illegal?
Fuck off meta. Really wish more people would stop using their shit. Shun those who work for them while you are at it. You work for the nonce glasses company? Eww
“After reaching out to Meta about why the promo campaign had been stomped out, the company replied that “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system,” and therefore rejected.”
Wow.
not that i’m a meta fan, I fucking hate that company, but this swings both ways. Imagine your local coffee shop is boosting posts about traditional marriage and pro-life themes. They get blocked as well.
I just don’t go to that coffee shop. Problem solved. They can say whatever they want. If I don’t support it I don’t go. I don’t see how the coffee shop argument hold up. And if enough people hold the same views they close.
Meta however is too big to fail. Which gives them a free pass to pass their cancerous views onto society while knowing no matter how much the general public hates them and their shitty views they will continue to use the platform because their friends and family still use it. Enshittification. If my coffee shop enshittifies I tell them to pound sand.
good for you.
There are other options. Friendica? People have no boundaries. Society deserves what they get at this point.
There’s no way to get around “any mention of civil rights” though. That covers all humans.
They do pay “content creators” who have views on the opposite side of the political aisle and when caught paying far-right activists, they said:
“Such speech may be offensive to many, but it is not Meta’s role to police offensiveness,” the company added.
While PAYING to advertise a book with feminism as a theme is not OK. They’re clearly pushing an agenda.
wouldn’t doubt it
Maybe. This was an advertisement for a book that had those themes.
Personally, I don’t want either to be excluded.
We going to ban Churches from showing the cross next?
ya bro, we’re going to ban churches from showing crosses next. you got it.
God forbid you talk about social topics on SOCIAL media…
Sounds like you need some reeducation.
advertisements shouldn’t look like actual content, not like that stopped them before but ads really shouldn’t look like real content
