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Facebook Intensifies Censorship Ahead of Congressional Testimony by Zuckerberg

posted by martyb on Wednesday April 11 2018, @01:14AM   Printer-friendly
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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/04/09/cens-a09.html

Zuckerberg announced Friday that the company will "require people who manage large pages to be verified," meaning they will have to provide the company, and by extension the US government, with their real names and locations.

[...] Zuckerberg added that the move would involve the hiring of thousands of additional censors and "security" personnel. "In order to require verification for all of these pages and advertisers, we will hire thousands of more people," he wrote.

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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Wednesday April 11 2018, @08:48AM (1 child)

    by Wootery (2341) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @08:48AM (#665295)

    It's a website. Facebook can adopt whatever policies they want, and we're free to judge them for it, but your analogy is pretty stretched.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @02:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @02:35PM (#665378)

    No, I don't think they should be able to adopt whatever policies they want, since I'm not a ridiculous free marketeer. For example, they should not be allowed to store information about people who don't even have accounts (shadow profiles), and nor should their massive facial recognition schemes be legal.

    No one should be using Facebook anyway, for privacy reasons and others. It is dangerous to give such a company the ability to build a bubble around you. This idea that it's worth being used by Facebook because you can have fake 'friends', find out about events, or chat with family members across the country who you obviously don't really care about is asinine. It seems no one has any principles whatsoever, which led to these era where privacy barely exists even if you don't use these monstrous surveillance engines.