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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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(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @02:40AM
Sure, if you use an incredibly broad and useless definition of "social media". But then I would just say that that's not the type of "social media" being discussed.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 27 2016, @03:32AM
With some people it's more like anti-social media...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @06:31AM
Yet with others is more like social anti-media.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 27 2016, @10:57AM
Ponder it a moment. There are way better news sites. What keeps everyone coming around are the discussions, debates, and outright arguments. So we're definitely social media.
Historically, I think social media was done right just before D2 went in over at our great green grandparent. Everything since then has been people trying and failing to improve on that. Except for us. We rock my stripey socks.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Thexalon on Wednesday July 27 2016, @02:25PM
Arguments? Wrong room, this is abuse! (stupid git)
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @10:42PM
So we're definitely social media.
So "social media" is basically any website that allows users to post comments and have discussions. Okay, well, even if you define it that way, this site is still significantly different from Facebook and its ilk. No real name policy, no massive surveillance, no selling of private information, no real expectation of posting sensitive information, etc. Pretty much all of the abuses in the link above. If this site did even a small fraction of the evil things Facebook does, it's almost certain that a grand majority of people here would leave. So while this website may qualify as "social media" under some extremely broad definitions of the term, clearly Facebook is a different kind of "social media".
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 27 2016, @10:59PM
Indeed, we do it right. Them? Pounding the pooch.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.