We applaud Meta’s efforts to try to fix its over-censorship problem but will watch closely to make sure it is a good-faith effort and rolled out fairly and not merely a political maneuver to accommodate the upcoming U.S. administration change. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/eff-…
EFF Statement on Meta's Announcement of Revisions to Its Content Moderation Processes
In general, EFF supports moves that bring more freedom of expression and transparency to platforms—regardless of their political motivation.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Mark Rosario
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Trit’
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •What do you think it is, actually? Of course, it’s only such a move to allow the nazi (MAGAs ARE nazis!) propaganda to be freely shared. What else it could be, seriously?
As the late Twitter before it, Facebook just became a nazi bar. That’s all.
Duncan Bayne
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Sheeb
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •kirakira
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Noxy 🐾
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •What basis do you have for assuming good-faith from Facebook?
I usually trust the EFF but this statement concerns me.
Klotiii
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Shrig 🐌
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •RussianDeepStateSock
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •you "applaud" any aspect of this? lmao you mean I have to keep an eye on EFF writers, as well? There is nothing to applaud here.
Did EFF applaud fascists attacking affirmative action because they said "it wasnt needed anymore"?
.: jdkiser :.
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Brian Hough
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Bolt
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •I have mixed feelings about this.
I understand that the EFF strives to support free speech online, which this technically supports, but the EFF should also understand better than anyone that platforms beholden to advertisers choosing to allow harmful content only results in the decline of that platform's revenue from losing advertisers, which almost always directly causes enshittification of the platform. (See: Twitter, or "X" I guess.)
Rusty Corgi 🔜 FC
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •James Cridland
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Kees de Kooter 🍋🍉
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •:leafeon: :heart_trans:
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •no.
NO.
Jonathan Schofield
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •The Queen of Weltschmerz🏳️⚧️
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Nora Reed
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •j@mastodon
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •There you go less censorship
404media.co/facebook-deletes-i…
Meta is a rotten corporation, not a freedom fighting NGO. Everything they do is compromised and what you're signaling by your statement is trust in them? Are you for real?
Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White
Jason Koebler (404 Media)Cairo Braga [toot.cb]
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •LAUREN of the BELLS
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Dan FitzGerald
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •other people have been more eloquent here, so I wont try to duplicate their reasoning. I'll just go straight to what I am feeling, in my gut. So, to whomever wrote this post:
Take a long walk off a short pier.
David Plisken 🏳️⚧️ BLM! 🇵🇸
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Donald Ball
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •…
Yeah, we knew you weren’t one on the good ones.
dushinto
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Ret
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •dragonfrog
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •1) This is just an embarrassingly bad take and whoever wrote it should feel embarrassed, and
2) Meta has never had an "over censorship" problem. I have reported blatant racism, transphobia that was well into the territory of incitement to violence, recruitment fraud, ads for illegal drugs, smuggled cigarettes, and academic cheating services, medical advice that would kill people if they followed it, etc. etc. NOTHING has EVER been taken down. Only thing they ever take down is boobs.
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Chad McCullough
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK reshared this.
Draken BlackKnight
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •RootWyrm 🇺🇦:progress:
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •this is the most insane, preemptive boot-licking, pro-fascist shit you could have possibly said. And exactly why I tell everybody who will listen to NOT donate to you, ensure their employer DOES NOT donate or support you, and treat you like the fascist-supporting org you have truly become.
Here's a free hint: Meta wasn't 'over-censoring,' or doing anywhere near enough, and you're just cheerleading for violent racism and disinformation.
John Wilker 👨🏽💻
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •This is a bad look. You’re familiar with Lucy, Charlie Brown and the football?
What in Facebook’s history would lead you to think there’s good faith to be had.
Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •AlexTECPlayz
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Noxy 🐾
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Tek say resist
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •I love y'all. I’ve donated for ages both formally and throwing cash to your booths at various cons. I'm a fan and proud member.
But WTF. No. I can't think of a plausible way to describe Meta as "over-moderated”, nor can I think of a realistic scenario where they’ll actually do this in good faith.
If they want to earn a good reputation, they can begin by starting to act civilly for the first time ever. If that happens, and they keep it up for a few years, *maybe* then I’ll believe it.
Walt Bobrowski
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Mark Ohe
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •This is a shameful and pathetic response.
