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Would have been a good reason to leave facebook / Meta – but I already did ...
this is likely to keep as much people on windows as possible in an effort prevent people from being able to disable (or not have at all) things like location tracking, telemetry, etc. the us govt is probably going to crack down hard on "terrorist" threats (aka socialists, palestine supporters, and even anyone moderately critical of us imperialism), so they're gonna need all the information they can gather about people's online activities
The irony is that they said this from something running on a Linux box.
The funny bit is that I've seen multiple references to "Meta/Facebook finally stops censorship" from right-wing-ish sources (probably because they stopped fact-checking and removed some moderation guidelines). And now, this...
Yeah, they now no longer censor things like saying that LGBTQ+ people are mentally ill or that women are "household objects" or that all immigrants are criminals (regardless of immigration status). So, yes they stopped censoring hate-speech that far right people don't consider hate speech because they consider those things as accepted facts.
This issue is more likely about the perception that anyone with an interest in technology is a cyber criminal. Same reason that the Bush administration's NSA flagged subscribers to the Liinux forums. Knowledge is power and they believe anyone who wants knowledge is a threat to their power. They'd prefer to go back to the dark ages and die of dysentery than accept women as equal, gay people as human, or brown people as neighbors (which is even more ironic when coming from other brown people).
Gee. Sounds a lot like CCP. Oh well.
The irony is Facebook contributes to opensource linux, heavily for btrfs which they use for certain data storage.
Security threat to the US Fascist Government maybe. Maybe coinicdence that it was near Jan 20th. Maybe I am looking to deep but looks like USA is trying to be North Korea or China . Use Windows face recognition and telemetry to to track users, censor alternative OSs from public knowledge.
Don't they use linux for their own servers LOL?
It seems appropriate to describe Facebook itself as a cybersecurity threat because of the OS platform it runs on. Perhaps they should also ban all the technologies named on this page .. just to be safe.
Why do try to ban Linux mentions? Linux doesn't show ads unlike Windows 10+ so their ad campaign is useless on Linux therefore malicious in their eyes.
People still use Facebook?
