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I have run out of people to block on Facebook. Times are hard.
If only Facebook could ban my sister from posting streams of faux expertise on subjects she knows very little of of and life affirming inspirational feel good memes sprinkled with things that never really happened.
I think you're having a laugh seeing a conjunction between biden's inauguration and the swp being hoofed off fb
That said just checked the Electoral Commission register and SWP aren't on it, which surprizes me (though not sure if its relevant.
why the fuck is anyone on it
imagine the christmas banner we'd get....Just in case anyone in SWP head office is thinking of instructing your members to come here instead: NO.
In December 2010, at the height of the student fees protests after the coalition government comes to power, a Socialist Worker Student Society member comes up with a VERY hurtful chant about Nick Clegg. Deeply wounded, Clegg vows to take his vengeance, but as a master strategist, he knows better than to act in the heat of the moment, understanding that revenge is a dish best served cold. He sits back and begins to plan out the long game.Does Nick Clegg still work for Facebook?
They are back on fb now anyway.
So it's the exact same bullshit that's been happening to left wing pages on Facebook since before even Trump. Get arbitrarily suspended for no reason, with the decision being reversed later. Often this all happens with absolutely no communication happening between FB and the people being fucked about like this. I know that when videos on YouTube are temporarily suspended, it has the effect of damaging monetisation income for the uploader. But what's the fucking point of this shit?
Remember that Trump only started facing consequences for his online behaviour after that coup attempt happened. So this idea that Twitter finally bringing the hammer down once they realised they wouldn't face significant backlash for doing so, somehow represents a new era of liberal authoritarianism is just junk. Trump got a ridiculously easy ride.
I saw some very online leftists maundering about how social media like Twitter are being subject to "enclosure", which I find to be a pretty damning misuse of a term with significant historical import. Twitter and Facebook are not and were never at any point publicly owned or otherwise held in common. If you want to argue that big social media websites should be collectively owned and managed, then fine, make that argument, personally I think it's a good one. But don't misuse already-defined terms in an attempt to give your argument the gloss of historical authenticity.
This is the thing though, they started as niche concerns and have become global communication platformsTwitter and Facebook are not and were never at any point publicly owned or otherwise held in common. If you want to argue that big social media websites should be collectively owned and managed, then fine, make that argument, personally I think it's a good one.
In theory you'd hope there could be some kind of open source/horizontal way of managing such sites
What does this mean?
That's the bit I struggle with; are you suggesting access to corporate social media platforms is some sort of human right? To all?This is the thing though, they started as niche concerns and have become global communication platforms
You can definitely argue that it is a right to access them...
That's the bit I struggle with; are you suggesting access to corporate social media platforms is some sort of human right? To all?
Which branch is she in?If only Facebook could ban my sister from posting streams of faux expertise on subjects she knows very little of of and life affirming inspirational feel good memes sprinkled with things that never really happened.
A case can be made for that, not by me, but by someone who has had training in debating, yes.That's the bit I struggle with; are you suggesting access to corporate social media platforms is some sort of human right? To all?
Innit. People need to re-learn the lost art of creating and managing email lists, if they truly want their own communication channel that is 100% under their control.
email and usenet are exactly that; decentralised common protocols that anyone can host or join.There could in theory be mainstream services that were at least as independent as the Internet infrastructure itself, i.e. anyone could commission a node and join in. It won't ever happen because the interest in doing so is massively outweighed by having someone else do it.
But what happens if everyone got on mastadon and started to maliciously report each others posts, the far right start spamming it etc etc.email and usenet are exactly that; decentralised common protocols that anyone can host or join.
There have been attempts at similar approaches for social media eg. Mastodon, but of course there's no critical mass, and no commercial incentive for any of the big boys to use such an open system.
I'm honestly struggling to imagine what chain of events could lead to someone going "oh, this trot front group attempting to recruit London bus drivers, got to make sure we get them as well."At least a half dozen leading members of the Socialist Equality Party had their Facebook accounts permanently disabled. This included the public account of Genevieve Leigh, the national secretary of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, and the personal account of Niles Niemuth, the US managing editor of the World Socialist Web Site. In 2016, Niemuth was the Socialist Equality Party’s candidate for US Vice President.
Facebook also disabled the London Bus Drivers Rank-and-File Committee Facebook page, which was set up with the support of the Socialist Equality Party (UK) to organize opposition among bus drivers.
This is the problem. Twitter has become the primary source for much news gathering yet it is a privately owned monopoly.except due to the hollowing out of journalism, would be completely off radar of main stream media
"0600 hours. Radio Pilsen announced that it was "the last free radio station in Czechoslovakia".Sheffield swp is still on fb and says they have reversed the decision.
I wasn't really advocating for that, but the idea of a transition from the open "commons" of Usenet to the "enclosed" world of forums and social media does make some sense.But what happens if everyone got on mastadon