Phil Betts
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •for a day, while . . .
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •J.P. Wing
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •JKB
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •There are exactly two groups of people who think Meta has an "over-censorship problem":
- artists who want to post nudes
- bigots of all kind who want to post hate and lies
Which group are you in, EFF?
Esther Payne reshared this.
Yurii
in reply to JKB • • •This sounds like a USA / USA-ish take, mb also applicable to EU but i don't know.
I can't post any meaningful fundraiser on Instagram, even absolutely humanitarian stuff like medical supplies or clothes for wounded and/or displaced people. Meta on it's platforms just silently reduces my reach down to almost 0, sometimes literally zero, and acts like nothing is happening.
Sometimes a Ukrainian can't even post something about their daily lives if something war-related, like a person in the uniform, something very common on our streets, is in the frame.
Many times it feels like Meta is trying deliberately to make people believe there's no war in my country, disallowing us to mention it or it's daily consequences. But in reality it's probably something very trivial like "tragedy is bad vibes advertisers don't like it"
@SnoopJ @eff
JKB
in reply to Yurii • • •@sichkovskyi @SnoopJ The problem of algorithmic timelines and the weight (or lack thereof) given to certain "sensitive" topics is indeed a very serious problem, and I think it applies worldwide on these so-called platforms. That problem is amplified by these platforms pushing polarising stuff as they're really farming for outrage. Facebook with an entirely chronological feed and no "suggestions" for rage-bait content would be an entirely different experience, I think.
What I meant is when you take a look at who complains the most or the loudest about what kind of speech Facebook suppresses (aka the people who talk about "censorship", or in this case "over-censorship") they usually fall down into one of the two categories I mentioned here (more often the latter than the former, artists have given up the fight it seems).
Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me the very words "over-censorship" hint at libertarian leanings at best and far-right leanings most likely.
I mean… come on! The EFF is celebrating the fact that you can now say being gay is a mental disease, and that women are property.
(cheers from Belgium, I hope 2025 is the year you guys finally break free from the Russian aggression)
Yurii
in reply to JKB • • •@jkb
Oh yes, if you mean just the wording including the term "censorship" then you are absolutely right. Didn't think about that at first.
Just automatically thought they mean what I would mean but clearly that's two different worlds me and them live in
@SnoopJ
Dave Howcroft
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Pablo M.U.
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Sally Strange
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •mark
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?
The Onion Staff (The Onion)Victor Zambrano
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •The Shaking Earth
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •if you're buying this shit I have a bridge to sell you, too
god
the wide-eyed naivety of this statement
Niléane
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Mister Softie
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •AAKL
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Marta Threadbare
in reply to Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! • • •Bernie the Wordsmith
in reply to Marta Threadbare • • •Marta Threadbare
in reply to Bernie the Wordsmith • • •The Internet Is Not Facebook: Why Infrastructure Providers Should Stay Out of Content Policing
Electronic Frontier FoundationEniko | Kitsune Tails out now!
in reply to Marta Threadbare • • •Bernie the Wordsmith
in reply to Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! • • •Ash Greytree
in reply to Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! • • •@eniko @cygnathreadbare @berniethewordsmith
Later in December of 2022, they got together with other technolibertarian orgs to make a site called "Protect The Stack". They posit it as more than just Cloudflare dropping KF that they're concerned about, but why did they only get it up and running just a couple months after a major win against a hate site, if that was the case?
eff.org/press/releases/interna…
They also put this out in August 2023, when an ISP used its Acceptable Use Policy and also the general principles of Freedom Of Association to stop doing business with KF.
eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps…
They really seem to love going to bat for that site, even if they say they condemn the actions of said site. The EFF can't stop wringing its hands about slippery slopes and it's embarrassing.
International Coalition of Rights Groups Call on Internet Infrastructure Providers to Avoid Content Policing
Electronic Frontier FoundationLady Homealot 🖖not going back
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •FinchHaven
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •The #EFF has become nothing but a lapdog, a dutiful mouthpiece for the advance of global #Oligarchy and #Kleptocracy
For shame, for shame
Except that no one within the EFF has any shame
Andrew
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Dorothea Salo
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •This absolute shitpile -- and similar; this is not the first time you've screwed the pooch this way -- is why I no longer support you financially.
