Absolutely. Yet the amount of drama it still causes is bizarre and toxic.
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Facebook has a new model. They used to show users the latest content from people and groups they liked or followed. Slowly they shifted away from the latest content in favor of posts with the newest comments or posts their algorithm thinks are most relevant. Now most of the content users see isn’t even from sources they follow or like. Facebook has become a fire hose of posts from groups and individuals users may have no interest in, in hopes that users will engage with those posts. This policy is just the next step. It has nothing to do with free speech. Facebook just wants people to sit around all day posting community notes on posts they disagree with.
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I can see raising a voice and hoping to be heard as a consumer but I get it.
I’m old enough that I joined Facebook when it was exclusively available to college students registering with emails from accredited universities.
It was actually a pretty cool concept back then. Keep in mind at the time phone plans had like 200 minutes per month and text messages were individual charges added to bills, so they were essentially one off notes if necessary, not conversations.
Cutting edge technology was aol chat and chain emails.
Facebook allowed old friends to connect in real time and even share pics. It was pretty cool to see what Steve from High School was up to in Tennessee or Ashley in California without waiting until 9pm to make individual phone calls.
I got disenfranchised with the whole thing when they started moderating private groups and feeds. I could understand community rules in public groups but public groups had already lost the original scope anyways.
I miss seeing casual updates at times but not that much considering all the ads, spying and whatever else. It really turned in to a monster.
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Free speech is your right that protects you from government prosecution for expressing yourself. Effectively, you cannot go to jail or be fined for saying a thing.
A private organization cannot deny you this right: only the government can infringe on this right. A private organization does not have to grant you a platform to exercise your right to free speech: they have the right, as a private organization, to restrict what is expressed on their platform.
It’s like here on t-nation. We can ban people that abuse the system. We don’t deny them their right to free speech in doing that. They can still exercise that right: just not here.
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Whoa. I hadn’t considered that but you could absolutely be right.
Free @hankthetank89 !
Same! I remember setting up an account in my dorm sometime around 2005.
Yeah, that was off-putting for sure, but around the same time I started to notice that there was a difference between people who really cared about Facebook and those who didn’t even have an account.
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Ah gotcha. Thanks for the clarification!
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Money. As in, losing it. Nothing happened on FB that he wasn’t perfectly ok with at the time.
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For sure.
Definitely, but at the same time, lot of people believe he’s shifted somewhat in his thinking.
Here’s an example: Dana White is now Meta’s board of directors. White is also besties with Trump. Everything is weird.
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Facebook has recently launched an AI campaign with “influencers” and “friends” that are completely ai generated.
The thing is, AI generated characters cant coexist with fact checking. The AI doesn’t know what truth or fact is, it just knows what it amalgamates based on what is available over the www.
Like this:
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He’s friends with Dana White…trains BJJ… No longer a Soy Boy. He has seen the light.
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Zuckerburg is a dork. He always was and always will be. Hanging with White makes him think he’s now one of the cool kids. White is just an opportunist Swamp Yankee. This is a guy who slapped his wife in public, which is Swamp Yankee behavior. But he too wants to think he’s one of the cool kids in spite of using a piece of rope for a belt when he was growing up.
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He full on admitted to the left using it as a tool to sensor others… Hope he’s serious about this
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It’s in his DNA. He will die a dork.
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That has to be the craziest video I’ve ever seen. 
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When they stopped having posts in chronological order is what did it for me.
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I keep a side eye on my son and what he watches. He’s 12 years old.
So, he was watching that and laughing his ass of, and I completely fell out when it got to the part about eating rocks.
Hard to tell him he can’t watch that from the floor! 
He’s a funny kid.
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This was absolutely my experience
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Seems to be a lot more than just hanging out. That’s a pretty big position to give a person just to trick half the public into liking you.
But that brings up another point: The other (left leaning) portion of the population may start hating him for this shift. So he’s risking his reputation with those who loved the censorship on Facebook.