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1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 22:31:26 UTC Electronic Frontier Foundation

   We applaud Meta’s efforts to try to fix its over-censorship problem but will watch closely to make sure it is a good-faith effort and rolled out fairly and not merely a political maneuver to accommodate the upcoming U.S. administration change. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/eff-statement-metas-announcement-revisions-its-content-moderation-processes

   • EloPup (elopup@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 23:00:20 UTC EloPup

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     @eff
     Are you under pressure now, too?
     What a statement is this?
     You „applaud“?

     I’m genuinely irritated, ngl.

   • RussianDeepStateSock (milkman76@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 23:00:26 UTC RussianDeepStateSock

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     @eff you "applaud" any aspect of this? lmao you mean I have to keep an eye on EFF writers, as well? There is nothing to applaud here.

     Did EFF applaud fascists attacking affirmative action because they said "it wasnt needed anymore"?

   • Brian Hough (brianhough@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 23:05:29 UTC Brian Hough

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff Disappointing statement.

   • boltx (boltx@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 23:06:43 UTC boltx

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     @eff I have mixed feelings about this.

     I understand that the EFF strives to support free speech online, which this technically supports, but the EFF should also understand better than anyone that platforms beholden to advertisers choosing to allow harmful content only results in the decline of that platform's revenue from losing advertisers, which almost always directly causes enshittification of the platform. (See: Twitter, or "X" I guess.)

   • EloPup (elopup@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 23:08:58 UTC EloPup

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff
     Are you under pressure now too???
     What a statement is this??

   • EloPup (elopup@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 23:09:46 UTC EloPup

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff
     Have you been hacked 🤔?

   • Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (lazarou@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 23:10:44 UTC Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff eff off!

   • Kees de Kooter 🍋🍉 (kdekooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 23:13:18 UTC Kees de Kooter 🍋🍉

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff WTAF? I regret donating to you in the past.

   • Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 23:26:16 UTC Jonathan Schofield

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff the “yes and…” approach is readily ignored by sociopaths

   • j@mastodon (jcast@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 23:28:08 UTC j@mastodon

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff

     There you go less censorship
     https://www.404media.co/facebook-deletes-internal-employee-criticism-of-new-board-member-dana-white/

     Meta is a rotten corporation, not a freedom fighting NGO. Everything they do is compromised and what you're signaling by your statement is trust in them? Are you for real?

   • v̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾ (vitriolix@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 00:00:05 UTC v̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff this tone is a bit... naive

   • Bas Schouten (schouten_b@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 02:00:44 UTC Bas Schouten

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     @eff I'm looking forward to see ISIS and Hamas content being shared freely on their platform. Because if you're going to claim to be 'politically neutral', you better be politically neutral.

   • ShadSterling (shadsterling@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 02:52:40 UTC ShadSterling

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     @eff moving their moderation team into a jurisdiction that intentionally endangers the lives of cis women and all trans people warrants condemnation, not applause

   • Phil Betts (philbetts@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 03:40:36 UTC Phil Betts

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff this ain't it.

   • Milos (doctor_zoidberg@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 06:33:37 UTC Milos

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff Did someone hack you accounts? I've been following you for years and I find it hard to believe that this comes from you.

   • Patrick H. Lauke (patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:25:32 UTC Patrick H. Lauke

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff "We applaud Meta's effort" what, and i mean this sincerely, the fuck? you're either embarassingly naive in your take, or you're preemptively kissing the ring of fascism already

   • Allan (allancavanagh@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 10:29:40 UTC Allan

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     @eff Meta literally responsible for a genocide and you’re giving benefit of the doubt. Your motives are highly suspect.

   • thomkennon (thomkennon@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 11:46:57 UTC thomkennon

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff you guys have finally gone full fash.

   • Matt Papakipos (papakipos@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 11:57:50 UTC Matt Papakipos

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff unfollowed and wont be back. Shame on you

   • Sascha Pallenberg 🇹🇼 (pallenberg@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 13:12:38 UTC Sascha Pallenberg 🇹🇼

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff this has to be one of the boldest troll attempts in the history of the Fediverse

   • Dave Howcroft (_dmh@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 13:41:31 UTC Dave Howcroft

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff Are you paying attention???

   • Corb_The_Lesser (corb_the_lesser@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 15:30:04 UTC Corb_The_Lesser

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff You're saluting Meta for encouraging and monetizing hate speech and oppressing critics of American fascists posing as conservatives and libertarians. Are you that naive about the intention of the Zuckerberg, Musk, Thiel, Trump, the GOP, etc ?

   • Victor Zambrano (argonaut@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 15:52:08 UTC Victor Zambrano

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff “applaud”?

   • Stepford Injury Attorney (sealawyer@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 16:35:07 UTC Stepford Injury Attorney

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     Don't give money to people who support Nazis and Transphobic content like @eff. Find someone on the Fedi who needs a hand. Don't reward this

   • HowToPhil (Phillip R) (howtophil@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 17:45:43 UTC HowToPhil (Phillip R)

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     @eff FFS!
     It is clearly a political maneuver

   • Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 17:59:57 UTC Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Update: After this blog post was written, we learned Meta revised its public "Hateful Conduct" policy in ways EFF finds concerning. We are analyzing these changes, which this blog post does not address.

   • Confrontation Jacen (thejacenallen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 18:27:40 UTC Confrontation Jacen

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     @eff oh wow fuck you eff

   • Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 18:37:56 UTC Reed Mideke

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff You applaud Zuck's transparent efforts to kiss Trump's ass? Really? How embarrassing for you.
     "We sincerely hope that the lightened restrictions announced by Meta will apply uniformly, and not just to hot-button U.S. political topics"
     LMAO, you can't be *that* gullible

     "Censorship, broadly, is not the answer to misinformation"
     Ah right, so Facebook could have avoided its role in the Rohingya genocide by… I dunno, community notes saying "some people think massacres are bad, actually"? 🤔

   • brianpierini (brianpierini@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 02:14:30 UTC brianpierini

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     @eff

   • clango (clango@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 17:44:57 UTC clango

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     • Electronic Frontier Foundation

     @eff haha this sucks man

   • Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 01:20:08 UTC Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     By the time we shared this statement, the conversation had understandably shifted toward Meta's dangerous new content policy. It was a mistake to project good faith onto the company, which quickly showed it was not deserving of it. For a full analysis, see https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/metas-new-content-policy-will-harm-vulnerable-users-if-it-really-valued-free

   • H.Kyllikki (kyllikki104@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 05:09:58 UTC H.Kyllikki

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     @eff I have tried to encourage people to leave Meta - so far with poor results. The way they make money with people's vulnerability and increase polarization of the society is just not right.