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posted by takyon on Wednesday January 17 2018, @05:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the faceblocked dept.

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 The FCC repealed net neutrality rules on December 14, 2017.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?


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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday January 17 2018, @06:25PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 17 2018, @06:25PM (#623698) Journal

    But it's also true that coops can succumb to bad management. I know of one example that worked well for about 60 years, and then elected a board that was expansionist, and went bankrupt within a decade, even though it still had lots of community support. You *DON'T* take a low margin business and try to make it more profitable by rapid expansion...but these professional managers did.

    Now it's true this was a consumers coop, not a workers coop, but the same general rule applies.

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