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Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack

posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 26 2016, @08:57PM   
from the guess-which-side-they-are-on dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

Facebook admitted Sunday that it had blocked links to the Wikileaks trove of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee.

In a Twitter post late Saturday, WikiLeaks accused the social media giant of "censorship" and gave its followers an online workaround, saying "try using https://archive.is."

The WikiLeaks allegation followed a firestorm of controversy that erupted earlier this year when former Facebook workers admitted routinely suppressing conservative news.

Source: https://nypost.com/2016/07/24/facebook-admits-to-blocking-wikileaks-links-in-dnc-email-hack/

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• Re:nationalize social media now Re:nationalize social media now (Score: 3, Interesting) by MostCynical on Tuesday July 26 2016, @11:31PM

  by MostCynical (2589) on Tuesday July 26 2016, @11:31PM (#380500) Journal

  Alas, the problems with "social media" aren't perceived by *most* people.
  "Normal" society (the parts that can't, or choose not to, understand) sees anyone espousing the problems as "loony".

  Conspiracy theorists, people with mental health concerns, IT and tech "nerds" are all lumped together by "mainstream" society, and dismissed, even when it has been shown over and over that "they" *are* out to get us, you and your data are *not* safe online (or anywhere with CCTV, or wifi coverage, or electronic ticketing, or rfid readers, or electronic tollway tags, or ....)

  You can't educate the willfully ignorant.

  --
  "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

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• Re:nationalize social media now (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @01:46AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @01:46AM (#380565)

  Conspiracy theorists, people with mental health concerns, IT and tech "nerds" are all lumped together by "mainstream" society, and dismissed

  IT has gone mainstream normal and oldschool "autistic" tech nerds are not welcome in IT either.

  https://ddg.gg/?q=we%27re+social+coders [ddg.gg]

  You can thank Linus "Git" Torvalds for the world domination of GitHub as the Facebook of Social Coding. Membership in GitHub is absolutely mandatory, so much so that if you don't have a GitHub profile, you're dismissed as a crank who's simply not a coder. You see plenty of people here on SoylentNews proudly refuse to use Facebook, yet SoylentNews is all over GitHub.

  GitHub is social media.

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