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

[atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

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

[teknikal@eviltoast.org]

Remember the first time I read about Linux (long time ago) and they were basically calling it a communist os (not even joking) first site on Google at the time was all about how it was unpatriotic to use it etc.

[jrgd@lemm.ee]

You're not referring to this satire article by chance?

[nevermindnomind@lemmy.world]

To be fair, Meta is the only US based AI player that open sources their models. Fuck meta in general, but it's hard to say that they are wholly opposed to open source.

[teknikal@eviltoast.org]

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.

[roofuskit@lemmy.world]

This is the opposite of a conspiracy. More of an incompetence theory.

[phoenixz@lemmy.ca]

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"

[rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee]

Are we the illuminati?

[reksas@sopuli.xyz]

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.

[revan343@lemmy.ca]

a communist os

That's exactly what it is

[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