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Well, yes. People have been complaining that Facebook and twitter will protect certain kinds of abuse while removing other people for complaining about it for a while. It is known that reporting systems can be manipulated by politically motivated reports. That's the side effect of the ongoing culture war; before people showing up at the Capitol with zip ties, it was people searching Facebook for burlesque acts to maliciously report. Or using the "real names" policy against trans people.

It was never going to be possible to be neutral forever in the culture war. Which is why people were asking for Facebook to pick sides earlier, and deliberately, before e.g. the Rohingya genocide.




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