Canadian Sikh Facebook users receive notifications that their posts are being taken down because they’re in violation of Indian law
In other words, “Our Indian moderation subcontractor applied Indian law to Canadian posts in Canada. Oops.”
sound like a great reason to stop using Facebook
Toss it on the pile.
Wow, I didn’t think “Facebook sucks” would be such a controversial statement on a place like Lemmy or kbin
I wonder if people would have the same reaction if the person in question was a known Islamic Terrorist. If there were Facebook groups praising the legacy of Osama Bin Laden, would Meta be then justified to carry out similar censorship?
This guy isn’t a terrorist, or at least is not demonstrably so.
His only crime is wanting to create a place for Sikhs. Maybe he uses violence but I don’t see that in a Google search.
Besides which, if india had credible evidence he was a terrorist…. Chances are solid that he’d have been extradited long before now. It sounds like he wasn’t actually a citizen, but a refugee
This guy is a wanted terrorist in India. I agree he wanted a place for Sikhs but on what cost? He wanted to split the nation and it is unacceptable. He created so much violence inside the nation for that, many people were killed. It is like those proud boys want to split America and make Texas a country.
And if the leader of the Proud Boys moved to India, I wouldn’t expect Americans to assassinate him, nor would I expect that to be tolerated.
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.
I think this comes under the ‘Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity’ Hanlons razor
If anyone needs another example of why centralized social media is dangerous, here’s one.
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