Hacker News with Generative AI: Censorship

The Slop Society (wheresyoured.at)
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the company ended its fact-checking program, claiming that (and I quote) "fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created" on both Instagram and Facebook, the latter of which was shown in a study from George Washington University to, by design, "afford antivaccine content producers several means to circumvent the intent of misinformation removal
Social Media, Facebook, Misinformation, Censorship, Meta
6 points by DanAtC 7 hours ago | 0 comments
RedNote may wall off "TikTok refugees" to prevent US influence on Chinese users (arstechnica.com)
Just a few days after more than 700 million new users flooded RedNote—which Time noted is "the most apolitical social platform in China"—rumors began swirling that RedNote may soon start segregating American users and other foreign IPs from the app's Chinese users.
China, Social Media, Censorship, International Relations
9 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 2 comments
Age verification mandatory for porn sites in the UK starting July (bbc.co.uk)
All websites on which pornographic material can be found, including social media platforms, must introduce "robust" age-checking techniques such as demanding photo ID or running credit card checks for UK users by July.
Age Verification, Censorship, Online Privacy, UK Policy, Pornography
26 points by mysto 2 days ago | 31 comments
Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference (theconcernedbird.substack.com)
I'm writing this with a heavy heart and no small amount of fear. As a former X (formerly Twitter) employee on an H1B visa, I can't reveal my identity without risking everything, but I can't stay silent any longer about what I saw and was made to do.
Politics, Social Media, Censorship, Immigration
27 points by DyslexicAtheist 2 days ago | 12 comments
Supreme Court wrestles with explosion of online porn (thehill.com)
The Supreme Court weighed whether an explosion in online pornography requires repudiating the court’s precedents concerning sexual content as the justices Wednesday heard arguments in a challenge to Texas’s age-verification law for porn websites.
Supreme Court, Censorship, Online Content, Law, Pornography
6 points by classichasclass 2 days ago | 1 comments
Banning TikTok Is Unconstitutional. The Supreme Court Must Step In (aclu.org)
Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in one of the most important First Amendment cases of our time: TikTok v. Garland. Brought by TikTok and its users, the suit challenges a law passed last Congress that will functionally ban the platform in the U.S.starting January 19. If upheld, the law won’t just impact the more than 170 million Americans who use TikTok, it will also endanger the constitutional rights of every American to speak and receive information online.
First Amendment, Censorship, Social Media, Law, Supreme Court
35 points by teqsun 2 days ago | 138 comments
TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote before US ban (bbc.com)
TikTok users in the US are migrating to a Chinese app called RedNote with the threat of a ban just days away.
Social Media, China, TikTok, Censorship
16 points by segasaturn 3 days ago | 12 comments
Billionaire-Proofing the Internet (pluralistic.net)
Billionaire-proofing the internet: Scolding people for choosing popular services is no way to build a popular movement.
Internet, Technology, Social Justice, Censorship, Decentralization
26 points by rbanffy 3 days ago | 6 comments
Platforms systematically removed a user because he made "most wanted CEO" cards (eff.org)
On December 14, James Harr, the owner of an online store called ComradeWorkwear, announced on social media that he planned to sell a deck of “Most Wanted CEO” playing cards, satirizing the infamous “Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards” introduced by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency in 2003.
Free Speech, Censorship, Social Media, Business
121 points by mhitza 3 days ago | 190 comments
Censorship is what you see in China, not what they say was on Facebook (elpais.com)
In the plutocracy that is emerging, and whose consequences we can only guess at, the big business magnates do not want to put a stop to hoaxes and hatred, because that would be censorship, but they do want to combat serious journalism, relegated to social networks with this slogan from Elon Musk to X users: “You are the media now.”
Censorship, Social Media, Journalism, Media
9 points by belter 4 days ago | 1 comments
NY Post: Fact Checking Is Now Censorship (techdirt.com)
This was inevitable, ever since Donald Trump and the MAGA world freaked out when social media’s attempts to fact-check the President were deemed “censorship.”
Politics, Social Media, Censorship, Journalism
15 points by hn_acker 4 days ago | 5 comments
Let's Quit X (helloquitx.com)
Under Elon Musk, X has become a machine for manipulating opinion. Let's refuse to be complicit.
Social Media, Opinion Manipulation, Censorship, Elon Musk
144 points by bzg 4 days ago | 160 comments
Free Our Feeds (freeourfeeds.com)
With Zuckerberg going full Musk last week, we can no longer let billionaires control our digital public square.
