Papua New Guinea shuts down Facebook in test to stop 'pornography, misinformation, hate speech'
Facebook users in Papua New Guinea remain offline after the government carried out what it described as "testing" to regulate hate speech and offensive content.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-25/facebook-shut-down-in-papua-new-guinea-in-test/105092564Open linkView original on lemmy.zip
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Damn, aren't they lucky?
Good for them
It's basically infested with ads and bad AI content upvoted by bots. Even without a ban nobody should use that POS
They should start up their own Friendica instance!
Hopefully the nation of Bougainville boycotts Facebook too.
This is good. But is there really pornography on Facebook? I thought they didn’t allow it and would automatically remove links? That was years ago though. Maybe they don’t care anymore.
The best way to convince people is to say it protects children or stops terrorism.