{"id":200586,"date":"2021-02-25T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/25\/today-in-evil-facebook-edition\/"},"modified":"2021-02-25T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:18:00","slug":"today-in-evil-facebook-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/25\/today-in-evil-facebook-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Evil, Facebook Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s not Zuck, it&#8217;s Sheryl Sandburg, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/sheryl-sandberg-and-top-facebook-execs-silenced-an-enemy-of-turkey-to-prevent-a-hit-to-their-business\">shut down people that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan did not like<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, it is clear from the internal communications, they did so despite Facebook&#8217;s publicly stated affection for freedom of speech, because it was more profitable to side with despots.<\/p>\n<p>No big surprise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also not a surprise, Facebook structured it to make it look like a network error, so as few people as possible would know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s not Zuck, it&#8217;s Sheryl Sandburg, who shut down people that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan did not like.&nbsp; What&#8217;s more, it is clear from the internal communications, they did so despite Facebook&#8217;s publicly stated affection for freedom of speech, because it was more profitable to side with despots. No big surprise.&nbsp; Also &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1194,969,1099,1277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-evil","category-near-east","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}