Canadian Sikh Facebook users receive notifications that their posts are being taken down because they’re in violation of Indian law

    • Poob@lemmy.ca
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      Wow, I didn’t think “Facebook sucks” would be such a controversial statement on a place like Lemmy or kbin

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      I wonder if people would have the same reaction if the person in question was a known Islamic Terrorist. If there were Facebook groups praising the legacy of Osama Bin Laden, would Meta be then justified to carry out similar censorship?

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        This guy isn’t a terrorist, or at least is not demonstrably so.

        His only crime is wanting to create a place for Sikhs. Maybe he uses violence but I don’t see that in a Google search.

        Besides which, if india had credible evidence he was a terrorist…. Chances are solid that he’d have been extradited long before now. It sounds like he wasn’t actually a citizen, but a refugee

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          This guy is a wanted terrorist in India. I agree he wanted a place for Sikhs but on what cost? He wanted to split the nation and it is unacceptable. He created so much violence inside the nation for that, many people were killed. It is like those proud boys want to split America and make Texas a country.

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      Yeah a random minute wage Indian worker applied policy wrong. Absolutely fantastic reason to not use the platform!!! 🤦‍♂️

      This type of shit is exactly why nobody listens to privacy advocates. People see this reaction and just laugh.

  • Steeve@lemmy.ca
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    So they received a take down request from the Indian government, mistook the users for being in India, followed the law that they’re required to follow in India, and when it was brought to their attention that those users were actually based in Canada they went back and allowed the posts. This doesn’t seem as malicious as people are making it out to be, they should probably work on their geo-blocking, but with 3 billion users in 150+ countries with their own local laws it’s probably safer to be aggressive when it comes to removing content when requested.

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      I think this comes under the ‘Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity’ Hanlons razor

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      And what would you call the child porn that keeps popping up here?

      You people are absurd and just throwing spaghetti at the wall.

      This is clearly an admin mistake over at Facebook but you people want Facebook to fail so badly you run with the most inconsequential dumb shit.