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Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election

471 points · 303 comments · rbanffy

  1. abroszka33 · · focus · HN ↗
    I hope Lula wins and they will ban Facebook for good after the elections. This is an attack on Brazil’s sovereignty.
    1. tryauuum · · focus · HN ↗
      nothing good usually comes out of governments censoring internet
      1. ben_w · · focus · HN ↗
        In this case, the unelected leadership of Facebook is apparently censoring the free speech of a political candidate.

        I don't really know anything about Lula (I wouldn't have known this was Brazil if it wasn't explicitly mentioned, I only know from the Wikipedia page 30 seconds ago that their full name is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and "Lula" is a nickname), so I can't say if they're "fine" or "evil", but one does not simply get to disregard the implications of censorship (of anyone, let alone a political party) when it happens to be done by a private corporation.

        Especially when it's a foreign private corporation that's already deeply suspicious for political interference in multiple nations, as Meta is.

        1. tryauuum · · focus · HN ↗
          It feels like your treat the facebook as some common good, and censorship made by it thus preposterous, something which should be punished

          But it's a multimillion dollar corporation in a foreign country, to me the idea they owe you something is strange

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          Governments are still more powerful than corporations, this is why I am more afraid of the censorship of the internet by governments than of it by corporations

          1. vincnetas · · focus · HN ↗
            "Governments are still more powerful than corporations" at this point i would not be so sure anymore. especially when some of corporations have full weight of us goverment behind them.
            1. brookst · · focus · HN ↗
              Not coincidentally, there’s a word for the consolidation of government and corporate power.
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