"Meta keeps insisting that it will not promote 'political' content on Threads"

"How the hell do they define 'political' content?"

As a queer Arab woman I ask, how do you shy away from politics when your very existence is political in your context?

Good read from @mmasnick -

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/29/metas-plans-to-downplay-political-content-is-itself-a-political-decision/

Meta’s Plans To Downplay Political Content Is, Itself, A Political Decision

Politics is messy, and you get the feeling that a lot of internet companies want nothing to do with “politics” of any kind. Back in 2019 Twitter (when it was still Twitter) decided to ban all polit…

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@alshafei @mmasnick It's a bit like the white cis het guy saying, "Why can't we all just be *people*?"

@alshafei @mmasnick
- is wealfare political?
- is social security political?
- are rents political?
- is university funding political?
- is gas/electricity/gasoline prices political?
- is climate change political?
- is police/military/militia political?

What isn't political by some aspect?

Meta will lose the fight on this hill.