Canadian Sikh Facebook users receive notifications that their posts are being taken down because they’re in violation of Indian law
So they received a take down request from the Indian government, mistook the users for being in India, followed the law that they’re required to follow in India, and when it was brought to their attention that those users were actually based in Canada they went back and allowed the posts. This doesn’t seem as malicious as people are making it out to be, they should probably work on their geo-blocking, but with 3 billion users in 150+ countries with their own local laws it’s probably safer to be aggressive when it comes to removing content when requested.
‘Guilty until proven innocent.’
Glad corporations get the power to make these decisions.
Well they don’t, hence why they’re taking down posts as required by the countries they operate in and willing to accept a noticable false positive rate to do it.
What are you talking about?
What requirement is there in India for Facebook to ban Canadians?
I think this comes under the ‘Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity’ Hanlons razor
If anyone needs another example of why centralized social media is dangerous, here’s one.
And what would you call the child porn that keeps popping up here?
You people are absurd and just throwing spaghetti at the wall.
This is clearly an admin mistake over at Facebook but you people want Facebook to fail so badly you run with the most inconsequential dumb shit.
By paying teams of people, which fediverse has an aversion too.
I also like how you do confidently declare it’s easily dealt with engine the instances are currently fighting and blocking child porn attacks. Like it’s going on right now in plain sight and you are calling it mission accomplished 🤣.
That’s some Bush on an aircraft carrier levels of reality wrangling.
Part of freedom is that some people will abuse it.
I hope you’re not suggesting we should give up freedoms so those abusing it can’t.
Just go after the abusers, which instance admins do.
If you’re trying to suggest a solution to stop all sharing of CP on the internet without restricting everyone else, I’d love to hear what you come up with.
waits patiently
No, you should employee the team and put in place the procedures for handling it according to the law. Liked literally everyone out there doing social media.
sound like a great reason to stop using Facebook
Yeah a random minute wage Indian worker applied policy wrong. Absolutely fantastic reason to not use the platform!!! 🤦♂️
This type of shit is exactly why nobody listens to privacy advocates. People see this reaction and just laugh.
I wonder if people would have the same reaction if the person in question was a known Islamic Terrorist. If there were Facebook groups praising the legacy of Osama Bin Laden, would Meta be then justified to carry out similar censorship?
This guy isn’t a terrorist, or at least is not demonstrably so.
His only crime is wanting to create a place for Sikhs. Maybe he uses violence but I don’t see that in a Google search.
Besides which, if india had credible evidence he was a terrorist…. Chances are solid that he’d have been extradited long before now. It sounds like he wasn’t actually a citizen, but a refugee
This guy is a wanted terrorist in India. I agree he wanted a place for Sikhs but on what cost? He wanted to split the nation and it is unacceptable. He created so much violence inside the nation for that, many people were killed. It is like those proud boys want to split America and make Texas a country.
Stop with the censorship.
Stop using censored platforms.
