Centralized problems
Facebook has recently been declining to address why it has been deleting certain political accounts but not others. They had recently deleted Kadyrov’s Instagram (Facebook owns Instagram) and Facebook profiles after the United States imposed travel and economic sanctions on him over allegations of human rights abuses. In an article in the New York Times it said that they have a legal obligation to disabled accounts that have been confirmed to be run by someone on the US sanctions list yet they have not disabled accounts of others in the same list such as the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, and Guatemalan congressman Julio Antonio Juárez.
A company spokeswoman told the Guardian:
“We operate under the constraints of US laws, which vary by circumstance.”
“We will continue to work with appropriate government authorities to ensure we meet our legal obligations and to explore options for complying with the law in a way that maximises free expression on our platform and keeps people safe.”
Civil liberties groups are concerned that the economic sanctions imposed by the US are being used to censor political speech.
Something that would never be able to happen on the Steem blockchain, even if the Steemit UI itself were to remove it from sight or the bad whales were to flag it down, the content written on it can never be deleted and even if edited the original would still be able to be read. The censorship resistant advantage of the Steem blockchain has already proven itself to withstand anything in the past and I believe more and more people looking for free speech will be drawn to it in the near future.
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I love the part: " we operate under the constraints of US laws, which vary by circumstance" . Well there you go haha, basically completely in the governments hands to do what they want.
Indeed Steemit is a great political free zone in this way and very unique. Here we can definitely showcase the powers of a decentralized social platform.
This line is just too good, as it is often said that rules are made to be broken. Blockchain has the potential to disrupt big government and big brother surveillance.
The Steemit platform and the likes are but just the beginning, we will have to just wait and see how the entire internet is changed by blockchain
Exactly!
Indeed Steemit is a free zone of speech and it’s great to be unhindered by Big Brother but we have to take the risk in consideration too. How about propaganda of evil acts such as terrorism? As much as I enjoy this freedom I would rather not have them enjoy too
it goes two ways....sometimes that's not the best way it works for the rest of us. following you now.
and upvoted you too
Most people won't follow that crap. And once I'm done introducing my philosophy and political system in my series, people will have better thing to believe to.
The American govt. probably doesn't want those accounts deleted haha. Want the information.
right!
What a beacon of freedom, right? Totally void of hypocracy, right?
That's the land of the "free" for you!
Yes but as the US control the companies that operate within it, faceboook, twitter, google the sheep or more precisely the " idiocracy" would end up controlling decentralized especially when it comes to content.
Silly example is any top 100 music chart.
There is a fine line between freedom of speech and malicious intent.
This is the state of free speech:
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So much for freedom. LOL
Facebook indeed operates "under the constraints of US laws, which vary by circumstance as decided by Uncle Sam Hahaha
I think Uncle Sam decides what laws are applicable and those that are not.
Hahaha Good one!
FAcebook today block my fifth account lool i hate that crap
lol
Another reason why steemfit is the best social media , no bs here
Yeah i think platforms like steemit will start attracting people who love freedom of speech.
Controversial topics are so sensitive to the main public so they block it forgetting that some of it maybe what the public is just looking for.
And from my limited 6 hours on steemit I think you are better off attracting people with shitposts , that also ties in very nice with facebook users . Heck post baby pictures and get all the fucking grannies up in here while you at it.
Instant gratification is the norm , and seems real content does not appeal to the masses.
Centralized platforms will die the future are decentralized platforms and I think all the owners of centralized platforms like Mark know it and trying now with some shit media PR like Mark did where he talks about decentralizing FB just to get some attention before the downfall. The time has come where we get paid for our data and people know that they turn there backs on centralized platforms and move to decentralized platforms.
Check out this video about social media and what it is doing to society
Facebook can go fuck itself. There is so much wrong with that platform it's unbelievable. While this is on a much smaller scale and less important than the issues you're talking about being censored here, I've been having a lot of issues with them removing my posts from groups over the past 2 months. In particular any posts involving trading pocket knives, asking about prices on certain ones or trying to sell them get removed automatically. Their reasoning is that it's illegal to buy/sell pocket knives, which in the US is absolute bullshit.
Sure, there are restrictions on certain types but they're not just flat out illegal to own/buy/sell like they're saying. It's been really frustrating for me as I really enjoy collecting pocket knives and talking about them with other enthusiasts as well. They also removed a post I made about hobo nickels saying the same thing, that they're illegal to post online or own, lol.
That place is a fucking joke, dude.
Amen, preach brother preach
Agree!
"Facebook can go fuck itself" Amen brotha. 'Nuff said
Good information friend, It's true facebook to me is not a perfect social media platform because in facebbok we cannot control the content but in steemit we have full control on content and we can hide or show content with our steempower that's why steemit has edge over facebook and other social media platform's, thanks for sharing this info with us, Stay blessed
This is why I love steemit... And despite the recent flag wars, how likely is is it that you would reach even higher attention If somebody decided to flag a post due to political reasons?
Steemit is surely going to find its way to every corner of the world, because it's free and fair