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Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information
56 points by u1hcw9nx 5 hours ago | 9 comments
  • heavyset_go
    Meanwhile, when I registered a new account for a client to create their business' Facebook page, this is what I'm greeted with right away:

    - https://www.facebook.com/AnswersInGenesis/posts/pfbid034GeyN...

    - https://www.facebook.com/reel/850987304638484

    - https://www.facebook.com/reel/916364844321590/

    - https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid09ZRo...

    Facebook funds the Digital Childhood Alliance, an "anti-big tech" PAC consisting of 50 conservative including the Heritage Foundation, Morality in Media and Moms for Liberty[1].

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083283

  • actionfromafar
    New users at all costs.
    • gustavus
      Remember

      Contraceptive companies are competitors to all other companies.

      Until we meet again!

  • josefritzishere
    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
    • TehCorwiz
      There’s no law compelling them to. Just threats of retaliation.
  • bediger4000
    I assume Greenwald and Taibbi are going to report the hell out of this, and that the free speech absolutists are already outraged.
    • iamnothere
      This isn’t really their beat, but as a free speech supporter, yes obviously this is terrible. Frankly, nobody should be using Meta products. This kind of thing is to be expected from Meta and has happened before.
  • LorenPechtel
    Discuss anything sex-adjacent with someone under 18? In the climate of pedo-hunting of course they restrict it.
    • cyanydeez
      Pedos and abortions are only connected by the venn diagram of things righteous people hate and do at the same time.
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