Facebook admits that the Linux topic crackdown was 'in error' and has been fixed

I think this was a AI ‘generated’ ban, no human was involved at Facebook until the marketing department started asking questions.

Of course; that means their AI ban bot has been fed a crockload of crap in training data. Really reassuring.

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When the ban falls on a disadvantaged group with less power than the people whose product powers Facebook, it doesn’t get the attention to get fixed… This should be a wake-up call, in my opinion.

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https://lwn.net/Articles/1006859/

Wow, that was overreaching.

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What, nobody blamed Microsoft? There was a time when in most of the tech related forums the first thing said, and with good reason, was that Microsoft was behind X, Y and Z attacks and misrepresentations. After all, Community Notes method of voting went so well for the ISO that MSOOXML got voted through with flying colors. In the old days it was called Stacking the Deck.
Since it was just a virus scanner, those are hardly ever wrong, flagging a file then triggering the whole site be shut down, seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do when your customers are considered as dirt.
Good for distrowatch dumping fb.

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The government runs on Microsoft… So I doubt they’ll do anything.


Maybe a way to save money would be to remove MS from all agencies and replace it with a Linux distro :tada: At least it wouldn’t cost me money to exercise my first amendment right :money_mouth_face:

I have submitted my share of documents to the local, state and federal government… they only take MS based documents, which is :poop:

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You want to get really pissed, look up and read about the attempted move by the US State of Massachusetts to ODF( Open Document Format ) and how MS created OOXML( originally MS-OOXML ) then paid their partners to stuff the ballots of the ISO to get their unsupportable MS-OOXML an international standard. Also lined the pockets of a few MA representatives along the way.
It started out as a desire to keep public records open to the public without having to pay a corporation for the right to be able to read and create public documents.

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I think the frustration is pretty much endless. I limited my response. :call_me_hand:

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