Notices tagged with facebook, page 3

Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Mar-2021 12:52:23 EDT Hypolite Petovan

#introductions Better late than never, I'm Hypolite Petovan, this isn't my official name but it is my real name for all intents and purposes. I joined the #Fediverse on #Diaspora then #Friendica late 2016 after #Facebook froze my account for using this pseudonym for 10 years straight.

My social media policy is to read absolutely everything my follows post. As a result, I heavily curate my follow list that will never grow bigger than what it is now mainly for time constraints. Additionally, I don't automatically follow back and unfollowing isn't personal, your content just doesn't fit with my social media usage, no hard feelings.

I like liberally to signify I read, enjoyed or sympathize with a post without having anything meaningful to contribute further.

I also block liberally, users and whole instances alike, the world is too big and my time is too limited to give a second chance to bigots, racists, misogynists and transphobes (including TERFs). I host my own single-user node which makes any moderation decision easy.

My own editorial line is mainly about good-natured humor and social justice. Tone-wise, I do not mind aggressiveness but I do mind who it is targeted at. I do not tolerate edgy shitpost, and neither bad faith nor logical fallacies no matter how soft-spoken they are.

My personal interests revolve around #programming (mainly #PHP for #Friendica ), #videogames and recently #LEGO, but I'm curious about everything and have trouble specializing in anything and don't follow the latest news for any specific topic.

Hi! 👋

In conversation Friday, 19-Mar-2021 12:52:23 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Feb-2021 14:06:02 EST Hypolite Petovan

Just had another run in with someone that earnestly asked why #Friendica doesn't have the same amount of users as Facebook or Telegram, and then spouting random nonsense about how hobby (what Friendica is) and business (what Facebook and Telegram are) doesn't necessarily need to be separated, mentioning Elon Musk in the process.

My patience for someone wanting to make #Friendica into something it isn't and realistically can't be eventually ran out and I blocked them.

♲ @hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com: With each new #Facebook scandal like the recent WhatsApp-related one, the #Fediverse welcomes a wave of new users and admins. #Friendica gets its tiny share of the newly converted to decentralized social media. Some stick, most don't, but there's always this one guy (it's always a man) whose first few messages on GitHub are to angrily complain that Friendica isn't user-friendly enough and that it is spelling doom for a project they didn't know the day before and for the #Fediverse as a whole.

This has been going on ever since I joined the project in 2016, and we're still here. 🤷♂️

In conversation Tuesday, 23-Feb-2021 14:06:02 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
Ute Hauth (miradlo@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Feb-2021 14:23:03 EST Ute Hauth

♲ @a_watch@twitter.com: 👉 Vom Kanzleramt zu #Facebook: Die Büroleiterin von Digital-Staatsministerin Dorothee Bär u. Partnerin von Verkehrsminister Scheuer heuert als Lobbyistin bei Facebook an - und soll dort jetzt den Austausch mit polit. Entscheidungsträger:innen organisieren
www.handelsblatt.com/politik/d…

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Feb-2021 03:32:04 EST lnxw48a1

Another #WhatsApp user flees #Facebook data collection https://themue.dev/blog/2021/01/10/im-off-then/

#Signal
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  I'm off then
  
  The Facebook corporation was a thorn in my side early on with its handling of personal data for advertising purposes. On top of that, Facebook itself showed me how difficult it is to keep conversations in check. That’s why I deleted my Facebook account a while ago. It was the same with Instagram as another service of the Facebook group. As a messenger, I have been using WhatsApp for a long time.
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Jan-2021 13:28:49 EST lnxw48a1

"The post"{https://mst3k.interlinked.me/@Elizafox/105562613778968936} seemed to be a lot of fear-mongering, even more than the article itself.

(1) #Twitter has millions of users. There is no #ActivityPub nor #OStatus implementation in which an instance hosted on a $5/mo #DigitalOcean / #Linode / #Vultr #VPS could handle the volume of a seamless connection with #Twitter. If they adopted AP OStatus, #Diaspora, or any other current open federation protocol, instances that didn't use firewall blocking would topple once the two userbases had sufficient interconnections (within a few hours or a few days after they started federating).

(2) Twitter's business model is to push ads disguised as tweets. If their users could escape those and still interact with all the same contacts, they would. I'm certain that Twitter's management know this. They also turn all links into tracking links, and sell access to media (images, video, audio) uploads of important news events to news organizations.

