Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day

jleyank

The internet routes around damage. If these social media companies prove they're favouring the government rather than their customers, hackers or AI will just replace them. Won't be as pretty, perhaps, but it won't block or snoop so much. These companies haven't built up any goodwill to protect them.

DivingForGold

Heh. Zuck got a call from "The King" and The King told him he better behave. Take down that site ... Zuck knows who holds the DOJ over his head ... and from where the money flows

jacquesm

I don't know if you remember the inauguration photograph but it is pretty clear that this is one big family now. To save you some searching: https://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/nieuwsfoto's/guests-includ...

CuriouslyC

Instagram is trash. Stop wasting your time.

k310

From Indivisible [0] > Today, amidst a historic day of thousands of rallies to mobilize early voting and fight against Trump’s election sabotage, Meta suspended the primary No Kings Instagram account without warning or reason. > After intense backlash, Meta made the account visible again 90 minutes into the suspension, giving the appearance that everything was normal. But it blocked the account admin from posting for another three hours -- censoring the NO Kings coalition in the middle of today’s historic day of action. [0] https://indivisible.actionkit.com/mailings/view/127823

jmclnx

This is yet another reason people in the US needs to get out and vote. People need to come out in mass to take back their country. But since most people in the US are being deluded, I expect the US will never recover from Trump and the very rich. And now for a big BS quote from the article, which we all know is false. >There is no evidence at the moment that the suspension was politically motivated

scotty79

Is it surprising? Zuckerberg kissed the ring, did he not?

honeycrispy

It's weird to me to protest no kings now when 2020-21 is still so fresh in the mind. The circumstances of today pale in comparison.

xvxvx

Do people actually expect these companies to be fair and impartial? Seriously, you may as well have a No Kings account on Truth Social while you’re at it.

kurtoid

I'm fairly certain that page is AI-written - see the paradium link in the footer

dmix

(for 90 minutes) Which reminds me of this month's HN post about Lula's FB account getting taken down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49864642 , which turned out to only be for a couple hours after some content post got auto-flagged, before being restored by Meta. But the HN thread was a long discussion about it being a conspiracy by the US government to conduct election interference in Brazil.

gfody

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams was a great read, highly recommend

weknowbetter

I'm literally begging people to start using the Fediverse at this point.

Barrin92

with the next change of administration there needs to be an investigation into every single one of these techbros and a Roosevelt treatment of the tech sector and corporate power. You've got to hand it to Thiel, at least like other people of questionable political persuasion he's already fled to Argentina, gonna get crowded there in the future

finebalance

I wonder if these free-speech absolutists will rail about this? Something tells me probably not.

jmclnx

From the wayback machine, I could not get into the linked article: https://web.archive.org/web/20261018012124/https://meidasnew...

jauntywundrkind

Mundus Sine Caeasaribus. https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/mark-zucke...

throwaway1492

> Free speech for me but not for thee Tiktok banned the account promoting a Musk documentary too. Oh how the cookie crumbles! https://www.theverge.com/tech/1013453/tiktok-bans-alex-gibne...

user982

Strange how this keeps happening to Meta: "Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil election, Folha reports" ( https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/meta-employees-said-l... ) Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by restrictions during the country's election, newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported on Friday, citing messages it reviewed. The messages also acknowledged the platform recommended the profile of challenger Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, as well as his WhatsApp channel, according to the report. Meta said the technical issues cited in the report were already public and the conversations it referenced related solely to the severity of the issues, not political interference. "Any suggestion that Meta favors one side is false," it added in a statement

paulsutter

The good news is that the protests are working. Number of kings holding steady at zero.