Anyone else remember when the Bush administration considered people who read Linux Journal to be targeted for extra surveillance because they labelled Linux Journal an extremist forum for merely discussing the existence of Tor and Tails?

Pepperidge Farm 'members.

Further, anyone else remember when the Bush admin pushed Total Information Awareness, a program that was collecting the kind of information on US citizens that those same citizens give away freely to Facebook without needing to be surveilled?

We 'member that, too.

the real malware is facebook

Linux ban on discussing Facebook.

No fucking way, this is absurd.

Meanwhile

Just ban meta and x on the whole fucking site

been noticing this too in linux fb groups i am in. peoples’ posts linking distrowatch are getting banned.

I reckon, given the extent of voluntary submission to constant surveilance from corporations and the continued march deeper into oligarchy, that it’s only a matter of time until platforms that aren’t explicitly anti-privacy are going to be reframed as extremist and dangerous as a part of the global political conversation. Perhaps this will end up being the leading edge of that.

Is there another example of this happening in Facebook aside for the openKylin post? I looked around and every article is only talking about this specific DistroWatch issue.

I bet they banned distrowatch.com, use https://distrowatch.org/ instead. Sadly they give up distrowat.ch

I just tested it out. Nothing so far

Discussing a specific linux distribution is not “discussing linux”.

Linking to a post on another website about a linux distribution isn’t either.