(3) Most Fediverse instances are financed out of the admin's pocket. Some have financial contributors, but nothing like Twitter's revenue. As the largest and best-financed instance, they would immediately have to start implementing modifications to make AP or other existing federation protocols useful to them, and those modifications would (as Mastodon's currently do) become unofficially mandatory in order to be compatible.

(4) This isn't the first time that Twitter has considered federation, though this may be the first time they openly discussed it. Back when Identica was still a happening place (during Twitter's fail-whale days), Twitter considered federating. They didn't do it then, and I honestly do not believe they will do it now.

(5) I'd say that Twitter's #BlueSky initiative is more meant to try to get bidirectional connections across #Facebook's moat and wall than it is to surround Twitter with a cloud of #Fediverse instances.

In conversation Saturday, 16-Jan-2021 13:28:49 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Jan-2021 16:49:37 EST Hypolite Petovan

With each new #Facebook scandal like the recent WhatsApp-related one, the #Fediverse welcomes a wave of new users and admins. #Friendica gets its tiny share of the newly converted to decentralized social media. Some stick, most don't, but there's always this one guy (it's always a man) whose first few messages on GitHub are to angrily complain that Friendica isn't user-friendly enough and that it is spelling doom for a project they didn't know the day before and for the #Fediverse as a whole.

This has been going on ever since I joined the project in 2016, and we're still here. 🤷♂️

In conversation Friday, 15-Jan-2021 16:49:37 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Jan-2021 12:36:38 EST lnxw48a1

https://social.foxfam.club/objects/08cee94e-9175-480d-abab-c3b6bb386127 ( https://nu.federati.net/url/279289 )

#Facebook bans Ron Paul for criticizing censorship, then pretends it was a mistake when the media noticed.

Make no mistake. This isn't about the idiots that stormed the Capitol or even those who protested but stayed outside.

We don't have to like what people are saying to recognize the threat this wave of expulsions poses to all of us.

For one thing, the axe that crushes opponents' skulls today will be just as damaging to former allies tomorrow.

For another, political ascendancy swings back and forth. When it swings again, people who've been disconnected from online life may decide that Trump was right about Section 230, which protects even the smallest multiuser instances.
In conversation Tuesday, 12-Jan-2021 12:36:38 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
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  Facebook Locks Out Ron Paul Following Column Criticizing Big Tech Censorship, Cites 'Error' | Jon Miltimore
  
  How did we go from banning Alex Jones to taking action against Ron Paul in the space of two years? The answer is not hard to find.
Brad Koehn ☑️ (bkoehn@diaspora.koehn.com)'s status on Monday, 11-Jan-2021 08:15:39 EST Brad Koehn ☑️

You knew this was coming. It’s time to pull the plug on another Facebook property.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#whatsapp #facebook #privacy

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 08-Jan-2021 20:24:53 EST lnxw48a1

I'm hearing that #Google and #Apple are removing the apps for the #Parler #socnet from the #Android PlayStore and the #iOS AppStore.

I'd argue that given their duopoly on mobile operating systems, the power to arbitrarily kick someone out is scary (regardless of how deserving Parler might be; I'm not even sure I've seen a screenshot of the site). I'd argue that this is evidence that the mobile OS and app store groups of both companies need to be split up, so that competition can come ... including strong competition for mobile app stores on each platform.

Again, Parler may deserve it, especially if their users used the socnet to organize their insurrection attempt. (Though I suspect many of them probably used odious #corpocentric sites like #Twitter or #Facebook, which are not being punished.)

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Dec-2020 15:00:49 EST lnxw48a1

Apparently, the FTC (and 48 state attorneys general) are suing #Facebook over its monopolistic practices, including buying up emerging competitors.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/25/facebook-ftc-lawsuit-440645 [www politico com] CAUTION: #JavaScrippled

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/tech/facebook-antitrust-lawsuit-ftc-attorney-generals/index.html [www cnn com]

https://news.yahoo.com/states-ftc-suing-facebook-alleged-193833264.html [news yahoo com]