You know why this is fucked up. Shame on you, and fix your hearts.
frlan
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •HowToPhil (Phillip R)
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •It is clearly a political maneuver
Jo
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Athena
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Electronic Frontier Foundation
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Mark Newton reshared this.
J.P. Wing
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Oof, sounds like a certain org is getting hit in the pocketbook.
Trust less.
FinchHaven
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •So
You didn't do your homework and blew it completely
And now you're trying to cover your *ss
Not buying it
Not buying it for one second
markc568
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •You’re either against hate speech or you’re for it. There’s no “middle” on this.
You picked the wrong side.
Sally Strange
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Shrig 🐌
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Nora Reed
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Orca 🌻 | 🎀 | 🪁 | 🏴🏳️⚧️
in reply to Nora Reed • • •They can just literally ask some of their employees. They choose not to. 😅
Ash Greytree
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is.
Electronic Frontier FoundationMister Softie
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •kirakira
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Donald Ball
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Buds, you said Facebook had an “over-censorship” problem.
Get fucked.
Lesley Carhart
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Dark Empath Impersonator
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Bela Lugosi's Dad
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Normal Poster
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Andrew Cook
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •The Shaking Earth
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Cairo Braga [toot.cb]
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •binchicken
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Biggles
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •i cannot believe that in the year 2025, you actually let someone basically write a 'no actually, we should hear the Nazis out, they might have good ideas' article.
You're fucking idiots if you think that granting such largess to demonstrably bad faith actors is going anywhere good.
You *do not* tolerate intolerance.
It's a social pact we make to tolerate others to ensure a peaceful society.
Break the pact, prepare to get whacked.
Sarah Grisham
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Gavin
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •If you had just arrived on Earth you may be forgiven for giving Meta the benefit of the doubt.
It looks deeply foolish now though. They are beyond redemption.
Fully operational gator system
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Good, I figured y'all just hadn't gotten the full picture.
To a lot of people, it seemed there for a moment y'all were going mask-off in support of social manipulation and corporate greed. A scary direction for the EFF.
Saying that to your Fedi audience... 😰
In today's day and age, it's not just what is censored but what is also promoted. Hate speech and factual misinformation were already rampant of the Meta platforms, as they are on the X platform. Social media companies are companies, they will follow what they think will bring them profit and follow what they believe the trend is. Right now, they believe far-right politicians represent their best interests and far-right ideology is trending. Therefore, it makes sense to calibrate their policies and algorithms to support those ideas.
If these platforms were neutral, removing this censorship would already be a pretty bad idea. These platforms definitely aren't neutral, and they already had tremendous issues with content related to hate speech before this decision.
Even 4chan has moderation, it shouldn't be more moderated than the one service our collective grandparents were actually motivated to figure out how to use.
Jonbjohns
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Jonbjohns
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •PJB
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •you fucking idiots saw Zuck making an announcement full of blatant dogwhistles and decided to fucking cheer on him. Then went "whoops, we didn't expect this" when the obvious thing happened.
The only thing you can do to regain any reputation is to delete your post IMMEDIATELY and fucking write an apology explaining how you could possibly fuck up so much.
Dorothea Salo
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Yeah, no, wholly inadequate.
I don't see an apology here to all the people (myself included) you just threw under the hate bus.
We deserve one. An ABJECT one. Y'all seriously screwed the pooch. Own it and apologize.
Mister Softie
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Sara
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •I'm reminded of that time you bankrolled the legal defense of a jackass who'd harassed friends of mine
they were queer
I stopped donating at that point
you've been like this for a while
Red Oak
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Electronic Frontier Foundation
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Meta’s New Content Policy Will Harm Vulnerable Users. If It Really Valued Free Speech, It Would Make These Changes
Electronic Frontier Foundationreshared this
David W. Jones, pizza in 10 days and Battalion reshared this.
Malachi17
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •it was a mistake to project good faith onto the company in this the year 2025?
8 years after the Rohingya genocide? You still gave them the benefit of the doubt?
Is there any kind of internal self-evaluation happening at the organization or even in your own heads asking yourselves why you made such a poor choice? In, and I cannot stress this enough…. 2025?
