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by porlune 1753 days ago
I'm going to go on out on a limb and guess that this isn't really a case of censorship, because it's not like Facebook to not tell you directly that they've removed your content. Or they go the other route and post a disclaiming "fact check" under it.. but so far as silently removing posts, and marking them as "sent", seems more likely to be a bug.

When I attempt to navigate to gnews.org the site is very slow, and I wonder if Facebook is having trouble assigning some kind of risk factor to it, then giving up, but ends up sending a "success" response anyway, whereby the front end just assumes the message was sent property and pushes it to your message cache without attempting to fetch it over the network.

edit: since this has been down voted, could you explain why you think I'm wrong?
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bellyfullofbac 1753 days ago
Probably downvoted because IMO that's a very weak limb you're going on, and the behaviour you're describing probably seems unbelievable to many users.

But well, maybe it is shitty coder(s) mishandling timeouts.

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porlune 1753 days ago
That's not really explaining why (or how) I'm wrong, just that you don't believe me.. which is fine, but not constructive.

It seems generally less believable that Facebook would censor people without telling them.

Other commenters [0] appear to believe the same as I do, and note that FB typically informs the user that their action/behavior is against the site's terms of use.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28342263

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bellyfullofbac 1752 days ago
Shrugs, I didn't downvote you.

Since people don't know whether your speculation is wrong or right (unless there's an FB developer around), they can only judge whether your speculation is plausible or not. And I guess they mostly thought it wasn't plausible.

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porlune 1752 days ago
When I wrote "could you explain why you think I'm wrong", I was expecting that people who had reasons to believe I'm wrong would respond, and would explain those reasons, not that someone would explain to me how speculation works.

If you think I'm wrong on a technical level, could you please explain how?

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