The biggest question on everyone's minds should be where is #USDOJ? They should have sued back when Facebook bought #WhatsApp and #Instagram ... or at the least, been actively involved in prosecuting this lawsuit. It really does seem like DOJ's beef with #Google is that the bribes ^W political contributions weren't large enough or didn't reach the right person.
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1. Late complication tangles FTC’s decision on suing Facebook
  
  from POLITICO
  
  The case would be the next stage of Washington’s legal crusade against Silicon Valley, after the Justice Department sued Google in October.
2. Dozens of states and the FTC sue Facebook for alleged anticompetitive behavior
  
  from CNN
  
  Dozens of states and the federal government sued Facebook on Wednesday in twin antitrust lawsuits, alleging that the social media giant has abused its dominance in the digital marketplace and engaged in anticompetitive behavior.
3. States, FTC suing Facebook for alleged antitrust abuses
  
  If successful, the two cases could lead to the first court-ordered breakup of a U.S. corporation on antitrust grounds in decades.
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Nov-2020 10:48:57 EST lnxw48a1
- GNU Social
- VegOs ✔♋
@vegos I agree. To most organizations, their primary concern is reach. So they congregate on big #corpocentric #socnets, even when the central corporation running things is actively hostile to their point of view.

Then they're butthurt when their accounts are shadowbanned.

Years ago, I tried to persuade some local Black churches and ethic-focused organizations to join !GNUsocial and #Diaspora, but was unsuccessful. I think they all joined #Facebook, where their posts are hidden by the algorithms.

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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Oct-2020 10:13:35 EDT Brian Ó

“Right-wing populism is always more engaging," a Facebook executive said in a recent interview with POLITICO reporters, when pressed why the pages of conservatives drive such high interactions. The person said the content speaks to "an incredibly strong, primitive emotion" by touching on such topics as "nation, protection, the other, anger, fear."

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/26/facebook-conservatives-2020-421146

#politics #facebook #propaganda
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1. Why the right wing has a massive advantage on Facebook
  
  from POLITICO
  
  A company executive responds to claims of bias.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Sunday, 30-Aug-2020 03:55:40 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
● NEWS ● #VOANews #Monopolies ☞ #Zuckerberg says #Facebook Erred in Not Removing Militia Post https://www.voanews.com/usa/zuckerberg-says-facebook-erred-not-removing-militia-post
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1. Zuckerberg says Facebook Erred in Not Removing Militia Post
  
  from Voice of America
  
  Facebook made a mistake in not removing a militia group's page earlier this week that called for armed civilians to enter Kenosha, Wisconsin, amid violent protests after police shot Jacob Blake, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. The page for the "Kenosha Guard" violated Facebook's policies and had been flagged by "a bunch of people," Zuckerberg said in a video posted Friday on Facebook.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Sunday, 30-Aug-2020 03:55:24 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
● NEWS ● #Variety #Monopolies ☞ Mark #Zuckerberg Admits #Facebook ‘Operational Mistake’ in Failing to Pull Wisconsin Militia Group https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-operational-mistake-wisconsin-militia-group-1234753545/
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1. Mark Zuckerberg Admits Facebook ‘Operational Mistake’ in Failing to Pull Wisconsin Militia Group
  
  By Todd Spangler from Variety
  
  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg conceded in a town-hall meeting with employees this week that the social giant fell down on the job in failing to remove a militia group’s “call to arms” that had urged followers to engage in violence amid the unrest in Kenosha, Wisc., following the shooting of a Black man.
  
  “It was largely an operational mistake,” Zuckerberg said regarding Facebook’s inaction on removing the “Kenosha Guard” group on the platform, even after multiple users had reported it for violations, until after two people were killed in the Wisconsin city.
  
  The CEO made the comments in a companywide meeting Thursday. Zuckerberg posted video from the meeting Friday after his remarks — and an angry backlash among Facebook employees about the situation — were reported by BuzzFeed News.
  
  Law enforcement officials said two protesters in Kenosha, Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, were shot and killed Aug. 25 by a 17-year-old Illinois boy, who had traveled to the city intending to engage in violence. Protests erupted in Kenosha after video showed a Kenosha police officer shooting Jacob Blake, a Black man, seven times in the back in front of his children on Aug. 23.
  
  Zuckerberg told employees that Facebook had not discovered any evidence that the teenager who is alleged to have murdered the two protesters had a connection to the now-removed Kenosha Guard page.
  