Pau Amma
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Steve
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •H.Kyllikki
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Joe
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Shrig 🐌
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Stop wasting your energy with this, apologise fully and meaningfully for your repeated naivety and trust for Meta and finally encourage its abandonment and suffocation while elevating its community owned alternatives
JoeBecomeTheSun
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Mx. Alex
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •no shit "it was a mistake to project good faith onto Meta", where you living under a rock this last decade?
I cannot believe I donated to your org at some point, you should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves.
Dorothea Salo
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Y'all will do or say anything to avoid OWNING YOUR SHIT, won't you?
Own. Your. Shit.
You've been simping for hate for a long time. Figure out how you're going to NOT DO THAT ANY MORE, apologize for doing it at all, and then don't do it again.
You get not one penny and not one word of praise from me until you fix your hearts and your practices.
Dorothea Salo
in reply to Dorothea Salo • • •N.b. I'm a librarian. Libraries have totally pulled the same "we're neutral" and "the fix for bad speech is MOAR SPEECH" bullshit you've been pulling all this time.
I teach soon-to-be librarians now why this is not okay and how to move beyond it. The profession hasn't caught up with what I'm teaching yet, but I teach the way I do so that it will, someday.
You can change. You should change. Free speech absolutism is no longer acceptable. Grow up.
nil
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •anton lavey gaming
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •oopsie-woopsie!!! we suppported fascism and now people are mad at us!!! even though their fucking intentions were laid completely bare from the start!
the only people who would ever be concerned that Facebook was "over-censoring" were fascists who wanted to spew hate speech. Only them. give us one good reason to believe you aren't nazi sympathizers.
idiots.
Pliny
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Celeste 🏳️⚧️🏴☠️💻
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •There really is no middle ground here, EFF. Meta has made clear what they are about to do.
The content they are going to allow is anti-democratic, fascist, discriminatory, and hateful.
Talking about "over-censorship" in that context is just cynical and honestly disgusting in my eyes.
We need to condemn any act that leads to a further spread and normalization of neo-fascist ideology and hate before fascism will end free speech once and for all.
So, on what "analysis results" are you waiting for?! They made their stance clear. Get yours straight, please!
Emma Loves ☕️
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Mx. Luna Corbden
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •If a government or de facto governing body does not also protect our rights from being taken away *by other private parties* then the very concept of rights is useless. Speech that removes the rights of others to speak or live or pursue happiness, speech like intimidation, threat, and harassment, is not protected by current US law, and should not be supported in principle by the EFF.
If I am too afraid to express my queerness, because I've been threatened, traumatized, and attacked regularly online, both directly and indirectly, then people who want me to shut up have free speech and I do not.
Do better.
Vivian
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Sin Vega
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Pull the article for a day for editing before this spins farther
Cassandrich
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Sensitive content
Monokeros
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •As a former financial supporter of the EFF,
Fuck you all forever
NadiaPurge
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •::slow, grim chuckle::
Libertarians love to pretend big corporations are good, actually.
So easily conned.
Ibly 🏳️⚧️
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Demon Queen Lucretia 2025 Edition
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •I didn’t realize it was April 1st already.
What on EARTH is this? Have you forgotten about Facebook’s outsized political influence in 2016?
keithzg
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Zuckerberg Declares War on Censorship (Not Really Though)
Ken KlippensteinDavid Collantes
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •ToddZ Ⓥ
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Daniel James
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Daniel James
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •by all appearances, Meta's announcement today is just soon-to-be-FCC-Chairman Carr's plans laid out in Project 2025, section 28 on FCC: documentcloud.org/documents/24…
In particular, the move to TX looks like a reason to cozy up to TX HB 20 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Ho…), as suggested–by Carr, the author of this section of Project 2025–on p849.
2021 law that imposes censorship limitations on websites active in Texas
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Olivia Appleton-Crocker
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Davey
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •what
"We applaud the leopards' announcement of their new, vegan diet, which will in no way include our faces"
What are you for?
McWabbit 🍋🌻🍉
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Arazil
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •What?!?
Oh, EFF, no...
jgeorge
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Orca 🌻 | 🎀 | 🪁 | 🏴🏳️⚧️
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •@Electronic Frontier Foundation
"over-censorship problem". 🤡
Ozzy
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Celeste 🏳️⚧️🏴☠️💻
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Celeste 🏳️⚧️🏴☠️💻
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •keschi Θ
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •You absolute idiots EFF, you dare to even suggest this is a "good faith effort" after that speech?
