Did not expect “Linux users” to be this early in the stanzas of “First they came for the […]”

I assume Facebook runs on Linux, as does the rest of the internet?

I wish Linux distros use a license that prevents this nonsense.

(I know including ethics in a license is a bad idea, but still...)

My conspiracy theory: Meta has an AI that scans articles/the internet for threats and then adjusts the filters for Facebook. The AI just read the story that some Games companies are blocking Linux clients, because they see them as unsafe. The AI just copied what it read.

CORPO-FOSS WAR

The great prophet @pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org has warned us for this.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/unix_surrealism

I wonder if microsoft asked them to do this, either way this is something that shouldnt be ignored. Its basically direct attack and their endgoal might be to make regular people hate or fear linux. That in turn could be used to influence laws and try to ban or limit linux to corporate use only. Computers have become so integral part of society that by controlling the operating system you control the people.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-joe-rogan-facebook-censorship-biden

Zuckerberg on Rogan: Facebook's censorship was "something out of 1984"

"It really is a slippery slope, and it just got to a point where it's just, OK, this is destroying so much trust, especially in the United States, to have this program."

He said he was "worried" from the beginning about "becoming this sort of decider of what is true in the world." Zuckerberg praised X's "community notes" program as superior to Facebook's model.

Way to tackle censorship, Zuck…

The irony is Facebook is a major contributor to a lot of open source software, and Zuckerberg in particular publicly praised the "open" approach of Llama and some other projects. Buts it’s clearly all just self serving, huh?

We've been on the receiving end of attention like this from Microsoft for longer than Facebook has been a thing, if Zuck thinks this is gonna make a dent in things, he's mistaken.

Are there really that many Linux users discussing on Facebook? My brothers in Open Source, there are much better places even without this ban…

This is the first shot

Even though almost every big tech company uses Linux on the backend they don't want you to use it.

Think of Peacock not letting people running Linux be able to use their application.

It's free and open source, and the powers to be don't want anybody to have that.

You can do what you want with it if you are willing to learn about it. Governments don't like that.

I may be wrong, but I see more of this coming.

I just can't believe. wth?

I am reminded about the catchphrase for GrayJay: Follow Creators, Not Platforms

I mean they are not wrong, Linux is a very big threat of good cyber security which makes it harder for them to collect information. I am not at all surprised that Facebook views cyber security practices as a threat( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Weird and shitty, but who gives a fuck about Facebook?

How many reasons do they have to give you before you walk away from facebook?

Sure but those links to sketchy .apk games of which the ad for them involves rape or kidnapping usually are a-okay

Who hurt Facebook? This must be some unintended issue or else what do they have to do with Linux? Facebook has 0 reasons to do it

Go and read original Distrowatch post and tell me this doesn’t sound like a plausible and way more boring explanation.

• There is an ongoing US-China trade war that started 2 presidents ago.
• Mark Zuckerberg wants to fellatio Donald Trump (hence dropping pretence of social responsibility).
• Mark Zuckerberg wants to participate in this trade war somehow so he bans mentions of Chinese tech.
• Distrowatch mentions OpenKylin, a Chinese Linux distribution, gets flagged.
• Facebook support (person making around $3.5 per month in some third world country) doesn’t know difference between specific Linux distro and Linux itself, tells Distrowatch that Linux is now banned.
• Distrowatch doesn’t research anything and cries foul without second thought because Meta is evil.
• We live in everyone is dumb timeline.