If you're a Fediverse admin, this is a plea for you to defederate threads.net

#Threads is part of Meta/Facebook, and their track record on moderation is as horrific as it is possible to be:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ethiopia-facebook-algorithms-contributed-human-rights-abuses-against-tigrayans

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-02-20/facebook-accused-of-letting-activists-incite-ethnic-massacres-with-hate-and-misinformation-by-survivors-in-ethiopia/.

The victims of prejudice, violence and genocide cannot "block" attackers that were radicalised online. Victims of bigotry and hatred cannot opt out of being beaten up or murdered.

Please defederate Threads/Meta/Facebook 🙏

Rohingya sue Facebook for ÂŁ150bn over Myanmar genocide

Victims in US and UK legal action accuse social media firm of failing to prevent incitement of violence

The Guardian
@FediTips I can’t say I agree with this line of reasoning. Just because a tool is used in abuse against some that doesn’t mean the majority is therefore bad. If that’s true then we should ban cars because they’re sometimes used to run over people, or ban the internet because pedo’s use it. I think the Fediverse enables the correct organic approach: those that don’t like it can defederate, and if you don’t like your admins decision, change instances or start your own.

@jordan_kendrick

If an admin knows that there is extreme hate being spread on their instance, and they decide to allow that hate to spread, surely they should be defederated?

This is a consistent pattern of behaviour by Meta/Facebook right at the top:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587080/mark-zuckerberg-holocaust-denial-kara-swisher-interview

Mark Zuckerberg says Holocaust deniers are making an honest mistake

In a podcast interview, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recommitted to providing a platform for misinformation. Facebook will continue to offer a platform to Holocaust deniers, Infowars, and other publishers of hoaxes on the assumption that they are sincere in their beliefs, Zuckerberg said.

The Verge

@jordan_kendrick @FediTips

"those that don’t like it can defederate"

Fedi.Tips doesn't like it, as is asking like-minded admins to defederate...

"if you don’t like your admins decision, change instances or start your own."

...and users who want to remain federated to Threads can find servers with like-minded admins.

How is Fedi.Tips' ask different from "the correct organic approach" that you pitch?

@balladeer @jordan_kendrick @FediTips Probably a poor choice of words because I didn’t mean to imply their request was “wrong” in anyway. I like the fact that everyone is at liberty to do what they will.

@jordan_kendrick @FediTips

jordan, you need to review the parable of the scorpion and the frog. Then review facebook having settled for $725 million rather than risk going to trial, after having been accused of selling out its users' data to cambridge analytica to be used by russia to influence the 2016 election. They will sell you out. If you don't use them, don't engage, they have nothing to sell.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/19/tech/facebook-cambridge-analytica-settlement-application/index.html