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Photo by Ricardo Beliel/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images. The social network didn’t want to independently stop the illegal sale of land in the Amazon initially because Facebook’s “commerce policies require buyers and sellers to comply with laws and regulations,” the company told the BBC in February. Neither did I.
Others, such as President Trump’s Muslim ban, took a few tries — but eventually became law. And after Hong Kong passed a new national security law giving vast new surveillance powers to the Chinese Communist Party, TikTok led all social networks in pulling the app from Hong Kong. TikTok is registered in the Cayman Islands, for example.
The theory originated on an anonymous conservative blog. They’re encouraging people to post disinformation in the groups, find “incriminating” information that they can pass to law enforcement, and find as much personal identifying information as possible. Ben Collins / NBC). Ali Breland / Mother Jones ). Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ).
More conservative moderators have taken a heavy-handed approach to removing such posts — no non-shower thoughts in the shower thoughts forum ! Non-governmental organizations say American companies pay as much attention to similar situations unfolding in India, Brazil, and Myanmar, among other places.
Maybe your reaction is that’s terrible, we should get rid of the law that makes all that posting possible. Trump fans and conservative politicians are flocking to the social media app Parler. Eligible creators in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States can now participate.
It was barely two months ago that the company removed a post by the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, for promoting a phony coronavirus cure. You can argue that the company is more sensitive to pressure from conservatives in the United States, and a lot of good reporting has borne that out in the past few years.
Nathan Simington is known for supporting Republicans’ “bias against conservatives” schtick, and helped to craft a recent executive order about social media. Facebook reviews user data requests through its law enforcement portal manually, without screening the email address of people who request access. Makena Kelly / The Verge ).
That’s the irony of all this,” said Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford University law professor who studies technology and democracy. That has led an increasing number of conservatives to sue social networks alleging infringements on their rights. Zuckerberg then mentions a case in which Facebook removed a post by the president of Brazil.
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