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:
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 🙏
@FediTips I’m a bit skeptical of this interpretation. Is the assumption that Threads will have worse moderation than your average Mastodon instance? If so, I find that difficult to believe.
Or is it a problem of scale — to many posts to reasonably moderate? In that case the argument seems to be that no fediverse instance should ever be that large. That’s a fair position that I’ve heard before, but it’s far from being a consensus position among fediverse and Mastodon users and admins.
Facebook/Meta/Threads have a 20 year record of the worst possible decisions on moderation.
A leaked internal memo shows F/M/T knew at the highest level that their policies would get people killed and they would carry on doing these policies regardless:
They knew, they carried on, they've never changed. They need to be defederated.
Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” and other growth techniques are justified by the company’s connecting of people.
Another specific example, Zuckerberg famously said that Holocaust deniers should be allowed to post their lies. He called such denial an honest mistake.
This is directly quoted from Zuckerberg:
"I find (Holocaust denial) deeply offensive. But at the end of the day, I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don’t think that they’re intentionally getting it wrong."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587080/mark-zuckerberg-holocaust-denial-kara-swisher-interview
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.
@kentenmakto @ocdtrekkie @FediTips @wonkeythemonkey
The odd thing is that billionaires seem to keep wanting for a lot of things, including more billions.
And they seem to fear so deeply anything getting in the way of keeping their billions and getting more billions that they’re willing to let (or make) other people suffer all sorts of exploitation, harm, and death.
For the sake of people and planet, we really should do everything we can to stop creating billionaires. They’re dangerous.
@kentenmakto @ocdtrekkie @FediTips @wonkeythemonkey
Yep.
It is strange how wealth addiction seems to cause widespread suffering for others, on a scale far greater than any other addiction.
Many of us less affluent still suffer from consumptionism / consumerism and the addictive nature of spending. And we’re in this bind where our political-economic system has been structured so that we almost all need to spend to survive, and sell our labour to be able to spend.
Quite a predicament.
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