Facebook Says Penalized By Russia After Refusing To Halt Fact-checkers (barrons.com) 39
Facebook's parent company Meta said Friday that Russia will hit its services with restrictions after the social media giant refused authorities' order to stop fact-checkers and content warning labels on its platforms. From a report: "Ordinary Russians are using our apps to express themselves and organize for action," Meta's Nick Clegg said in a statement. "We want to continue to make their voices heard."
"We want to continue to make their voices heard." (Score:5, Insightful)
...."and continue to collect that sweet sweet ad money."
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As long as they aren't republican, and/or don't contest the American viewpoint, the mic is wide open
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Stop lying.
https://twitter.com/FacebooksT... [twitter.com]
Not the best spokesperson for truth (Score:2)
He is a former UK politician made infamous by going as far as signing a pledge not to raise university tuition shortly before agreeing to triple it, admittedly as part of a coalition government but nonetheless, he _tripled_ it. Indeed, it ticked off so many voters that he lost his seat even though he was a party leader and this is why he is now working for Facebook.
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Agreed. The story about Facebook banning everything and anything is just wrong. In fact some of the memes I see the most on Facebook all seem to start with "let's see how long until they ban this!", followed by something like "I love Jesus!" Seriously, these guys are trying to spread the message that Facebook is banning "I love Jesus", which is patently false and easy to see just by adding one "I love Jesus!" guy to your friends list and then you see them posting 50 times a day and never banned. Conserv
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I know you're just a coward snowflake so easily butt hurt, but you are just blatantly wrong. Time and time again it's been proven that social media, Facebook included, hasn't stifled conservative speech, just the opposite, it's allowed it to flourish and unfortunately the more wrong and false the alt-right information is, the faster it spreads. Then you bitch and moan about being called out for your false information that it's against your "free speech" when nearly nobody in the alt-right camp has close t
Re: "We want to continue to make their voices hear (Score:2)
I see the alt-right terrorists are out in force tonight. Good night you commie mother fuckers.
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...."and continue to collect that sweet sweet ad money."
Seems to be the opposite of what you suggest: FB is refusing the extortion.
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Such a great idea that you posted as an AC.
Perhaps Seth Moulton, Ruben Gallego, and Derrik Gay would consider the offer? Or was that not what you had in mind?
Re:"The Beating of a Liberal" (Score:5, Insightful)
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Plus also there is my son who is an active duty marine plus a woke blazing liberal and he's definitely not unique amongst the other marines he serves with.
The republicans have been pushing the myth for decades that military are almost exclusively conservative and while conservatives are more than half, they aren't a lot more than half which means nearly half are liberal.
They like this myth cause it dovetails with their delusion that one day they will rise up and murder all the liberals, i.e., more than half
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True. Defintiely in the past, generally true today. But there has also been a shift over time I feel. Maybe not in the marines, but in other parts of the military, where it's seen as being hyper-masculine to enlist and serve in an actual shooting fight. Those who get kicked out early end up still bragging about it, and are probably the thugs who give those who were trained properly a bad name.
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Slashdot...the new home for loners with Nazi mentalities.
Sanctions (Score:3, Insightful)
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The EU doesn't want to do that yet. The existing sanctions will definitely hurt them though.
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I don't think the guys with the money use Swift. The average citizens would though. When you've stolen all of the money from the rest of the country, you really don't need to rely upon Swift for bank transactions because you own the bank.
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"Blocking Russia from SWIFT would curb its ability to conduct international financial transactions by forcing importers, exporters and banks to find new ways to transmit payment instructions. Because of Europe’s heavy reliance on Russian energy exports, analysts said, there is a reluctance among some euro area leaders to take that step and risk those purchases by making doing business with Russia more costly and complicated."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/0... [nytimes.com]
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I don't think the guys with the money use Swift. The average citizens would though. When you've stolen all of the money from the rest of the country, you really don't need to rely upon Swift for bank transactions because you own the bank.
The effect of that is the ruble would lose probably 90% of its value seemingly overnight, and Russia basically wouldn't have a means to fund further production towards its war effort without turning their existing workforce into slaves whose only compensation is basically food rations. Which is pretty much the way Russia's economy worked early in WWII and shortly after the soviets were united, which wasn't so much because they wanted to be communists, but more because their money WAS worthless. Though it mi
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More specifically, they don't want to do that without an alternative option lined up an ready to go. In this next month, everyone who possibly can will be migrating away from doing business with Russia.
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The problem with that, is the instant that Russia is shitcanned out of SWIFT, that's when Russian gas and oil stop flowing to the EU. That very day.
That would hurt the EU far more in the short term, unless they can get some deals in place to start importing energy from other sources first. Then I have a feeling they'll drop their objections to that action in a heartbeat and watch Russia twist in the wind.
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This is precisely why everyone is making preparations for fully cutting of oil and gas from Russia. It's a shame they didn't prepare earlier.
and will the US cap gas prices? let them hit $10/g (Score:2)
and will the US cap gas prices? let them hit $10/gal?
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Says Nick (Score:1)
Moron who helped organise brexit referendum
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Brexit is unsurprisingly a disaster but Clegg blocked the referendum for 2 years and then lost his seat.
what censorship? (Score:3)
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Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria!
once and for all... (Score:3)
Correction (Score:2)
Facebook punished by Putin regime, not the Russian people proper.
Not surprising (Score:1)
Wouldn't want the truth to be known about Russia's attack on Ukraine. Such as Russian jets deliberately striking housing blocks, or hospitals, or firing missiles into city centers.
Also wouldn't want to hear about the number of helicopters shot down, the number of Russian troops confirmed killed and captured, or the faces of the captured soldiers being made known.
Gotta keep up the farce there was something nefarious going on in Ukraine which was trying to improve itself by working with European countries ra
Protecting Russian Free Speech, but Americans (Score:2)
when the fact checkers are paid for by the company (Score:1)
they arent real fact checkers at all. they are carrying out an agenda.