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Facebook Said To Create Censorship Tool To Get Back Into China (theverge.com)
The New York Times is reporting (Warning: may be paywalled, alternate source) that Facebook has created a censorship tool to automatically suppress certain posts in specific geographic areas of China, according to three current and former Facebook employees. The tool was created in an effort for Facebook to "get into China, a market where the social network has been blocked." Business Insider notes that several Facebook employees have quit because of the tool: This software would give third parties, like internet service providers, the ability to monitor Facebook for popular stories, and suppress them at will. This tool is one of many that Facebook has experimented with to get back into China, where it's been blocked from users since 2009, says the report, and has never actually been used. Regardless, the fact that company leadership would even consider this approach has reportedly troubled some Facebook employees, seeing it as a betrayal of the social network's values around openness and transparency in the name of getting access to the vast market represented by China.
Ironic we can't see it either because of a pay-wall.
Sure you can. NY Times gives you a certain number of free page-views each month, and tracks them using a cookie. So just right click on any NY Times link, and select "Open Link in Incognito Window". It will work every time.
several Facebook employees have quit because of the tool
There's a lame joke about even evil having standards hiding somewhere in that quote.
Ezekiel 23:20
At the New York Times that's no paywall, that's a trench latrine beyond lies a sewerage lake slowly but surely decomposing, better just to turn away, really why immerse yourself in that lake, join it's fake journalists neck deep in shite, only able to see the instruction of their corporate advertisers. Instead just wait for some one to put up an alternate link https://www.cnet.com/au/news/f.... New York Times, sad to say, is just yesterdays corporate propaganda channel and blatant corrupter of democracy. Better off having nothing what so ever to do with them, far better off.
Perhaps the New York Times can relocate to China and become the Bejing Times it is a market they are far more suited to (if not there perhaps the liars at the New York Times would be happier in Saudi Arabia) and Facebook, well, people have been warned for years to drop it and move on. It is just the way things work with social media channels, delusions of grandeur and power and the fuckers go nutz, censoring and propagandising and monetising their users and everyone moves on, it is just the way of things.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen