Subj : Re: Social Media Censorship and The DarkNet
To   : warmfuzzy
From : shitty
Date : Tue Sep 10 2024 19:56:23

 wa> It has recently come to light that there has been censoring of posts to
 wa> the  Facebook (Meta) social network.  It has been left-leaning
 wa> censorship, where  people on the "right" have their voices and opinions
 wa> silenced as a result of  inappropriate censoring by people and digital
 wa> algorithms alike.  The man in  charge of Facebook/Meta has recently been
 wa> in the news saying that he is sorry  for what his company has done, and
 wa> acknowledges the wrong-doing.

Zuckerberg only admitted to half of his wrongdoing. He admitted to conspiring with the Harris/Biden administration to censor posts pertaining to COVID-19 and vaccines. (That's something we should also talk about in another sp00onet echo!) Zuckerberg failed to mention that he suspends accounts of people who are right-leaning for ridiculous reasons (My acct got suspended supposedly because my "activites are against Facebook's community standards.")

 wa> Luckily, there is an alternative to the standard social media places on
 wa> the  Internet via "flogs," or "free weblogs," or simply "free blogs"

I created my own social network, and I worked hard on it. I made a secure login system, a friending system, a status update system, an announcements system, and I integrated it with an open-source web-rtc system. It's a pretty nifty "social network," but here's the problem with my social network and with other "alternative" social networks:

I can't put my app on Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Because of my "free speech" policy, my app "doesn't comply with Google's community standards." The way the Google rep worded it: "Your app is prone to abuse and it doesn't include a system for users to report abuse."

Google's nice enough to let my site get indexed by their crawler, and they are fair with ranking and all that, but that's where their friendliness stops. And a social network isn't social unless it has an app on the Google Play Store.

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