Norwegian journalist says Meta suspended her accounts after challenging Modi (www.independent.co.uk)
from throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to world@lemmy.world on 21 May 05:03
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Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip on 21 May 07:12 next collapse

Modi Operandi

crandlecan@mander.xyz on 21 May 10:06 collapse

Get out!! 😤😡

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Sequence5666@lemmy.world on 21 May 07:16 next collapse

No surprise here. As much as love and respect Indians are giving to the journalist, she should know that META holds 10% equity in Indias biggest conglomerate Reliance. Ambani who owns reliance is best friends with PM Modi.

When they are investing for new data centers, in Indian land, with no guardrails, Meta becomes submissive to Indias political views.

Follow the money and you will see how money speaks louder than truth in India.

sonofearth@lemmy.world on 21 May 08:41 collapse

It was taken down after mass reporting. This literally cyber bullying.

unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz on 21 May 08:04 next collapse

Ah! Modi! I thought that famous guy was like an app. Don’t uh. Well. Don’t mention I said the pm of some bigass country looks like a morrowind broke NPC merchant

tirateimas@lemmy.pt on 21 May 08:31 next collapse

They just did her a favor, to free her from that crap

sirico@feddit.uk on 21 May 08:40 next collapse

Private company did privatised things. Why do you think you have freedom of speech on a private platform?

frunch@lemmy.world on 21 May 09:18 next collapse

No private company should have that much power/control. Meta is a fucking cancer on society.

mPony@lemmy.world on 21 May 10:55 collapse

the only way for private companies to have less power is if governments enact laws that curtail powers, and actually enforce them. The last step is more challenging to do when the humans involved are physically elsewhere on the globe, but it’s not impossible.

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 21 May 09:33 next collapse

ugh, we’ve got corpo bots here now.

ptu@sopuli.xyz on 21 May 11:11 next collapse

I think he meant his comment as a critique, not approval

Wrufieotnak@feddit.org on 21 May 11:26 collapse

They explain their reasoning here in another comment.

Short version: not a corpo bot.

NABDad@lemmy.world on 21 May 09:47 collapse

Yes, and we get to hear about it and complain about it and decide if that private company deserves to die as a result.

Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences. That means Meta can kick people off their platform for saying things they don’t like, and it also means that we can collectively decide Meta should cease to exist.

sirico@feddit.uk on 21 May 10:05 next collapse

Exactly I think my point’s been misread a bit. I’m not arguing that Meta has no legal right to moderate its own platform.

My point is that we’ve allowed public debate, journalism, and politics to be funnelled through a handful of privately controlled platforms. Then people act surprised when that power is used against someone whose message goes against the grain.

The real irony is whether outlets like The Independent or Dagsavisen will now seriously review their reliance on Meta’s platforms, or whether they’ll complain about the power imbalance while continuing to feed it. My guess is the latter.

ptu@sopuli.xyz on 21 May 11:25 collapse

You make it sound like Meta has no obligations at all, while their terms and conditions limit their actions as well. For example they can limit the visibility and ban users and posts that violate their community standards. It would be interesting to see what breach was made here.

xav@programming.dev on 21 May 09:55 next collapse

Bridget Jones is a journalist now ? Ah yes I remember.

rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 21 May 11:17 next collapse

Meta carrying water for fascists, as usual.

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 21 May 14:49 collapse

Meta is not the problem, all the fucking idiots using it are.

ripcord@lemmy.world on 21 May 15:27 collapse

They are all related but person-for-person, meta is worse