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

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

Are we the baddies?

No, no, we're not the... wait what distro you running?

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

Ehh, we still have family and HOA's that only use Facebook.

hell, my kid's school still uses Twitter to communicate that the busses have left.

[vonbaronhans@midwest.social]

Probably not in the sense that the average American uses the word "communist", which is more about their remembered history of authoritarian regimes of the USSR and mid 20th century China and those sorts. Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, and the atrocities thereof.

Linux is communist insofar as it is open source, and therefore less affected or tied up in capitalistic practices. Capitalists still use and contribute to Linux, but often those contributions go back into the commons of the open source code.

You probably know all that, I'm just feeling long winded.

[msage@programming.dev]

Gentoo on desktop.

[lordkitsuna@lemmy.world]

I mean they are not wrong, Linux is a very big threat of good cyber security which makes it harder for them to collect information. I am not at all surprised that Facebook views cyber security practices as a threat( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[revan343@lemmy.ca]

[kushan@lemmy.world]

Yup, sheer incompetence rather than malice is my guess. Meta has nothing to gain by promoting windows.

[fallowseed@lemmy.world]

i don't want to expose my ignorance or nuthin, but- does deepseek run on linux?

[labbbb2@thelemmy.club]

Clown show, one of the reason to not to use proprietary software

[jj4211@lemmy.world]

I'm running the one true distribution, SCO

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

Neo, The matrix has you

[ne0n@lemmy.world]

Are there really that many Linux users discussing on Facebook? My brothers in Open Source, there are much better places even without this ban…

[spezi@feddit.org]

Of course, its just an open source LLM that you can run on open source software like Ollama or LoLLMS

[outlierblue@lemmy.ca]

Facebook itself runs on Linux. There's a 0% chance it runs on Windows Server.

[vonbaronhans@midwest.social]

Okay that gave me a hearty chuckle, thank you.

[probably2high@lemmy.world]

My initial instinct is that it's not about security (obviously), but the beginning of the attack of FOSS, since China dunked on everyone with their AI model, that can now be used by anyone freely (with the appropriate resources) rather than the ever-growing product making you pay for their useless snake oil.

[probably2high@lemmy.world]

I think we're about to see FOSS under siege by the technocrats, and it's going to be depressingly effective since most people have no idea why it's so fundamentally important to the world of tech.

[doolbs@lemmy.world]

This is the first shot

Even though almost every big tech company uses Linux on the backend they don't want you to use it.

Think of Peacock not letting people running Linux be able to use their application.

It's free and open source, and the powers to be don't want anybody to have that.

You can do what you want with it if you are willing to learn about it. Governments don't like that.

I may be wrong, but I see more of this coming.

[fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com]

For the record, not everyone thinks ethics in licensing is a bad idea.

[tonytonychopper@mander.xyz]

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