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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. anhner · · focus · HN ↗
            "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"

            Sure mate, disregard the fact that some companies make more money than half the countries in the world and are actively trying to undermine democracies, but yeah it's the government's fault for trying to protect the citizens.

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