Over 100 far-right militias are coordinating on Facebook
Over 100 far-right militias are coordinating on Facebook
Despite bans on militias, Facebook continues to struggle with content moderation.
Sounds like an issue with their work force. Without placing my tin foil hat on they need to hire more people to moderate and clean TOS breaking content.
puts tinfoil hat on
Meta is purposefully allowing far right militias to organize because a libertarian/conservative hellscape would mean their corporation becomes one of the largest fiefdoms.
61As someone that used to work for Meta as a contractor for another company that did content moderation for them: I agree completely with your first statement. They fired all of their US based contractors on content moderation and shipped it back to India where they are overworked and don't have the cultural insight to know to take this kind of shit down when reported. They also rely heavily on AI for content moderating that was trained by contractors like myself.
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There’s way more police and sheriff’s departments on Facebook than 100.
48Took me a second to get this and I laughed but am now sad by how true this is.
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Not condoning it, but all I can think is how terrible Facebook is for "coordinating" stuff like this. I mean, if FB or the feds wanted to find out who these people are, track them down or something, they can do that pretty easily. People who do stuff like this aren't too bright, though. So not surprised, I guess.
41I think free speech is really important. As soon as you start on the path of censorship you can't stop.
It starts with censorship of the extreme and ends with only a handful of allowed beliefs.
8If you tolerate the intolerant, it will eventually bite you. Free speech should be protected, but not tolerated.
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It's not even "tracking down". It's public information that is easily searchable. It should be easy to stay 2 steps ahead of these groups planning things out in the open.
6Yeah, something like Reddit or lemmy would be way better. Make a relatively obscure community with a dog whistle as a name. Anonymous, minimal moderation, and an amount of control to keep the group think in.
But please, use Facebook.
6I only worry that FaceBook might actually cover for them and facilitate them. It's not exactly a company known for outcomes of Peace and Respect for Human Rights.
5Well, at least in Brazil Meta has been very okay with following judicial orders and prevent anything that could get them in trouble. Telegram is the one recently covering up Nazi groups and school shooters here.
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Makes them easy to find. Dumbasses.
3Waco 2 time
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Tell me again how TikTok is dangerous, but Facebook is just grandmas sharing recipes.
35Jan 6 has entered the chat
3Tiktok showing teens in US the horrors of USA is dangerous.
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On Facebook... So there's a clear trail of who is planning what and who is agreeing to go along. People with long histories of posting far right content, so when they inevitably cry "but a leftist plant orchestrated all this" there is evidence to the contrary.
28Only if FB wants there to be.
(And they don't. They've actively courted extremists since leaving campus.)
8Nah, they'd give them up when the government shows up with cash.
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Care saying "far right." On Lemmy some of the users will tell you that the Democratic party is "far right."
You don't need to agree with what they post but it should be protected under free speech. This isn't China
I also think people these days can't stand seeing anything they don't agree with. All people see is the stuff tailored to them and there is no discomfort
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The far left are coordinating on Lemmy. At the end of the day as long as they aren't committing a crime you can't and shouldn't do anything about it.
Racism is still free speech which sucks but the alternative is high censorship and fear
20Facebook is not the government though?
And why is it always "we have to respect other people calling for the erasure of the rights of minorities"? Do you have any idea how frustrating and tiresome that is, as a minority?
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Neutrality is the side of the aggressor.
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Racism is still free speech which sucks but the alternative is high censorship and fear
This is incorrect, and only serves those who target marginalized groups.
I wanna make it very clear that the conclusion that restriction of hate speech is a slippery slope for freedom of speech is not a given or universally held position
You can absolutely introduce laws prohibiting hate speech without introducing high censorship or fear. Many countries have laws prohibiting hate speech, including most European countries and a majority of, what Wikipedia calls, developed democracies.
Even countries that don't have limits for hate inducing speech towards marginalized groups, with reference to the importance of freedom of speech, rarely have complete freedom of speech.
As an example, the US limits to freedom of speech include "fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, and regulation of commercial speech such as advertising."
The claim that intolerance to intolerance is dangerous, only serves the spread of intolerance.
The paradox of tolerance states that if a society's practice of tolerance is inclusive of the intolerant, intolerance will ultimately dominate, eliminating the tolerant and the practice of tolerance with them.
Rosenfeld contrasts the approach to hate speech between Western European democracies and the United States, pointing out that among Western European nations, extremely intolerant or fringe political materials (e.g. Holocaust denial) are characterized as inherently socially disruptive, and are subject to legal constraints on their circulation as such,[13] while the US has ruled that such materials are protected by the principle of freedom of speech and cannot be restricted, except when endorsements of violence or other illegal activities are made explicit.
14It's only a bad thing when it's people I don't agree with.
8I just think today's media tends be more cult like than anything else. You either agree with the only right way to think or you are the enemy
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Racism is free speech, unless it's deemed antisemitic, then you're in trouble!
7There is no law that says you can't been antisemitic. There are a bunch of antisemitic people here on Lemmy.
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Armed extremist groups are dumb
16..but dangerous nonetheless.
At least they would be easy to eliminate, once they come out.12They’re not easy to eliminate, they’re armed, & the military & police are mostly on their side, which is why they’re allowed on Fb in the first place, & they’re hell bent on eliminating me and all my friends & loved ones
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The extremists on Lemmy scare me
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Even though these people are more that to anyone, including society at large, Capital Hill and the feds themselves, they leave them alone, still thinking they are in control of these groups: compare and contrast how they are treated and then how BLM, antifa, and college students protesting genocide are treated.
15It would definitely be wrong to find the members of these groups and share it everywhere you can.
It would also be juvenile and rude to make fake Facebook pages and sow even more chaos in these groups as a troll.
I'd hate to see either happen.
13Are you telling me The AntiCommie Paratrooper Death Squad isn’t real?
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Just for my info... any moderate militias out there? Purely informative of course.
5The National Guard, The Pentagon, the majority of Police Departments. They might be more authoritarian than your average US Leftist, but at least they don't want to start all over to establish their Rule of Law. Even Trump's generals looked down on him. If you want to do your part in a potential US Civil War then owning a gun to protect your homestead might help but the best thing you can do is report the right wing extremists as you see them. If you even hear word of any sort of encampment or compound, submit an anonymous tip to the FBI, you can expect a specialized task force to deal with it pretty quickly.
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This seems like an issue.
3A feature, not a bug.
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Isn't that a good thing? If facebook bans them they may actually learn what opsec means.
1Even though these people are more that to anyone, including society at large, Capital Hill and the feds themselves, they leave them alone, still thinking they are in control of these groups: compare and contrast how they are treated and then how BLM, antifa, and college students protesting genocide are treated.
1That’s horrible… what can I do to help them get off facebook?
0Critics point out that as a Schedule III drug, marijuana would remain regulated by the DEA. That means the roughly 15,000 cannabis dispensaries in the U.S. would have to register with the DEA like regular pharmacies and fulfill strict reporting requirements, something that they are loath to do and that the DEA is ill equipped to handle.
just like they killed safer tobacco consumption methods
now we will only have dispensaries that are able to "comply" with the rules
after four years of Trump thought the US would do better than a far right religious Catholic and Prosecutor
-2These traitor trash bumblefucks have no chance of doing anything.
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