Join the discussion
Write your take first — we'll ask for email only when you're ready to publish.
- Hacker News
- Why was this flagged?!by mukmuk
- Can one of the undoubtedly many meta employees reading this comment section speculate on why this happened?by mukmuk
- Hope it gets more countries to do their own thing; it's rather insane companies are dependent on social media for marketing while they control 0% of that social media and can be wiped out by some silly AI (aka cheap; you don't want Astra/Fable scanning all our photos, you use some lobotomised model which barfs out false pos/neg all day long) or Stasi Ministry of Censorship. At least locally I can just get in a car and drive up to hear what's up and I understand the laws and know what my rights are while in the US, I have 0 rights.by anonzzzies
- Drove past the club yesterday, the sign is still up with the lake joke.by hougaard
- Are the tech companies actively censoring or subtly deranking pro-Canada sentiment on their platforms? Or is this some activist doing takedowns?by wood_spirit
- That is why less capable clones of US services get so much attention at the moment.
Every time these end up on HN, someone says something along the lines of: ”I would not host in a country without 1st amendment rights.”
by niemandhier - Would be useful to know who gave the order (article doesn't say).
It could be an Insta mod messed up, a blame the AI situation, the company self-censoring, or maybe a threatening DM from the government. All of which have precedent.
Hard to have an informed opinion without more details.
by avaer - Right. Freedom of expression when MAGA, but not for others.
Who is the snowflake now?
by freitasm