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“Facebook Is Censoring People For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon”

😂 It’s just getting to the point where I want to ditch Facebook forever but so many friends and family use it. :/ (And a lot of these people live miles and miles away, so no, I can’t just “visit them in person”. Especially not during a pandemic.)
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“LA police ask people they stop for their Facebook and Twitter account info”

WTF LA?! I don’t live in LA, and I don’t foresee any police department in VC thinking this is a good idea, but how long till police everywhere will be required to ask for social media info? It’s like we need to go back to the old days where we kept our online identities separate … ⟶
view of a police car from the side with the word "Police" visible

The Australian federal government is planning to de-anonymize the internet to introduce a social credit system to combat “online abuse” – police will have access to individuals’ social media accounts, which will be linked to people’s passports. pic.twitter.com/C2ZsYZjEGH

— LADY AMINA (@Alpha_Mind7) September 2, 2021

This was about 6 months ago and supposedly hasn’t gone anywhere, but
Black Mirror anyone?