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On January 15th, 2018, World Socialist Web Site reported that users are unable to share a promotional video for a January 16th online meeting, "Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship."
Facebook has blocked users from sharing a social media video promoting the January 16 online meeting "Organizing resistance to Internet censorship," featuring World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board Chairman David North and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges. The initial post of the video, uploaded Friday, cannot be shared by any user. Those who attempt to do so receive an error message that seems to imply a technical failure.
Users reported, however, that upon clicking "If you think you're seeing this message by mistake, please let us know," they were presented with a notice that clearly indicates the content had been blocked in the name of keeping Facebook "safe."
WSWS published an open letter about internet censorship and net neutrality on November 25. The FCC repealed net neutrality rules on December 14, 2017.
In this AC's opinion, Facebook is certainly within their rights to refuse to host any content for any reasons they choose. However, for many people, Facebook is the internet.
Should we worry about entrenched services such as Facebook and Google using their positions to suppress information? Does the presence or absence of net neutrality change one's analysis of the situation?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @06:48AM (1 child)
Links to facefuck! It dies it does! Kill the main streamer!! Death!!! Dearth!!! Dick up its ass!!!!!!
(Score: 1) by anubi on Wednesday January 17 2018, @07:11AM
I will post other links when I find them... but the story was claiming they had failed to upload the video. When I got the video to play on their site, I captured and posted the URL it was coming from.
Now, personally, I think if they know they are posting video contrary to the siteowner's positions... best not ask that siteowner to host their video - best sneak in a link, and hold their content out of his control.
Typical Streisand effect... tell me that some multibillionaire is pissed at some little guy's video - enough to pick a fight over it, and you have my curiosity aroused enough to see what all the fuss is about.
By corollary, damn near anything the Government does NOT want you to see is probably worth taking a look at!
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]