(Kate O’Neil) Opinion: The 2009 vs. 2019 profile picture trend may or may not have been a data collection ruse to train its facial recognition algorithm. But we can’t afford to blithely play along.
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Facebook Bans Conservatives and Encourages Users to Condemn Them | #RememberAlexJones — Victim of Facebook’s Thought Police
(Justin Deschamps) An unprecedented development in modern-day censorship has occurred, Facebook wants you condemn users they ban. Heretofore, Big Tech censored users by banning them from their platforms. While some bans are quite obviously political in nature (Deep State censorship), social media platforms retain the right to remove content that is actually dangerous or illegal, such as live streaming a rape or murder. But with Alex Jones, and several others, there is no evidence of any danger, other than the fact they use the social media platform to talk about things the establishment wants to keep quiet. You might not like Jones, you might think he’s crazy, but he isn’t dangerous, and he certainly isn’t doing anything illegal.