Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked

[jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de]

Are you also assuming that the idi... fine individuals that decide the content policy have any idea how Facebook works?

[reksas@sopuli.xyz]

I wonder if microsoft asked them to do this, either way this is something that shouldnt be ignored. Its basically direct attack and their endgoal might be to make regular people hate or fear linux. That in turn could be used to influence laws and try to ban or limit linux to corporate use only.

[webghost0101@sopuli.xyz]

CORPO-FOSS WAR

The great prophet @[email protected] has warned us for this.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/unix_surrealism

[pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org]

[obstreperouscanadian@lemmy.ca]

I agree. It's like Occam's Razor, but with stupidity instead of simplicity: the most stupid reason is the most likely.

[misk@sopuli.xyz]

Go and read original Distrowatch post and tell me this doesn’t sound like a plausible and way more boring explanation.

• There is an ongoing US-China trade war that started 2 presidents ago.
• Mark Zuckerberg wants to fellatio Donald Trump (hence dropping pretence of social responsibility)
• Mark Zuckerberg wants to participate in this trade war somehow so he bans mentions of Chinese tech.
• Distrowatch mentions OpenKylin, a Chinese Linux distribution, gets flagged
• Facebook support (person making around $3.5 per month in some third world country) doesn’t know difference between specific Linux distro and Linux itself, tells Distrowatch that Linux is now banned.
• Distrowatch doesn’t research anything and cries foul without second thought because Meta is evil.

[fin@sh.itjust.works]

I just can't believe. wth?

[a_random_idiot@lemmy.world]

Macco's Razor. The stupidest possible explanation is probably the right answer.

[ourkaos@lemmy.today]

Schrodinger's Razor:

The answer is both really smart and really stupid, but you won't know which until you look at the source.

[reginaphalange@lemmy.world]

Microsoft's Schrodinger's Razor

The answer is both really smart and really stupid, but you won't know which until you look at the source, and you can't view it.

[muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee]

You will own nothing and be happy.

[corkyskog@sh.itjust.works]

I will dig out my old tails drive just out of spite if they do that.

[brucethemoose@lemmy.world]

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-joe-rogan-facebook-censorship-biden

Zuckerberg on Rogan: Facebook's censorship was "something out of 1984"

"It really is a slippery slope, and it just got to a point where it's just, OK, this is destroying so much trust, especially in the United States, to have this program."

He said he was "worried" from the beginning about "becoming this sort of decider of what is true in the world." Zuckerberg praised X's "community notes" program as superior to Facebook's model.

Way to tackle censorship, Zuck…

The irony is Facebook is a major contributor to a lot of open source software, and Zuckerberg in particular publicly praised "open" approach of Llama and some other projects.

[reksas@sopuli.xyz]

it shouldnt be allowed to go there because it might not be reversable by then. I wish I was just paranoid but way the world is going makes this very plausible.

By the time things like that become evident its like trying to stop a boulder that has been gaining momentum for a while, which is why I wish people were more active about doing something instead of waiting until there is clear evidence that something should be done.

[malreynolds@slrpnk.net]

Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity (or incompetence).

This works for individuals, but when it comes to corporations, you really have to ask, why not both?

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Facebook infra runs on Linux.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Sometimes it's both. As a software dev, I've seen ingenious solutions (heroics, we call them) for problems that could've (and should've) been solved a much simpler way, but wasn't because the dev didn't have the needed context. So both incredibly smart and incredibly dumb.

[krompus@lemmy.world]

Weird and shitty, but who gives a fuck about Facebook?

[prettyflyforafatguy@feddit.uk]

Everyone over the age of 45 and is not tech inclined

[krompus@lemmy.world]

How many of them give a fuck about Linux?