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https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-blocked-internal-ios-apps
Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release “dogfood” (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps, like one for transportation. Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we’re told, as the affected apps simply don’t launch on employees’ phones anymore.

The shutdown comes in response to news that Facebook has been using Apple’s program for internal app distribution to track teenage customers with a “research” app.

That app, revealed yesterday by TechCrunch, was distributed outside of the App Store using Apple’s enterprise program, which allows developers to use special certificates to install more powerful apps onto iPhones. Those apps are only supposed to be used by a company’s employees, however, and Facebook had been distributing its tracking app to customers. Facebook later said it would shut down the app.

This poses a huge issue for Facebook. While Apple provides other tools a company can use to install apps internally, Apple’s enterprise program is the main solution for widely distributing internal apps and services. In an email, a Facebook spokesperson said “I can confirm that this affects our internal apps.”

In a statement given to Recode, Apple said that Facebook was in “clear breach of their agreement with Apple.” Any developer that breaches that agreement, Apple said, has their distribution certificates revoked, “which is what we did in this case to protect our users and their data.” Apple declined to comment on shutting down all of Facebook’s internal apps in an email to The Verge.

Revoking a certificate not only stops apps from being distributed on iOS, but it also stops apps from working. And because internal apps by the same organization or developer may be connected to a single certificate, it can lead to immense headaches like the one Facebook now finds itself in where a multitude of internal apps have been shut down.

Apple and Facebook have already been bickering over privacy, but this is the first instance of Apple taking an action that directly shuts down some of Facebook’s activities. Last March, Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized Facebook’s handling of the Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal, saying, “I wouldn’t be in this situation” if he were running the company. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg later said the comments were “extremely glib” and spoke of Apple as a company that “work hard to charge you more.”
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Facebook bans Britain's far-right hate groups
By Martyn Landi
April 19, 2019 — 8.10am
www.smh.com.au

Facebook bans Britain's far-right hate groups

The banned groups, which also includes Britain First and the National Front as well as key members of their leadership, have been removed.
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London: Facebook has banned far-right groups including the British National Party (BNP) and the English Defence League (EDL) from having any presence on the social network for violating the site's rules around promoting hate and violence.
The banned groups, which also includes Knights Templar International, Britain First and the National Front as well as key members of their leadership, have been removed from both Facebook and Instagram.
The social network's policy does not allow groups or individuals which engage in "terrorist activity, organised hate, mass or serial murder, human trafficking or organised violence or criminal activity".
Facebook said it uses an extensive process to determine which people or groups it designates as dangerous, using signals such as whether they have used hate speech, and called for or directly carried out acts of violence against others based on factors such as race, ethnicity or national origin.
"Individuals and organisations who spread hate, or attack or call for the exclusion of others on the basis of who they are, have no place on Facebook," a spokeswoman for the social network said.
"Under our dangerous individuals & organisations policy, we ban those who proclaim a violent or hateful mission or are engaged in acts of hate or violence. The individuals and organisations we have banned today violate this policy, and they will no longer be allowed a presence on Facebook or Instagram.
"Posts and other content which expresses praise or support for these figures and groups will also be banned. Our work against organised hate is ongoing and we will continue to review individuals, organisations, pages, groups and content against our community standards."
Praise and support by others for any of the groups or individuals named by Facebook will also no longer be allowed on either social platform.
In February, Facebook announced a permanent ban for far-right activist Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, for behaving "in ways that violate our policies around organised hate".
PA

I am sure this is meant to be irony when the reason given is: "the site's rules around promoting hate and violence".
Now all they have to do is ban:
  1. Muslim supremacists and separatists that go on about the "kuffar", and which advocate "al wala wal bara", stoning of adulterers and tossing poofters offa tall buildings.
  2. Radical feminists who hate all men
  3. Radical any thing other than Caucasians who hate....Caucasians
  4. Most of China
  5. Most of India
  6. All of Pakistan
  7. Most of Arabia.
And define hate speech.
As many many other KFers have noted, any disagreement with those of chronic outrage is considered by the chronically outraged to be hate speech. Fuck only knows what their private lives must be like.
It's a pity they did not turn their efforts to actually trying to make their shithole corner of the earth a little better. For themselves and stop worrying what other people think.
I'm now off to eat a choc Easter bunny. The bown choc ones first.
Whose gonna report me to facebook?
 
