Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked
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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.
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Sure but those links to sketchy .apk games of which the ad for them involves rape or kidnapping usually are a-okay
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That and Linux is kind of like a software implementation of socialism and it's been a smashing success.
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And when you look at it it's stupid either way
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You're not referring to this satire article by chance?
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It could be if it's really old but yeah whatever it was it was Google's top result if you searched linux in Google for quite a while. I think the one I read was a bit more malicious and less Jokey about it.
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This is the opposite of a conspiracy. More of an incompetence theory.
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Its not suckerberg, it's Microsoft doing this. Not the first time, not the last either, definitely a low and scary step, though. This is one step in the direction of "let's literally kill the competition"
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yeah, i hope i'm just overthinking. Its just that linux is basically only true freedom we have what comes to operating systems. Maybe they just want to keep people who dont know that much about computers away from linux. Though that should be opposed just as well.
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a communist os
That's exactly what it is
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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.
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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.
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Gentoo on desktop.
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Yup, sheer incompetence rather than malice is my guess. Meta has nothing to gain by promoting windows.
