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Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack

posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 26 2016, @08:57PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday July 27 2016, @03:22AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 27 2016, @03:22AM (#380596) Journal

    All of you superior creatures who know how bad Facebook is - how did you discover that fact? Apparently, you've never clicked on a Facebook page, you have simply never visited the site - yet you know how horrible it is? Oh, I see, you've been following the evaluations and comments of braver souls who have explored the cesspool.

    I guess it is a moderately higher form of wisdom to learn from the experience of others. For me, it was just another Twitter. I didn't see a good reason to use it and even early on, I could see the problems that would develop (such as having a massive circle of "friends" that need maintenance, too much of my information online, silly drama (just look at how much bellyaching and mod bombing there is with a slashdot-style rating system), and no pressing use case (still doesn't exist now either).

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 27 2016, @02:19PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 27 2016, @02:19PM (#380742) Journal

    "and even early on,"

    I will readily grant that things were pretty obvious "early on". Unlike the posts made by AC, you apparently took a wait-and-see stance, until things started going to crap. Salutes for that.

    Personally, I was an early signer-upper, and I used it very little. Early signs that it was turning to crap irritated and scared me, but I was still hoping that Facebook might have enough redeeming values to be worthwhile.

    Unfortunately, they blew away all of their redeeming values long before they became a publicly traded company. As mentioned earlier, I post almost nothing to Facebook, I read very little. The main purpose for keeping the account, is to check up on people who make it difficult to check up on them. They won't answer a phone call, but they'll post on Facebook? Go figure . . . .