On March 03, 2022, I decided to stop writing posts to my chess blog CHESS/Male on Facebook.
Not only has Facebook turned out to be technically highly uncomfortable to sustain a chess blog.
Facebook as such has the severest censorship among the social media platforms. It also spies on the users and sells their data.
Facebook's censorship, however, is not neutral, and it does not consistently and universally apply some fixed rules.
Quite to the contrary. Facebook's censorship is selective; it is biased and ideologically/politically motivated. It is not a platform for moderated free speech — indeed, it is a political weaponization of the internet.
Innocent poetry is censored. References to the articles of outstanding epidemiologists, published in the best medical journals, are censored. Nevertheless, hate speech has always been allowed on Facebook, if it serves particular political interests.
Surprisingly, soon after I made that decision, it became public that Facebook's official policy is to allow hate speech if politically suitable.
To my mind, it is not up to some social media platform or company (Facebook or META) to decide who is right and who is wrong concerning the biolabs, pandemic, and mandatory vaccinations. It is not their business to judge who is committing the war crimes and who is not, whose information is accurate and whose statement is false.
As a supporter of liberalism, freedom of thought, speech, and journalism, I cannot maintain my chess blog on the platform that mocks people's rights. At best, I can defend freedom of speech on Facebook's platform but not develop a chess blog like an advertisement to that's platform's dubious policies.
Unfortunately, recently it has become clear that Google also maintains strong and politically biased censorship. Concerning the current unfortunate war in Ukraine, such policy may lead to hiding the war crimes of one side of the conflict while exaggerating the war crimes of the other side.
Therefore, I am forced to abandon my chess blog on Google Blogger too.
BIG TECH is weaponizing its platforms for political purposes. Therefore, presenting one's chess on such media amounts to the political weaponizing of chess.
Facebook doesn't care about politics, it cares about money. Its interest lie in profits not ideology.
That said, social media giants wield an incredible amount of power. They are able to influence elections depending on what they allow or block. Such platforms should at least be mandated to ban misinformation.
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@eintaluj saidhow is this site any different?
On March 03, 2022, I decided to stop writing posts to my chess blog CHESS/Male on Facebook.
Not only has Facebook turned out to be technically highly uncomfortable to sustain a chess blog.
Facebook as such has the severest censorship among the social media platforms. It also spies on the users and sells their data.
Facebook's censorship, however, is not neutral, and ...[text shortened]... oses. Therefore, presenting one's chess on such media amounts to the political weaponizing of chess.
@mott-the-hoople saidPerhaps it is not. Look above. My answer was deleted. I do not know in what sense it was "inappropriate". I start to feel that always when I complain about politicizing sports it is regarded as inappropriate.
how is this site any different?
Everything comes full circle eventually.
Facebook started censoring conservatives and allowing liberals to say whatever they wanted.
The result?
They started to lose a lot of users and they came up with the dumb idea to change the name to Meta and they lost a ton of money and people are still leaving Facebook.
Another example...
The democrats put an end to the USA making its own oil supply and now they are begging other countries for oil.
And last but not least....
Liberal cities called for the "Defund the Police" crap and after a little while they were asking for money to hire more cops 😄
Everything comes full circle and Facebook is dying.
@eintaluj saidNo matter what side of the partisan aisle one sits on, this situation with Facebook is truly unfortunate. Mr. Zuckerberg started Facebook to allow people to socialize in a rather unique way, and at first, it worked - - until politics and commerce reared their ugly heads. Soon after business networking and political discussion, information, and (mis) information began to seep in. Multi-level marketing companies, shady offshore business sales pitches, and political hate posts turned a once great idea into an ugly experience. Facebook management took only half steps to solve these problems and soon the government stepped in (who had little or no experience with this issue) with regulations that solved a few problems, while creating extra ones.
On March 03, 2022, I decided to stop writing posts to my chess blog CHESS/Male on Facebook.
Not only has Facebook turned out to be technically highly uncomfortable to sustain a chess blog.
