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No, Facebook is Not Censoring "Linux", Only "DistroWatch".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOdMTS6XVu4



I'm not watching a 20 minute video on the topic, but there is a user in an HN comment[1] stating links to debian.org and qubes-os.org were removed by facebook.

[1] https://hackernews.hn/item?id=42840143


Thus Facebook is not censoring Linux discussions or Linux content, what DistroWatch claimed, it blocks linking to what Facebook deems as malicious links (correctly or incorrectly), something a lot of software does these days.

This is what the yanks call "a complete nothing-burger".


It's a shame that this is one of the only accurate top-level comments and it's downvoted to hell.


I think the complaint is that it's not really a "comment", so much as it's a link to Bryan's own 20 minute video talking about it. It comes off as an annoying bit of self-promotion.

Though I will admit that Bryan is just a deeply unlikable human who is generally under-informed-at-best on any given subject that he's talking about, so people might be looking at it more cynically than if someone else posted it.


Fair enough.


I don’t have the ability to watch 20 minutes of Bryan Lunduke and keep my lunch, so is there a tl;dr of this?

It’s still kind of dumb for them to block Distrowatch regardless. I guess it’s just a bit of automation that wasn’t tuned correctly?

ETA:

I just saw the username. lol.


Don't feel bad for insulting Bryan to his face. It's the correct response.


No personal attacks, please.

https://hackernews.hn/newsguidelines.html


I didn’t say I felt bad.




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