Facebook ban on discussing Linux?

[mesamunefire@lemmy.world]

Also here: https://distrowatch.com/weekly-mobile.php?issue=20250127#sitenews

[jwbananas@lemmy.world]

Meanwhile

[eager_eagle@lemmy.world]

the real malware is facebook

[didnt1able@sh.itjust.works]

No fucking way, this is absurd.

[nao@sh.itjust.works]

Discussing a specific linux distribution is not "discussing linux".

Linking to a post on another website about a linux distribution isn't either.

[sunzu2@thebrainbin.org]

Whatever daddy faceberg says, bootlicker

[snotflickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Anyone else remember when the Bush administration considered people who read Linux Journal to be targeted for extra surveillance because they labelled Linux Journal an extremist forum for merely discussing the existence of Tor and Tails?

Pepperidge Farm 'Members.

[crunkby@lemmy.world]

I just tested it out. Nothing so far

[nao@sh.itjust.works]

The linked article has a screenshot with a link to a post about openKylin getting removed.
OP title is "Facebook ban on discussing Linux?" including the question mark.
I don't think it is accurate. At the same time I'm not defending Facebook in any way.

[sunzu2@thebrainbin.org]

You defending corpo censorship and also title has a question mark either way.

If you didn't mean to come off as bootlicker, then you need to work on that tone, "akshually"

[jol@discuss.tchncs.de]

The party of free speech everyone!

https://jessica.substack.com/p/instagram-is-censoring-abortion-pill

[tekato@lemmy.world]

Is there another example of this happening in Facebook aside for the openKylin post? I looked around and every article is only talking about this specific DistroWatch issue.

[suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml]

I reckon, given the extent of voluntary submission to constant surveilance from corporations and the continued march deeper into oligarchy, that it's only a matter of time until platforms that aren't explicitly anti-privacy are going to be reframed as extremist and dangerous as a part of the global political conversation. Perhaps this will end up being the leading edge of that.

[dgriffith@aussie.zone]

"Akshually", so do you. You had a chance to discuss and inform, and instead you went straight to "bootlicker".

Do you think they're going to take any notice of whatever you say from here on?

[sunzu2@thebrainbin.org]

I am not communicating to "them"

I am making record of bootlicker behavior for other readers to correct me or to take notice.

[buwho@lemmy.ml]

been noticing this too in linux fb groups i am in. peoples' posts linking distrowatch are getting banned.

[nao@sh.itjust.works]

Should have phrased it differently: Banning a post on a specific linux distribution is not a "ban on discussing linux" in general.

[s_h_k@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

What a fucking dystopia you live in... Saddening...

[a1studmuffin@aussie.zone]

So what's going on here? Is this related to the new US administration? Or Microsoft and Meta exchanging money to silence the competition? Genuinely confused, but it seems fairly important whatever the motivations.

[undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch]

I already VPN 99% of my traffic out of the country and use non-US services wherever I can. When Trump was first elected I started wondering if they’re going to start a China-style firewall out of the country and it’s been in the back of my mind since.