• fubo@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    You can’t be pro-Palestine if you’re not anti-Hamas.

    Remember, Netanyahu is pro-Hamas because he knows Hamas is bad for Palestinians.

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      2 years ago

      Sadly this is turning into one of those “I support the troops, but I don’t support the war” moments. People just hear “pro-Palestinian people” and immediately think “omg, you support Hamas and terrorists!”

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      I dunno. This just seems like one of those stupid talking points that sounds clever on the surface but when you actually think about it, it’s dumb as hell.

      Like, are you really stupid enough to believe Hamas would sabotage any legitimate chance of getting Jews out of Israel because they prefer Gazans to be oppressed? Nah. They’d rather be in control of Israel.

      Unfortunately, the snowball effect has already taken hold, so those who can’t think for themselves will just parrot what you’re saying without second thought in order to fit in.

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    Duh. This censoring is why antisemitic conspiracy theories take hold in the first place. I understand moderation, but if you flag any discussion that goes against mainstream narrative as extremist, all that is left is an echo chamber. It’s right out of 1984 playbook. I am wondering how long before Lemmy will be called an antisemitic platform for even posting news like that?

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        2 years ago

        These accounts were initially locked for security reasons after signs of compromise, and we’re working to make contact with the account owners to ensure they have access

        Why not make it read-only until they make contact with the owners. Seems like an awfully convinient excuse otherwise.

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          Facebook are pretty upfront about the reasons for taking down accounts. It’s possible before they were detected they managed to upload some stuff that would get the account banned right away.

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              2 years ago

              X (formerly known as Twitter) is a different company than Facebook. They have different policies.

              Facebook tend to be upfront about the reasons they removed an account. And they’ll ignore any and all evidence to the contrary after they’ve made that decision. There was a guy who hit the HN frontpage this week because he can’t advertise his online courses on Python and Pandas. Apparently they thought he was trying to sell live animals instead of teaching people how to do data science.

              Twitter just does whatever Musk wants this week.

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      2 years ago

      The question before SCOTUS boils down to: “Is it against the First Amendment for the government to inform social media platforms that a post/account violates that platform’s TOS?”

      The Biden administration is explicitly NOT ordering these platforms to take down posts, but reporting them to mods, like any other user can.

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    2 years ago

    Once you start making social media platforms legally liable for the contents of their users’ posts, this is what will always happen. E.g. this state of affairs appears to be the express purpose of Canadian law. I don’t know why anyone is surprised.

    If you want free speech, you have to stop punishing the courier who delivers messages you don’t like.