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Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked
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this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2025
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Their whole purpose is monopolization of advertising engagement to make money for shareholders. Collecting user data, building profiles, targeted ads, prioritizing rage bait and conspiracies and misinformation, hiding alternatives like open source software and distributed community supported software, are all in support of that goal.
Somehow I imagine that Microsoft might be involved in this, most likely through some quid pro quo to pimp its users for facebook. Its either that or its just that facebook sees linux as a threat as its not data harvesting like microsoft and facebook are, but I find it hard to believe that facebook would do this purely to protect the closed source market without also getting microsoft to pitch in someway. Why would facebook want a free operating system that doesnt harvest data to exist? Id be worried too.