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"Meta" is censoring anti-war and anti-genocide dissidents on all its platforms, in service of US imperialism. They are now targeting progressive writer Caitlin Johnstone. Another good reason for everyone to totally boycott "Meta"... Snip:

I am at risk of getting banned from both Instagram and Facebook as both Meta-owned platforms keep censoring my criticisms of Israel’s US-backed atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon, placing strikes on my accounts in the process.

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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 42 points 3 weeks ago

Every single Silicon Valley platform is doing this.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 34 points 3 weeks ago

"We're making everything tech and it will make the world of today into the world of the future!"

The future: an iron boot standing on the face of humanity forever

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 32 points 3 weeks ago

so many good IG accounts have been banned the last few months. literal fascists of course are allowed to run free.

[–] Ishmael@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've had my posts deleted from Facebook as well. I got the same message too about "trying to get likes in a misleading way". Super shady

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Same. With me, the post was hidden, so I have no idea what it was. But I always use lib sources with FB, so it couldn't have been anything that radical.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Silicon Valley has been turtles all the way down, but for feds, before it even took its first baby steps in the 70's and 80's.

Google was notably founded on federal government seed money, with the express purpose of funding a company that will have plausible deniability when it feeds 100% of the data the feds want back to them.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago

Meanwhile USian libs call other countries authoritarian

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago

I can't get over the amount of times in the past few years where I've reported very obvious Islamophobia on FB and I got the message that "unfortunately this doesn't violate our community guidelines". On reddit-logo, i just got banned from the sub. Zuck probably got that message that if he wants to be a billionaire, he needs to play ball with the national security state.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago
[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Over in the alternate universe where we don't shoot the Vulcans who make first contact, this gets Meta executives and managers imprisoned and hung at the Hague

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

in the alternate universe where we don't shoot the Vulcans who make first contact

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