Social Media, Censorship, Free Speech, Digital Rights
30 points by cdme 5 days ago | 17 comments
Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play (trampolinetales.com)
Mobile Gaming, Google, Censorship
128 points by doppp 5 days ago | 157 comments
Vanished from Google/Bing/LinkedIn: a rebuttal of an anti-net neutrality paper (blogspot.com)
What if something can't be found through Google Search? Does it still exist? That question I have to ask myself when I found that a blogpost I wrote two years ago can't be found anymore through either Google or Bing, though it is still listed on Brave. A LinkedIn post where I refer to the blogpost was also made inaccessible, even though Bing can still find that it exists and it can be partially read when browsing anonymously.
Search Engines, Censorship, Net Neutrality
107 points by vldr 5 days ago | 30 comments
I deleted my social media accounts (asylumsquare.com)
In case you missed it: Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Meta is ditching its fact-checkers (check out the video here). As if that wasn’t enough, he casually mentioned that Meta is teaming up with Trump to fight EU regulations affecting their platforms.
Social Media, Meta, Censorship
395 points by joemanaco 5 days ago | 481 comments
On Misery (mcfunley.com)
Mark Zuckerberg is in the middle of a coordinated-if-haphazard heel turn, removing tampons from mens’ rooms and welcoming slurs back to his platforms.
Social Media, Censorship, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Platforms
14 points by mcfunley 5 days ago | 3 comments
Meta is ushering in a 'world without facts', says Nobel peace prize winner (theguardian.com)
The Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa has said Meta’s decision to end factchecking on its platforms and remove restrictions on certain topics means “extremely dangerous times” lie ahead for journalism, democracy and social media users.
Meta, Social Media, Journalism, Democracy, Censorship
16 points by zfg 7 days ago | 15 comments
Vancouver strip club marquee cited as hate speech on X (cbc.ca)
Vancouver, Social Media, Hate Speech, Censorship
14 points by herodotus 7 days ago | 0 comments
MacStories Won't Stand for Meta's Dehumanizing and Harmful Moderation Policies (macstories.net)
Just over two years ago, MacStories left Twitter behind. We left when Elon Musk began dismantling the company’s trust and safety infrastructure, allowing hateful speech and harassment on the platform. Meta is now doing the same thing with Threads and Instagram, so we’re leaving them behind, too.
Social Media, Content Moderation, Online Communities, Censorship, Ethics
12 points by 8bitbeep 7 days ago | 0 comments
Meta's dehumanizing new speech policies for trans people (platformer.news)
"A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it," reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram
Meta, Social Media, Transgender Issues, Censorship, Online Policy
11 points by latexr 7 days ago | 0 comments
Leaked Doc: New Rules Allow Slurs on Facebook, Meta Platforms (theintercept.com)
Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and gender identities, training materials obtained by The Intercept reveal.
Social Media, Censorship, Discrimination
5 points by latexr 8 days ago | 0 comments
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post "Mexican Immigrants Are Trash" (theintercept.com)
Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and gender identities, training materials obtained by The Intercept reveal.
Social Media, Censorship, Free Speech, Discrimination, Ethics
26 points by jsheard 8 days ago | 5 comments
TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale (afterbabel.com)
Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether it should step in to block or delay the implementation of a law that would ban TikTok from operating in the U.S. If not blocked, the law will force TikTok to cease operations in the U.S. on January 19, unless its Chinese corporate owner (Bytedance) sells to a buyer not controlled by a foreign adversary.
Social Media, Law, China, Censorship
11 points by paulpauper 8 days ago | 1 comments
Calling women 'household objects' now permitted on Facebook (cnn.com)
Social Media, Censorship, Free Speech, Gender Issues, Facebook
29 points by SigmundurM 10 days ago | 33 comments
Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness' (wired.com)
Meta announced a series of major updates to its content moderation policies today, including ending its fact-checking partnerships and “getting rid” of restrictions on speech about “topics like immigration, gender identity and gender” that the company describes as frequent subjects of political discourse and debate.
Social Media, Censorship, LGBTQ+ Rights, Free Speech
30 points by choult 10 days ago | 22 comments
Elon Musk announces 'algorithm tweak' to tamp down 'negativity' on X (nypost.com)
X owner Elon Musk said his social media platform will launch an “algorithm tweak” to tamp down rampant negativity on the site.
Social Media, Elon Musk, Censorship, Artificial Intelligence
11 points by thehrfairplay 10 days ago | 4 comments
Washington Post Cartoonist Quits After Jeff Bezos Cartoon Is Killed (nytimes.com)
Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post, said on Friday evening that she was resigning after the newspaper’s opinions section rejected a cartoon depicting The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Donald J. Trump.
Politics, Media, Censorship, Journalism
19 points by JumpCrisscross 10 days ago | 1 comments
Zuck: It's time to get back to our roots around free expression (instagram.com)
Social Media, Free Speech, Censorship
13 points by Dig1t 11 days ago | 1 comments
Meta gets rid of fact checkers and says it will reduce 'censorship' (cnn.com)
Meta, Social Media, Censorship, Fact Checking
44 points by sampo 11 days ago | 13 comments