  In the town hall with employees, Zuckerberg said the team that enforces Facebook’s policy against dangerous organizations “is trained to look for symbolism and innuendo” and that the “contractors and reviewers who the initial complaints [about the Kenosha Guard] were funneled to didn’t pick this up. On second review, doing it more sensitively, the team responsible for dangerous organizations recognized that this violated the policies and we took it down.”
  
  Zuckerberg added, “We’re going to continue to enforce our policies and continue evolving the policies to be able to identify more potential dangerous organizations and improve our execution in order to keep on getting ahead of this.”
  
  According to the BuzzFeed News report, several Facebook employees were sharply critical of how the company handled not only the Kenosha Guard group but its failure to ban other dangerous groups like those affiliated with the QAnon conspiracy cult.
  
  “At what point do we take responsibility for enabling hate-filled bile to spread across our services? Anti-Semitism, conspiracy, and white supremacy reeks across our services,” one employee said in a comment posted during the meeting, per BuzzFeed News. Another unidentified staffer said, “Feels like we’re caught in a cycle of responding to damage after it’s already been done rather than constructing mechanisms to nip these issues before they result in real harm.”
  
  Many Facebook employees have been upset about what they perceive as the company’s laissez-faire approach to hate groups and content. In June, hundreds of staffers staged a virtual walkout over Facebook’s failure to take action against Donald Trump’s posts suggesting that government forces would fire on rioting crowds in Minnesota, in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.
  
  Facebook, faced with an advertiser boycott aimed at pressuring the company to improve its policing of hate speech, has announced crackdowns in recent weeks on various fringe groups.
  
  Last week, Facebook said it removed hundreds of pages, groups and Instagram accounts tied to QAnon, a bizarre internet disinformation movement whose followers apparently believe in the existence of a shadowy cabal of anti-Trump cannibal-pedophile sex traffickers that controls the U.S. government. But critics both inside and outside the company have argued that Facebook still isn’t doing enough to combat threats including QAnon, which anti-hate groups have warned can lead to real-world violence.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Saturday, 29-Aug-2020 20:03:37 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
A #Kenosha Militia #Facebook Event Asking Attendees To Bring Weapons Was Reported 455 Times. Moderators Said It Didn’t Violate Any Rules. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/ryanmac/kenosha-militia-facebook-reported-455-times-moderators

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Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Saturday, 29-Aug-2020 04:34:17 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
● NEWS ● #Bloomberg #hk ☞ #Google , #Facebook Dump Plans for U.S.- #HongKong Undersea Cable https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-29/google-facebook-dump-hong-kong-cable-after-u-s-security-alarm
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1. Google, Facebook Dump Plans for U.S.-Hong Kong Undersea Cable
  
  from Bloomberg.com
  
  But the companies quickly submitted a revised proposal that includes links to Taiwan and the Philippines, as envisioned in the application that was withdrawn on Thursday.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Saturday, 29-Aug-2020 02:46:05 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
● NEWS ● #TheVerge #facebook ☞ Mark #Zuckerberg says #Kenosha Guard rulings were ‘an operational mistake’ https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/28/21405790/zuckerberg-kenosha-guard-killing-kyle-rittenhouse-facebook-moderation
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1. Mark Zuckerberg says Kenosha Guard rulings were ‘an operational mistake’
  
  from The Verge
  
  ‘At what point do we take responsibility?’ one employee asked
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2020 22:19:23 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
#facebook 'friends' are your friends in the same sense that an inflatable doll can be your girlfriend

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Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2020 10:44:14 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
● NEWS ● #TechDirt ☞ Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Insanely Stupid Lawsuit Against #Facebook https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200826/17175945190/robert-f-kennedy-jrs-insanely-stupid-lawsuit-against-facebook.shtml
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1. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Insanely Stupid Lawsuit Against Facebook
  
  from Techdirt.
  
  As you may have heard, last week Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vax organization "Children's Health Defense" filed a supremely stupid lawsuit against Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, and fact checking organizations Poynter and Politifact...
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) (schestowitz@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2020 03:37:52 EDT Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)
● NEWS ● #IsraelNationalNews #Facebook ☞ It’s time to unfollow #Farrakhan https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/285868
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1. It’s time to unfollow Farrakhan - Opeds
  
  from Israel National News

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