Facebook Caught LYING About Censorship, Regulation Is Coming
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🗓️ 10 May 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Facebook Caught LYING About Censorship, Regulation Is Coming. Facebook banned several right wing figures but claimed this is normal for them but in a new report from the Associated Press we learned that not only does Facebook leave up the overwhelming majority of content that breaks the rules they actually compile it into celebratory videos.
Researchers found only 38% was actually getting removed and the AP was able to easily find content that went well beyond anything Paul Joseph Watson every published. This flies in the face of Facebook's statement about banning and censoring content.
Social media censorship seems to be reaching a tipping point as even Vox.com is pointing out the hypocrisy of Facebook and how it tends to target conservatives. If a far left site like Vox sees the lies then its only a matter of time before social media regulation drops.
But while free speech is paramount this means the worst of the worst will be able to organize. Where do we draw the line?
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| 0:00.0 | When Facebook banned Paul Joseph Watson, loreloomer, |
| 0:02.8 | Malianopolis and others, they claimed an |
| 0:05.0 | statement to the press that they always banned people or content they find extreme or dangerous, |
| 0:10.0 | and most of us assumed that was a lie. |
| 0:12.4 | And it turns out it likely was. |
| 0:14.8 | In a story from the Associated Press, we're learning that not only does Facebook leave up the |
| 0:19.0 | majority of extremist content, they've actually been auto-generating celebratory videos using |
| 0:25.1 | extremist content. |
| 0:26.3 | In this shows just how hypocritical they really are, they likely banned these |
| 0:29.8 | individuals associated with the right for press reasons. |
| 0:32.9 | One of the key components of their defense of their censorship is section 230 of the Telecommunications |
| 0:38.5 | Decency Act, but that requires there a platform and not a publisher. |
| 0:42.2 | However, we're learning in a story from Vox that Facebook is trying to claim they're both |
| 0:46.9 | at the same time in different suits. |
| 0:49.1 | Facebook is completely hypocritical, and regulation is coming, because people are realizing |
| 0:54.3 | that Facebook's been lying the whole time. |
| 0:56.5 | They're selling our data, and they're lying about why and how they censor people. |
| 1:01.1 | Today, let's take a look at these stories as well as another story in Poland, |
| 1:05.1 | which may be a landmark case which restricts censorship on Facebook. |
| 1:09.1 | But before we get started, make sure you follow me on mines at mines.com slash Timcast. |
| 1:14.3 | I don't want to have all my eggs in one basket. |
| 1:16.3 | Recently, YouTube stripped monetization away from Sargon of a Cod, so you realize just how |
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