Meta's Oversight Board wants a prime minister banned from Facebook and Instagram

Meta's Oversight Board – the quasi-independent body the social networking giant established to review content moderation decisions – has recommended a national leader be banned from Facebook and Instagram for six months for promoting political violence. It has overridden a decision not to take down videos in which Cambodian …

[ChoHag]

Why do facebook get carte blanche to take over the word meta but we still insist on calling google google?

[DS999]

Let them have the word

It just serves to remind everyone Zuck is so stupid he not only believed "the metaverse" would become a thing, but believed it so hard he changed the company's name!

[Jellied Eel]

Re: Let them have the word

It just serves to remind everyone Zuck is so stupid he not only believed "the metaverse" would become a thing

He didn't read Snowcrash carefully enough. MetaFace or FaceMelta may own some of their IP and trade dress, but they don't control the language, yet.

As for this story, social media companies have banned presidents, so what's the problem? Their house, their rules. Well, unless they conflict with other people's rules, which is where getting political gets risky. But fear not, don't they still have Nick Clegg to explain all this stuff?

[Blackjack]

Re: Let them have the word

VRChat exists, Second Life us somehow still a thing.

Is not that a shared Virtual Reality is impossible, is big companies stupid version of Virtual Realities that people do not like.

Also VRChat and Second Life can be used without VR equipment so that lowers the cost of entry by a lot.

[Michael Wojcik]

Re: Let them have the word

is big companies stupid version of Virtual Realities that people do not like

People haven't exactly flocked to VRChat or Second Life either. It seems many people aren't interested in VR, full stop. Ugly, sad VR advertising doesn't help, certainly, but I haven't seen any reason to believe VR will ever be more than a niche market.

[Pascal Monett]

"quit Facebook and said he may block the service in Cambodia"

So, ragequit followed by petty revenge.

What charming qualities for a political leader.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "quit Facebook and said he may block the service in Cambodia"

blocking Facebook will enhance the quality of living and ensure next election will get the CCP 110% of the votes, at a minimum.

[RPF]

Re: "quit Facebook and said he may block the service in Cambodia"

Hun Sen is Cambodia's Putin.

[Ken Hagan]

Re: "quit Facebook and said he may block the service in Cambodia"

Sine he is ex-Khmer Rouge, it is probably fairer to say he is Cambodia's Pooh Bear.

[M.V. Lipvig]

Re: "quit Facebook and said he may block the service in Cambodia"

Winnie the Putin Bear?

[DubyaG]

Time to make a change?

Perhaps he should move to Truth Social and join up with another autocratic jerk.

[flayman]

The post is newsworthy

Rather than take the post down, it should be replaced with a bulletin which explains that the post was inciting violence and that the user has been banned for an appropriate period for breaching Meta's Violence and Incitement Community Standard. If you simply remove the post, then you are failing to draw attention to the violation. The fact that there was a threat of violence is, in and of itself, newsworthy. There may be value in leaving the videos there as documentary evidence. The threat is lessened in this context. It does not serve its original purpose as incitement.