| ▲ | bhouston 3 hours ago |
| It got less media play but the founder of the Hind Foundation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hind_Rajab_Foundation) that is going after IDF soldiers for war crimes that happened in Gaza got his Instagram account taking down at the same time, but it wasn't restored: https://www.instagram.com/Aboujahjah/ They also removed the account of slain Palestinian journalists, this time including Pulitzer winning Al Jazeera's Anas Al-Sharif - although it seems it is back now: https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx0kN5mUZDFsw7OgRiY3ElLx9DgjM... It seems that there are repeated waves of account deletions affecting those not in power and only if you raise a huge stink is it undone but only on a per-account basis. And each of these waves slowly erodes those voices. It sort of feels like a strategy. |
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| ▲ | mentalgear 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Erasure from the internet (suppression) of free speech and 'unwelcome' perspectives is just going to get wider and more subtle considering the same people/motives that are vested in Social Media are having their sticky fingers now also in "AI" chatbots. That's why it's paramount that we as somewhat privileged, informed people now chose truly open and distributed platforms (mastodon, etc) instead of keep on posting x and other zucker-SM network links that keep users in their walled zoo. |
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| ▲ | imoverclocked 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | … and what about bot traffic? The current platforms are overrun by them but seemingly only by choice. A truly open platform would be a bot playground. | | |
| ▲ | merelydev an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | That is the classic problem of decentralized networks, if it is big enough there will be spam at which point you will need moderators to sieve it out. But I think AI can also be helpful here instead of having centralized moderators we can have AI (hopefully self-hosted/decentralize) moderate your network graph for bots/spam. | |
| ▲ | AnthonyMouse 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > The current platforms are overrun by them but seemingly only by choice. A truly open platform would be a bot playground. You seem to be assuming two things. First, that there is an "easy" solution to this which is available as a result of centralization, and second that there isn't a decentralized one. The first one is pretty hard for a service which is trying to use a gamable algorithm to show you posts from total randos, regardless of centralization. As an example of the second one, suppose that your feed shows entirely or heavily disproportionately posts/reposts from people you follow and the people they follow, and you can turn off the second one for specific people. Then if you don't follow bots, you don't see bots. Replies show up if either the reader or the original poster follow the reply poster, and by default for the poster of what it's a reply to or if they choose to make it visible to everyone who follows them. Now bots can show up to post replies, but only one person will see them and they'll be at the end of the list and marked as someone they have no connection with. On top of that, the user's client can do any kind of algorithmic bot detection they want. | | |
| ▲ | imoverclocked 14 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > On top of that, the user's client can do any kind of algorithmic bot detection they want. Bot traffic is sometimes detectable only at scale. |
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| ▲ | sandworm101 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | If a platform was open then we could spin up blocklists for known or suspected bots. We created blocklists for bittorrent. We create and manage blocklists for ads. If we had direct control over our social media feeds we would create blocklists for bots too. |
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| ▲ | everdrive 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's also just paramount not to do your thinking with LLMs. There are some conclusions they'll never lead you to. | | |
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| ▲ | webdoodle 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I organized a peaceful protest in Sun Valley Idaho in 2021 on Reddit, and within 10 days my account was suspended, all my 15 years of posts and comments deleted. This was done in parallel with an operation conducted by an army of psyop bots that would try to scare people about it, claiming I was a terrorist, crazy, etc. I was surveilled and harassed by the FBI during this time as well. I've put some of this online on substack https://webdoodle.substack.com |
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| ▲ | bhouston 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The post is so vague that it isn't clear what this is about. I would suggest just creating a new reddit account under a different email? Are not the main limits to reddit accounts is 3 months age and 1000 Karma? That is super easy to achieve, no need to wait years to restore your old account. Just make a new one. You are also allowed to have multiple reddit accounts, just do not double vote on things. | | |
| ▲ | nomel 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > would suggest just creating a new reddit account under a different email? As someone banned from Reddit, this violates TOS and (for me) resulted in a ban based on some kind of fingerprint that survives cookie wipes. | | |
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| ▲ | encom 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | >holds a very conservative viewpoint Can't have that on Reddit. Honestly, getting your account deleted is them doing you a favour. |
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| ▲ | jmyeet 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Meet Jordana Cutler, Meta's Public Policy Director for Israel and the Jewish Diaspora [1], previously a senior adviser reporting to Benjamin Netanyahu, the chief of staff at the Israeli embassy in the US and party chairman of the Likud Party, who has bragged about suppressing any pro-Palestinian content [2]. [1]: https://www.972mag.com/social-media-ukraine-palestinians-met... [2]: https://archive.ph/pcbSA |
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| ▲ | boxed 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This guy? https://embassies.gov.il/multilateral-organizations-france/e... |
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| ▲ | myth_drannon an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Hind Foundation is in the same category as any KKK organization, should be removed ( one hunted and lynched blacks with false accusation of rape and murder another hunts and lynches jews with false accusations of murder).
regarding Anas - moonlighting as propagandist for a terror organization doesn't not give immunity. IDF will make sure they meet the creator. His resume:
https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/the-press-files/anas-jamal-...
Terrorist Organization: Hamas
Positions Held: Company-level Military Officer in the Artillery Company, Northern Gaza Brigade |
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| ▲ | slowin an hour ago | parent [-] | | This is absurd, you're talking about an organization founded to find justice for a 5 year old Palestinian girl brutally murdered by the IDF. To compare it with the KKK is beyond offensive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab | | |
| ▲ | myth_drannon an hour ago | parent [-] | | It's 100% exactly like KKK. KKK was about finding a justice to a little white girl brutally murdered by a black person (which was just an execuse to lunch blacks) and Hind and other organizations with fake stories have one and only one reason to exists, attempt to lynch jews wherever they are. | | |
| ▲ | tdeck 28 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | In case folks aren't aware, the Hind Rajab Foundations goes after IDF war criminals who post videos of themselves smiling while committing war crimes. The reason there are so many such videos is that these war crimes are popular in Israel. The IDF even had to repeatedly remind the soldiers to stop posting their own war crimes to social media. | |
| ▲ | slowin an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This is so gross, racist and inaccurate that I cannot believe I'm reading it on Hacker News. | |
| ▲ | kai_mac an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | This is so gross, racist and inaccurate. I must be on Hacker News. |
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| ▲ | kevitivity 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The Hind foundation has been found to have ties to Hezbollah by multiple organizations. |