Facebook as such has the severest censorship among the social media platforms. It also spies on the users and sells their data.
Facebook's censorship, however, is not neutral, and ...[text shortened]... oses. Therefore, presenting one's chess on such media amounts to the political weaponizing of chess.
I left Facebook several years ago. It was depressing to see so many of my friends and former classmates become bitter enemies, bickering over something as stupid as politics. JMHO - I wish Facebook (or Meta) would just go away! 😕
@EintaluJ
Out of curiosity, what field is your Phd in?
My daughter is working on Phd in music, her hubby already has one in Statistical Physics.
They live and teach at Federal Uni in Natal Brazil.
I compose music, just acoustic folk like tunes and put them up on soundcloud, close to 200 tracks there now. Since covid took over, we have not had live gigs for a couple of years so that is what I do now till we can get music gigs again🙂
@mchill saidGreat post. And this one sentence sums it up best -
No matter what side of the partisan aisle one sits on, this situation with Facebook is truly unfortunate. Mr. Zuckerberg started Facebook to allow people to socialize in a rather unique way, and at first, it worked - - until politics and commerce reared their ugly heads. Soon after business networking and political discussion, information, and (mis) information began to seep i ...[text shortened]... over something as stupid as politics. JMHO - I wish Facebook (or Meta) would just go away! 😕
@mchill said - "Multi-level marketing companies, shady offshore business sales pitches, and political hate posts turned a once great idea into an ugly experience. "
Right on, Tyrone!
@mchill saidI use facebook to keep in contact with friends all over the world.
No matter what side of the partisan aisle one sits on, this situation with Facebook is truly unfortunate. Mr. Zuckerberg started Facebook to allow people to socialize in a rather unique way, and at first, it worked - - until politics and commerce reared their ugly heads. Soon after business networking and political discussion, information, and (mis) information began to seep i ...[text shortened]... over something as stupid as politics. JMHO - I wish Facebook (or Meta) would just go away! 😕
None of us use it for discussions (well, nothing serious anyways).
And when used in a light-hearted manner, it’s perfectly fine.
Yes. It is irritating that it bans nudity. For example, there’s an amazing statue in Bolognia, Italy, of a woman with water shooting from her breasts, with water pouring down her at the same time, which actually looks like she’s leaking milk (under extreme pressure, I may add) whilst having a golden shower.
Now, that’s just an image begging to be shared. The amount of jokes and fun to be had (just deliberating on who the hell commissioned something like that… ) is endless.
Censored. Moronity at a base level.
Basically the same attitudes that want nude portraits in museums removed.
As for censorship on this site: if you say something eloquantly, you can basically say anything you want. But don’t bloody use Anglo-Saxon. One presumes the site’s pro-Norman or something.
Oh, and you can’t write some words which have a word deemed undesirable in the spelling. They get censored too.
More moronity.
@sonhouse saidI am a PhD in philosophy of science. Initially, I studied theoretical physics (which I have forgotten) for 5 years. Then, philosophy and philosophy of science in the magistrature for 2 years and doctorate for 4 years. My dissertation was on Hume's problem (the problem of induction). Then, I worked for 30 years as a lecturer on philosophy. I was forced to become an expert on philosophical ethics. Then, I started to protest against academic corruption in Estonian universities. As a result, I have been jobless for the past 7 years, starting from 2014, when I also protested against the politicization of universities.
@EintaluJ
Out of curiosity, what field is your Phd in?
My daughter is working on Phd in music, her hubby already has one in Statistical Physics.
They live and teach at Federal Uni in Natal Brazil.
I compose music, just acoustic folk like tunes and put them up on soundcloud, close to 200 tracks there now. Since covid took over, we have not had live gigs for a couple of years so that is what I do now till we can get music gigs again🙂
@shavixmir saidI am incompetent to know the terms "Anglo-Saxon" and "Norman".
As for censorship on this site: if you say something eloquantly, you can basically say anything you want. But don’t bloody use Anglo-Saxon. One presumes the site’s pro-Norman or something.