Canadian Sikh Facebook users receive notifications that their posts are being taken down because they’re in violation of Indian law

  • @Steeve@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    So they received a take down request from the Indian government, mistook the users for being in India, followed the law that they’re required to follow in India, and when it was brought to their attention that those users were actually based in Canada they went back and allowed the posts. This doesn’t seem as malicious as people are making it out to be, they should probably work on their geo-blocking, but with 3 billion users in 150+ countries with their own local laws it’s probably safer to be aggressive when it comes to removing content when requested.

    • @blackfire@lemmy.world
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      410 months ago

      I think this comes under the ‘Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity’ Hanlons razor