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

[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?

[prettyflyforafatguy@feddit.uk]

among the not tech inclined? not many i'd reckon

[kibiz0r@midwest.social]

Did not expect “Linux users” to be in the early stanzas of “First they came for the […]”

[ourkaos@lemmy.today]

That's the reason I got out of programming. Spending days reinventing the concept of the wheel so you can then reinvent the wheel, and as soon as you finish someone looks at your code and says "why didn't you just add 1 here?"

I didn't make enough money to maintain a drug habit that would have allowed me to keep my sanity.

[cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de]

Who hurt Facebook? This must be some unintended issue or else what do they have to do with Linux?

[_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

We've been on the receiving end of attention like this from Microsoft for longer than Facebook has been a thing, if Zuck thinks this is gonna make a dent in things, he's mistaken.

[_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

You mean besides the fact that Linux gives power and choice back to the user, and that goes against everything Facebook stands for?

[_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I mean, Linux literally runs the world, so if this is the best he can do, not even my bunny slippers are gonna be spooked.

[vitorobles@lemmy.today]

Those who need it the most. Imagine them just asking questions about what this Linux thing is to their friends.

[_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I don't think it was Microsoft, in the past few years they've been being a little chill towards Linux.

As for being an attack, even if they wanted to, they couldn't get rid of Linux. Even the US government can't tell people to stop using it. I mean, they can tell people to stop, but there's no practical way for them to enforce such a law. Most distros out there also distribute via torrent, so even if you took down the websites for all the distros, you couldn't stop the distribution of the ISOs. Not to mention, if they outlawed or restricted Linux, I can't think of anything that would absolutely make the Linux users become very rebellious. Imagine the majority of the hackers, white, gray, and black hat, all of a sudden becoming very angry with the US government. It would be absolute chaos.

Not to mention, there are corporations like Valve and Ubuntu that have invested millions into Linux. I don't believe for a second they would just lay down and not fight the government outlawing something that has become very lucrative for them.

[mushroomm@sh.itjust.works]

Sure but those links to sketchy .apk games of which the ad for them involves rape or kidnapping usually are a-okay

[psycho_driver@lemmy.world]

That and Linux is kind of like a software implementation of socialism and it's been a smashing success.

[atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

And when you look at it it's stupid either way