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• BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The platform is a critical tool for public discourse in the country, with many highly active forums used to discuss PNG politics and social issues.

  There is your fucking problem. Stop fucking centralizing an entire countries discourse to a corporate propaganda platform.

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  • stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Especially a foreign social media company with algorithm that isn’t transparent and has the power to block whatever users and posts they want to push the desired narrative. Its not a free and open platform but a propaganda tool of a single billionaire.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right???

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  • peteyestee@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember as kid I thought adults could be looked up to.

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  • Bzdalderon@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This… I know that my views aren’t the majority, but man do I love this platform and how people actually will have a legit conversation about issues.

    The people who are over emotional and stirring the pot don’t get the same support here. Most just want the truth and to actually talk. I love this!

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• A_A@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To shut down pornography they might have to block 1 or 2 more websites … at least.

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  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just a small handful, no big deal.

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    • Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, snap! You just Papua’d his New Guinea with that dick joke.

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  • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do people use Facebook for porn? Like, on their personal accounts? That’s weird.

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    • synae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The reels and ads they shove in my face are often very scantily clad women. I could see a country/culture with different values getting real upset about that.

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    • A_A@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i don’t know, only went with what the title says

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• Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Misinformation and hate speech on Facebook, sure, but pornography?

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s pornography speech.

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• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Normally, I see any news on government blocking social media for any stated reasons as typically a cover for censorship. But with how Facebook and other social media morphed into something else, I could not care less if they are blocked.

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  • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I want to celebrate this, but it’s hard not to see it as an attempt at authoritarianism. I think the right way to do a Facebook ban is to ensure people have access to a good alternative (like Mastodon) before pulling the plug.

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This absolutely is censorship. Correct way to handle this would be to create laws and prosecute Facebook for not following them.

    All of these comments are justifying autocracy because it’s their flavor of autocracy smh

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure, Papua New Guinea said no, but what did Momma New Guinea say?

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  • Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    boooo

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This just reeks of control.

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  • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe, but it’s an onion of a problem.

    We all know how much FB spreads disinfo and brain rot. The positive effect of disabling it feels as significant as the negative effect on freedom of speech.

    The dichotomy is very much analogous to how I feel about tiktok bans.

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    • themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is it really a problem for freedom of speech, if it’s only a platform getting banned and not specific content?

      If you are allowed to talk about anything still everywhere else on the web, I can’t see the freedom of speech card being valid in this case about FB.

      FB is already controlling what you see, making freedom of speech better without them.

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I really don’t see any downsides, if anything they should ban all the major social media platforms and encourage diversity of platform ownership among the platforms used in the public discourse to strengthen freedom of speech.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I agree that Facebook completely sucks, but I disagree that banning any service is worth it from a freedom of speech perspective. Once you let your country ban services it doesn’t like, it’s one bad administration from banning services critical of it. Don’t go down that road.

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    • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s literally never for a good reason. This also includes bans targeted at specific sub populations

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• 7rokhym@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s trolls, trolls are what Facebook stands on. But what do the trolls stand on? It’s trolls on trolls on trolls all the way down.

  There is nothing trustworthy on Facebook. Shut it down.

  My father is a prepped in his 70s and my brother has become a flat earther. Down with Facebook and YouTube, the two halves of the most evil and vile existence on this planet. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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  • Baguette@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Youtube is not all bad. The algorithm is, but the vast amount of content on it means that theres some genuinely helpful stuff. Videos about repair and fixing, educational videos on any subject in the world, videos about acceptance and self love

    There’s no hope for facebook though, except the not so facebook marketplace (im gonna need a resurgence in like craigslist for that)

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s really suspicious how the yt algo keeps trying to deliver me right wing content when I don’t really engage with political content on that side and the few pieces I do, is Behind the Bastards or Lazerpig.

      I ended up installed a 3rd party channel blocker.

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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What porn? Girls in bikinis?

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  • Snowpix@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Worse. Bare. Ankles.

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hussies!

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  • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I’m not sure Facebook is what I’d be worried about for porn.

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Two out three ain’t bad. Go for it.

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• Chewie@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not sure how Porn = Terrorism. Sounds like mission creep to me… Oh well, I guess it makes a change from using Anti-Terror laws to stop people putting the wrong things in wheelie bins: telegraph.co.uk/…/Half-of-councils-use-anti-terro…

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• Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The shut down Facebook? All of it?

  Or did they simply block it in their country?

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  • nulluser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What, you expect journalists to use the correct words to unambiguously convey a concept?

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• tacobellhop@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Remember when Myanmar happened on Facebook because they all thought Facebook was the entire internet.

  Zuck was in the mud then.

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• pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s pornography on Facebook! That’s disgusting! Someone let me know where so I can be sure to avoid it…

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• ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Everyone should kill their accounts and connection to the site.

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