If I'm reading right, the same facebook who announced a week or so ago that they where scaling back all moderation and validation around online safety, are now putting a blanket ban on users discussing such a fundamental aspect of modern technology that facebook itself runs on it?
If this is a genuine policy, I'm at a complete loss to understand Facebook's stance on anything.
Distrowatch has taken the observation that distrowatch URLs are blocked and really hyperbolized that into the broader and incorrect claim that discussion of Linux is banned. It isn't.
the "free speech" was a promise to promote right wing speech. do not mistake it for ideology.
banning left wing activism, either acknowledging the genocide in Gaza or apparently now promoting free (less surveilled) software is against what the authoritarians want so it is banned.
this is all consistent if you see it through that lens
dang's probably right that its a glitch- but I honestly believe Linux is Free as in Freedom, which is opposed by both parties but primarily the radical authoritarians in charge right now
Linux is free software, and software freedom is communist. It's also the brainchild of a Finn, and every red-blooded American knows that Europeans are all commies.
Real patriots use good ol' American operating systems, like Oracle Solaris™.
As a trans occasional-user of Facebook, I never saw any censoring of transphobic hate speech. During any administration, I was fed very many posts from nominally pro-queer visibility pages that existed primarily to bait interaction from vehemently transphobic or homophobic users. I saw everything you could imagine stated with zero repercussions from site staff or even the consensus of other users.
If this is a genuine policy, I'm at a complete loss to understand Facebook's stance on anything.