Facebook is Blocking Canadians’ Posts About the Assassination of a BC Sikh Leader. Their Posts Were Targeted by India’s Government.
Facebook is Blocking Canadians’ Posts About the Assassination of a BC Sikh Leader. Their Posts Were Targeted by India’s Government.
Canadian Sikh Facebook users receive notifications that their posts are being taken down because they’re in violation of Indian law
Canadian Sikh Facebook users receive notifications that their posts are being taken down because they’re in violation of Indian law
In other words, “Our Indian moderation subcontractor applied Indian law to Canadian posts in Canada. Oops.”
sound like a great reason to stop using Facebook
Toss it on the pile.
Wow, I didn't think "Facebook sucks" would be such a controversial statement on a place like Lemmy or kbin
I wonder if people would have the same reaction if the person in question was a known Islamic Terrorist. If there were Facebook groups praising the legacy of Osama Bin Laden, would Meta be then justified to carry out similar censorship?
This guy isn’t a terrorist, or at least is not demonstrably so.
His only crime is wanting to create a place for Sikhs. Maybe he uses violence but I don’t see that in a Google search.
Besides which, if india had credible evidence he was a terrorist…. Chances are solid that he’d have been extradited long before now. It sounds like he wasn’t actually a citizen, but a refugee
Drinking the bakht koolaid eh?
Yeah a random minute wage Indian worker applied policy wrong. Absolutely fantastic reason to not use the platform!!! 🤦♂️
This type of shit is exactly why nobody listens to privacy advocates. People see this reaction and just laugh.
What does this persons comment have to do with being a privacy advocate? Maybe they’re just vehemently anti monopoly and hate Facebook for that.
Judging by the downvotes everyone saw your reaction and laughed instead of the one you’re replying to…
So they received a take down request from the Indian government, mistook the users for being in India, followed the law that they're required to follow in India, and when it was brought to their attention that those users were actually based in Canada they went back and allowed the posts. This doesn't seem as malicious as people are making it out to be, they should probably work on their geo-blocking, but with 3 billion users in 150+ countries with their own local laws it's probably safer to be aggressive when it comes to removing content when requested.
If anyone needs another example of why centralized social media is dangerous, here’s one.
And what would you call the child porn that keeps popping up here?
You people are absurd and just throwing spaghetti at the wall.
This is clearly an admin mistake over at Facebook but you people want Facebook to fail so badly you run with the most inconsequential dumb shit.
Woah dude. Where did that come from. One thing being worthy of criticism doesn’t mean other things aren’t.
Part of freedom is that some people will abuse it.
I hope you're not suggesting we should give up freedoms so those abusing it can't.
Just go after the abusers, which instance admins do.
If you're trying to suggest a solution to stop all sharing of CP on the internet without restricting everyone else, I'd love to hear what you come up with.
waits patiently
Apparently "CSAM".
Stop with the censorship.
Stop using censored platforms.