Comment by octopoc
1 year ago
FTA:
> Iron Truth members have flagged thousands of posts for removal, from clearly racist or false content to posts that are merely sympathetic to Palestinians.
(emphasis added)
If you aren't connected enough to get Google to fix your email, your business is disrupted. It's unfair but life moves on. Maybe next time you don't use Gmail.
The stakes are much higher here in an actual war / genocide. People are starving, dying, having their homes stolen, etc. and this is an attempt to deny them a voice.
Also FTA:
> I copied the URL of the video and sent it to a team in [Facebook parent company] Meta, some Israelis that work for Meta, and I told them that this video needs to be removed and actually they removed it after a few days.”
American companies should not engage in propaganda for a foreign country. I find it reprehensible that foreign nationals from a nation currently engaged in conflict are deliberately working together to push a foreign agenda on the people of the entire world.
This is way, way different than not being able to use Google apps for business.
I think it would be safer to remove all political posts from social media (both sides) as policy. There is a massive propaganda war on both sides and all it does is amplify sentiment, create further division, hurt more people and compromise security over time.
The press are bad enough at coming up with verified claims from the right people. Social media is 1000x worse.
Of course our current American social media dictators are pretty lax on doing anything positive for society as a whole while it benefits them.
How do you disambiguate "political" content from "content people want to share?"
The hard thing about "getting politics out of X" is that every time people are involved, politics is involved. Politics is just what people think the group should be.
> The press are bad enough at coming up with verified claims from the right people. Social media is 1000x worse.
No doubt. One of these days we might successfully drill into people's skulls "Stop getting your news from social media; that's not news that's rumors."
> No doubt. One of these days we might successfully drill into people's skulls "Stop getting your news from social media; that's not news that's rumors."
It's much worse than rumors: it's often deliberately misconstrued/out of context, or outright lies.
Rumors I don't mind so much, since they're usually pretty obvious.
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