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1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 07:31:29 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

   We applaud Meta’s efforts to try to fix its over-censorship problem but will watch closely to make sure it is a good-faith effort and rolled out fairly and not merely a political maneuver to accommodate the upcoming U.S. administration change. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/eff-statement-metas-announcement-revisions-its-content-moderation-processes

   • EloPup (elopup@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:00:21 JST EloPup

     in reply to

     @eff
     Are you under pressure now, too?
     What a statement is this?
     You „applaud“?

     I’m genuinely irritated, ngl.

   • RussianDeepStateSock (milkman76@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:00:32 JST RussianDeepStateSock

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     @eff you "applaud" any aspect of this? lmao you mean I have to keep an eye on EFF writers, as well? There is nothing to applaud here.

     Did EFF applaud fascists attacking affirmative action because they said "it wasnt needed anymore"?

   • Brian Hough (brianhough@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:05:30 JST Brian Hough

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     @eff Disappointing statement.

   • boltx (boltx@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:06:48 JST boltx

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     @eff I have mixed feelings about this.

     I understand that the EFF strives to support free speech online, which this technically supports, but the EFF should also understand better than anyone that platforms beholden to advertisers choosing to allow harmful content only results in the decline of that platform's revenue from losing advertisers, which almost always directly causes enshittification of the platform. (See: Twitter, or "X" I guess.)

   • EloPup (elopup@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:08:58 JST EloPup

     in reply to

     @eff
     Are you under pressure now too???
     What a statement is this??

   • EloPup (elopup@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:09:49 JST EloPup

     in reply to

     @eff
     Have you been hacked 🤔?

   • Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (lazarou@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:10:48 JST Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

     in reply to

     @eff eff off!

   • Kees de Kooter 🍋🍉 (kdekooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:13:19 JST Kees de Kooter 🍋🍉

     in reply to

     @eff WTAF? I regret donating to you in the past.

   • Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:26:16 JST Jonathan Schofield

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     @eff the “yes and…” approach is readily ignored by sociopaths

   • j@mastodon (jcast@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:28:12 JST j@mastodon

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     @eff

     There you go less censorship
     https://www.404media.co/facebook-deletes-internal-employee-criticism-of-new-board-member-dana-white/

     Meta is a rotten corporation, not a freedom fighting NGO. Everything they do is compromised and what you're signaling by your statement is trust in them? Are you for real?

   • ┻┻ ︵ v̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾ ︵ ┻┻ (vitriolix@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 09:00:08 JST ┻┻ ︵ v̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾ ︵ ┻┻

     in reply to

     @eff this tone is a bit... naive

   • Bas Schouten (schouten_b@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 11:00:45 JST Bas Schouten

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     @eff I'm looking forward to see ISIS and Hamas content being shared freely on their platform. Because if you're going to claim to be 'politically neutral', you better be politically neutral.

   • ShadSterling (shadsterling@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 11:52:36 JST ShadSterling

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     @eff moving their moderation team into a jurisdiction that intentionally endangers the lives of cis women and all trans people warrants condemnation, not applause

   • Phil Betts (philbetts@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 12:40:39 JST Phil Betts

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     @eff this ain't it.

   • Milos (doctor_zoidberg@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 15:33:40 JST Milos

     in reply to

     @eff Did someone hack you accounts? I've been following you for years and I find it hard to believe that this comes from you.

   • Patrick H. Lauke (patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 17:25:33 JST Patrick H. Lauke

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     @eff "We applaud Meta's effort" what, and i mean this sincerely, the fuck? you're either embarassingly naive in your take, or you're preemptively kissing the ring of fascism already

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 17:39:57 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     @eff You applaud what? Clowns.

   • Allan (allancavanagh@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 19:29:42 JST Allan

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     @eff Meta literally responsible for a genocide and you’re giving benefit of the doubt. Your motives are highly suspect.

   • thomkennon (thomkennon@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 20:46:58 JST thomkennon

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     @eff you guys have finally gone full fash.

   • Matt Papakipos (papakipos@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 20:57:50 JST Matt Papakipos

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     @eff unfollowed and wont be back. Shame on you

   • Sascha Pallenberg 🇹🇼 ♻️ ⚡ (pallenberg@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 22:12:42 JST Sascha Pallenberg 🇹🇼 ♻️ ⚡

     in reply to

     @eff this has to be one of the boldest troll attempts in the history of the Fediverse

   • Dave Howcroft (_dmh@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 22:41:34 JST Dave Howcroft

     in reply to

     @eff Are you paying attention???

   • Corb_The_Lesser (corb_the_lesser@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:30:03 JST Corb_The_Lesser

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     @eff You're saluting Meta for encouraging and monetizing hate speech and oppressing critics of American fascists posing as conservatives and libertarians. Are you that naive about the intention of the Zuckerberg, Musk, Thiel, Trump, the GOP, etc ?

   • Victor Zambrano (argonaut@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:52:10 JST Victor Zambrano

     in reply to

     @eff “applaud”?

   • Stepford Injury Attorney (sealawyer@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 01:35:11 JST Stepford Injury Attorney

     in reply to

     Don't give money to people who support Nazis and Transphobic content like @eff. Find someone on the Fedi who needs a hand. Don't reward this

   • HowToPhil (Phillip R) (howtophil@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 02:45:43 JST HowToPhil (Phillip R)

     in reply to

     @eff FFS!
     It is clearly a political maneuver

   • Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 03:00:00 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

     in reply to

     Update: After this blog post was written, we learned Meta revised its public "Hateful Conduct" policy in ways EFF finds concerning. We are analyzing these changes, which this blog post does not address.

   • thejacenallen (thejacenallen@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 03:27:41 JST thejacenallen

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     @eff oh wow fuck you eff

   • Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 03:37:57 JST Reed Mideke

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     @eff You applaud Zuck's transparent efforts to kiss Trump's ass? Really? How embarrassing for you.
     "We sincerely hope that the lightened restrictions announced by Meta will apply uniformly, and not just to hot-button U.S. political topics"
     LMAO, you can't be *that* gullible

     "Censorship, broadly, is not the answer to misinformation"
     Ah right, so Facebook could have avoided its role in the Rohingya genocide by… I dunno, community notes saying "some people think massacres are bad, actually"? 🤔

   • brianpierini (brianpierini@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 11:14:27 JST brianpierini

     in reply to

     @eff

   • clango (clango@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 02:44:59 JST clango

     in reply to

     @eff haha this sucks man

   • Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 10:20:12 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

     in reply to

     By the time we shared this statement, the conversation had understandably shifted toward Meta's dangerous new content policy. It was a mistake to project good faith onto the company, which quickly showed it was not deserving of it. For a full analysis, see https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/metas-new-content-policy-will-harm-vulnerable-users-if-it-really-valued-free

   • H.Kyllikki (kyllikki104@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 14:10:00 JST H.Kyllikki

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     @eff I have tried to encourage people to leave Meta - so far with poor results. The way they make money with people's vulnerability and increase polarization of the society is just not right.