Has the EFF been bought off or something?
Dakota
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •It is a political action
Allie
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •vapourisation
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Emmy "Pristine Blade" Durden
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •drops wrenchpipe on your head again very bad eff
Zeiros Lion
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Confrontation Jacen
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Yann 不停 Heurtaux
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Reed Mideke
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •You applaud Zuck's transparent efforts to kiss Trump's ass? Really? How embarrassing for you.
"We sincerely hope that the lightened restrictions announced by Meta will apply uniformly, and not just to hot-button U.S. political topics"
LMAO, you can't be *that* gullible
"Censorship, broadly, is not the answer to misinformation"
Ah right, so Facebook could have avoided its role in the Rohingya genocide by… I dunno, community notes saying "some people think massacres are bad, actually"? 🤔
Log 🪵
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Tattie
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •so how much did Zuckerberg pay you to pen this bootlicking puff piece?
Just go ahead and change your user avatar to Pepe the frog like the rest of the "Free Speech (specifically and only for Nazis)" brigade.
Anarchic Teapot 🌹⚧️
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •And that's a "who the fuck do you think you're trying to fool" from me.
Moderation isn't censorship, it's enabling a fair playing-field.
da_667
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Steve Thompson PhD
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Death by Lambda
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •The only organisations that ever have a problem with "over-censorship" are #fascist organisations.
And if and when you applaud fascists, you are one.
#blocked
v0idness
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Captain of the SS El Faro
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Richard Vasquez
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Seriously?
transparency.meta.com/policies…
Section "Tier 2". It's ok to dump on the mental health of gay or trans people?
What is wrong with you?
Hassrede | Transparency Center
transparency.meta.comDr. Fortyseven 🥃 █▓▒░
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •So you saw this bit and thought "well, maybe they mean it in a good-faith way":
> We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like “weird.”
steve mookie kong
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Paco Hope #resist
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •oh come ON. Facebook is nearly TWENTY years old. We have so much ample evidence of their intents and trustworthiness. EFF are usually more savvy than this.
POSIWID: Purpose of a system is what it does. Don’t put scare quotes around “mistakes”. Say flat out why we think this explanation is absurd. They are long past any benefit of any doubt. They now should receive the full weight of doubt. They earned our skepticism year after year, cynical reversal after cynical reversal.
IDeletedSystem64 :v_technomancer:
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •brianpierini
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Fully operational gator system
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •respectfully, I think that you (the person in charge of this account) perhaps don't quite realize what this actually means, and why we're not happy about it. This isn't a play at making these platforms more transparent or democratized, this is to allow hate speech that financially benefits the platform to spread unimpeded. They now have carte blanch to allow their algorithms to further agitate and misinform their user base into capital H harmful beliefs that can cause physical, material harm to others.
In short, I think calling this a bad take is an understatement. Perhaps... Read the room. You probably would have picked up the general vibe on this subject was extremely negative by the kinds of people who are often aligned with EFF values.
Amy Dentata
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •James Cridland
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •ineiti
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •The article is in fact not as bad as most people point out. The worst part is the last paragraph, which is also used as intro in this toot. It goes against the rest of the article where the EFF points out censorship against minorities, which should effectively not be done.
Unfortunately, having listened to Mark's ramblings in his 6-minute video, what Meta calls "Free Speech" is mostly "Free Hate". Combining with algorithms which push for more engagement, and the human brain which lusts after controversies and hate, this is just a recipe for disaster.
Anyway, time to write that last message on WhatsApp and ditch my final link with Meta...
Paul J Wege
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •@pluralistic whats going on there? maybe the next essay could be about braineating worms?
s427
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Kevin Russell
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Fucking years of support for EFF gone forever.
@EFF BLOCKED
Cassandrich
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Handler Skyler
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •tarot reader lunya :3
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •olea
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •"The EFF's proposed fact checking alternative isn't even that good. Let's suppose someone makes a post debunking an American myth like sex trafficking statistics. A small group of people might decide to "correct" that."
Olives (@olives@qoto.org)
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in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation • • •Ω 🌍 Gus Posey
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