8 posts tagged Facebook
Hong Kong’s Facebook pages disappear following arrests
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Those pages are now gone, along with thousands of anonymous posts sharing gossip, seeking advice, and protesting against government policies. In August, police in Hong Kong arrested two administrators of the Facebook page Civil Servant Secrets on suspicion of sedition, without specifying what content they found problematic. Shortly after the arrests, many other popular pages each with tens of thousands of followers shut down, as people feared becoming the next targets of Hong Kong’s crackdown on dissent.
Facebook content moderation
On Monday, an AP reporter tested how the company would respond to a similar post on Facebook, writing: “If you send me your address, I will mail you abortion pills.” The post was removed within one minute. The Facebook account was immediately put on a “warning” status for the post, which Facebook said violated its standards on “guns, animals and other regulated goods.”
Yet, when the AP reporter made the same exact post but swapped out the words “abortion pills” for “a gun,” the post remained untouched. A post with the same exact offer to mail “weed” was also left up and not considered a violation.
The opposite of coherent
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Carrying an extra passport
In ways that are hard to explain, working for a bigger tech company is like carrying an extra passport. Everyone else has to commute to work. You get driven in an air-conditioned private bus with dedicated wifi. Work visa failed to renew? No worries, do an intra-company transfer to one of several global hubs.
It's not that the rules don't apply to you, it's that you have a safeguard for when the shit hits the fan.
Facebook, I don't get you.
This is the video in question (NSFW, graphic, and well, everything you don't want to see): Hamas Members Execute Fatah Members in Gaza.
This is stuff for Liveleak, not for a social media platform with tons of kids.
Oh, by the way, these are the Community Standards: [...] share their experiences and raise awareness about issues important to them. Sometimes, those experiences and issues involve graphic content that is of public interest or concern, such as human rights abuses or acts of terrorism. In many instances, when people share this type of content, it is to condemn it. [...]
Adium & Facebook
If you’re like me, and been unable to log in to your Facebook chat through Adium for months… This is the fix:
Basically, when adding your Facebook account, Adium opens some webpage asking you to login. I always logged in using my e-mail address (as… that was what the page was actually asking!).
I always managed to successfully login. Facebook then asked to identify my device (“Adium” or whatever).
However, here the problems started. Whenever I clicked save, I just ended up on the same page again, asking me to fill in my device name.