• @DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    They put Dana White who heads the UFC on the board, all because Zuckerberg did Jujitsu… Jujitsu and the UFC has stange political affiliations to chechen forces Putin sometimes employs.

    They’re a hyper masculine male traditionalist culture. So it all ties back into that BS.

    They call it “Sportswashing” - using Jujitsu to slide extremist politics onto someone. Zuckerberg fell tor it hook line and sinker. Libertarian to pro Russia pipeline. Anti-woke fascism in practice.

    • @Fizz@lemmy.nz
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      276 days ago

      As a MMA enjoyer, Dana White being put in charge of anything is fucking scary. He is an extremely evil and ruthless man. He is so open about treating fighters like complete shit saying “its better to keep them hungry because then they are more motivated to preform”.

      Dana is at the forefront of Saudi sportswashing and pushing right wing culture on young men. He hooked trump up with Nelk and got Trump infront of massive influencers and their audiences.

      Hearing Zuck speak longform a few years ago I actually thought he was left leaning and a reasonable guy. But that was bullshit, the guys morals are about as strong as a wet paper bag.

  • @grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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    It’s worth noting you’re only allowed to insultingly say someone has a mental illness in relation to their gender or sexual orientation.

    Do not post … Insults, including those about: … Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like “weird.”

    Source: https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/hateful-conduct/

    Edit: and the changelog is a hoot.

  • @db2@lemmy.world
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    116 days ago

    What I want to know is who thought it was a good idea to give the kid who ate rocks at recess for attention an international platform. Hmm?

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      Is this a meme I don’t know?

      Zuck is extraordinarily intelligent. You don’t get into Harvard as a non legacy eating rocks.

      Nor did anyone give it to him. He took it by cheating the partners that made Facebook grow in it’s early years.

      • @db2@lemmy.world
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        126 days ago

        You’re correct in the second half though. It doesn’t take brains to steal, see November 5 2024.

        • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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          156 days ago

          C’mon now. Don’t do that. Be better than that.

          What we have to understand, and accept is that the election was not stolen. It exists in a broken system where only a handful of states actually have votes that matter. And this time, those states willingly voted for trump. Texas was never going to vote for any democrat. California was never going to vote for any republican.

          The few states that mattered, namely PA, voted trump.

          It sucks, but thats what happened. You can’t just call fraud because you don’t like the gerrymandering and the oppressed voting. Those are issues to address in the years BEFORE the election. Start addressing them now for 2028.

  • @SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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    186 days ago

    FB won’t even do anything about the constant bombardment of scammer profiles that hit you if you post on any public group. They are always some attractive woman (stolen pics probably) with a profile that is a few months old and 1-2 posts at best. They always have the same message “I saw your profile pic! Friend me!” or some such crap.

  • @AustralianSimon@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I think the big reason they are allowing it is because they got to cut the entire cost of having moderation with an external vendor. Not because they have an agenda or anything. Its pure dollars.

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      Nah it’s clearly ideological when you look at the details of their new moderation policies. They now allow you to call people crazy, but only if it’s because they’re LGBT.

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        I don’t think so. Zuck never cared about people, he’s cut-throat, egotistical and money/power focussed. He wouldn’t take the time for thinking about insulting the little people (non-millionaires). He’s done it to encourage more users to use the platform and create disputes/content which is cold hard cash to him. Remember when they experimented with users by showing them content that would trigger them to make them interact?

  • @AidsKitty@lemmy.world
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    It’s freedom of speech. Being able to say what you want and suffer the consequences of your decisions is what it is all about.

    • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      Except it’s not really “freedom of speech?” You can’t normally say someone is mentally ill - the verbiage is that you can specifically only call LGBT people mentally ill.

    • @metaldream@sopuli.xyz
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      Oh you mean like specifically disallowing people from calling someone crazy unless that person is gay or trans? How the fuck is that “free speech”?

      I can post some violent fantasy online and meta won’t allow you to call me crazy for it, but if you call me crazy because you think I’m gay that’s just fine?

  • ZoDoneRightNow
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    I left facebook after years of having meta not do anything about blatant transphobia and ableism that I reported to them. I got a death threat late last year and that was the final straw for me

  • @Skyrmir@lemmy.world
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    If you don’t let them speak up, how are we going to find the racists? They’re all old so it’s not like they just suddenly appeared when Obama was elected. They’ve been hiding and hidden. Bring the assholes into the light, and let’s get out the dildo of consequence.

  • pachrist
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    06 days ago

    On the bright side, if there’s a boomer who only posts bad memes about how much he hates his wife, you can say he has a mental illness.

    You could before, because it’s true, but you still can too.

  • @DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    956 days ago

    Billionaires have mental illness and have negatively affected me and society as a whole more than any gay or trans person ever could.

    • @Fandangalo@lemmy.world
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      236 days ago

      Immense wealth is not compatible with the moral life. It’s also not compatible with Christianity, but I don’t think any of them truly care about religion. The drive for greed should be a mental illness, especially when it’s at the cost of empathy.

      • @dirthawker0@lemmy.world
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        56 days ago

        “And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”

  • @Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    116 days ago

    “It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms,”

    I somewhat respect that statement actually.