Whistleblower Alleges Meta Was Ready to Censor Content for Chinese Government

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• RandAlThor@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Honestly, corporations don’t give a fuck about values. There’s only one thing they care: making money. They are the ultimate whores for money. Only way to hurt them is by boycotting their products and services.

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’m a little surprised this is something we needed a whistleblower for.

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s what happened to John Stewarts show on Apple as well

  en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Problem_with_Jon_Stewart

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• umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Chinese Any Government

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• dzso@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Color me not shocked.

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  • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What colour is that then maybe a nice light tiffany blue?

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    • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d say yellow with some brown strips, details in black, cheeks red.

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    • Pringles@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He’ll be shocked about how he ended up looking like a bathroom wall. Maybe a nice light beige/yellow-brown, which is the color of natural rubber?

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s not much of a whistleblower. Everyone already assumed that was the case I suppose it’s nice to have confirmation.

  I imagine they went to the news trying to get this published and everyone was like, well yeah

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Usually “whistleblower” doesn’t mean saying the obvious.

  It’s like various “whistleblowers” proudly saying with worry that ship’s maintenance seems to not be very good, food sometimes not tasty and things stinky, while there’s water filling the passenger deck.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean we can speculate at all but it’s not the same thing as having someone on the inside conforming its the truth.

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• psmgx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “was”?

  I think “is currently” is the correct read.

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• thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here come the “ask it about Tiananmen Square” comments from your alcoholic uncle in his pit vipers

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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  TIL Gizmodo is now owned by a european (Swiss-French) company: www.nytimes.com/2024/…/gizmodo-sold-keleops.html

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• conorab@lemmy.conorab.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m curious if this was going to apply to content on non-Chinese Facebook. Another part of the article referring to hiring a “chief editor” explicitly says that the editor part would apply to the Chinese version only, but at the same time, Facebook removed content posted by a person in New York from Facebook at the request of the Chinese government, so it could go either way.

  If somebody is decrying the state of free speech in their podcast, show or in the campaign trail you can be pretty confident it’s an empty platitude. That said, you probably won’t find many examples of people willing to defend free speech or any civil liberties the moment their freedom is on the line. That’s not Zuck though. He’s just full of it.

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