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Facebook can do what it wants to with it's platform.

This includes being a a bunch of hypocritical douchebags that will strike down some edgy idiot's page with a swastika on their profile, but turn a blind eye to muslims calling for the destruction of western civilization. I don't agree with it, but let the market decide if they want such a thing.

On another note, I wonder if they realize that doing shit like this just drives such groups underground where it's harder to keep an eye on them? Oh well...
 
Coldgrip said:
Facebook can do what it wants to with it's platform.

This includes being a a bunch of hypocritical douchebags that will strike down some edgy idiot's page with a swastika on their profile, but turn a blind eye to muslims calling for the destruction of western civilization. I don't agree with it, but let the market decide if they want such a thing.

On another note, I wonder if they realize that doing shit like this just drives such groups underground where it's harder to keep an eye on them? Oh well...
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Agree with you. People just migrate to Gab or Discord or whatever.
I saw one article on a tech site that gave instructions on how to live stream and not use facebook. People will always find a work around.
As it is, you would have to be an idiot to use facebook or twitter or whatever.
And like ICametoLurk said, BNP died years ago. facebook and other groups are nothing now. the XRW have transformed so as to be part of the mainstream. Is facebook going to ban the Tories for being XRW and the Labour party for being anti-semites?
 
LinuxVoid said:
That statement doesn't really work when most westerners use faceberg.
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Or may be most westerners are one or other type of idiot? But I was not making a literal assertion of idiotracy.
Anyway, because most folks do something does not make it right or a good idea.
So, I should have been clearer. facebook and other social media is fuelling the surveillance state and surveillance capitalism. Many folks may be cool with that. But a bunch are not and think it unwise. And facebook now is heavily into virtue signalling.
 
"far right" is such a random broad term. I wish these people were honest and just give us a list of things we can actually do or say. Most of the interesting people will leave, but they can still feed from the clueless normies that will even give them their credit card numbers if they ask.

nonvir_1984 said:
I saw one article on a tech site that gave instructions on how to live stream and not use facebook. People will always find a work around.
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Veeh made a video explaining people how to use IRC. At this rate, we're all gonna get back at Usenet. alt-kiwifarms, here we go.
 
Some food on the table; wouldn't be twisting ironic if some far-right groups go more wiser and sneaky and pretend then they are far-left or just saying the opposite like in an earlier episode of the Simpsons, who know if that could get some soyboys and others sjws at Facebook as well as Twitter confused?
 
Considering I get regularly called "far right" for suggesting MLK had some laudable ideas about race, the label is next to worthless.
 
Mfw being against gang rape is considered far right now.
 
ICametoLurk said:
BNP is a thing? That shit died eons ago.
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It still lingers on as a party full of racist boomers even through groups like Hope Not Hate and Searchlight have tried their very best to nuke them back to the stone age
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...oulos-being-dangerous/?utm_term=.3036537be1ef
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Correction: Louis Farrakhan is an extremist leader who has espoused anti-Semitic views. An earlier version of this story and headline incorrectly included him in a list of far-right leaders.

Facebook said on Thursday it has permanently banned several far-right and anti-Semitic figures and organizations, including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, Infowars host Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos and Laura Loomer, for being “dangerous,” a sign that the social network is more aggressively enforcing its hate speech policies under pressure from civil rights groups.

Facebook had removed the accounts, fan pages, and groups affiliated with these individuals after it reevaluated the content that they had posted previously, or had reexamined their activities outside of Facebook, the company said. The removal also pertains to at least one of the organizations run by these people, Jones’ Infowars.

“We’ve always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology. The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove these accounts today,” Facebook said in a statement.

[YouTube banned Alex Jones. Logan Paul, one of the platform’s biggest stars, invited him back.]

None of the people banned was immediately available for comment.

Jones, for example, recently hosted Gavin McInnes, the leader of the Proud Boys whom Facebook designated as a hate figure in December. Yiannopoulos, another alt-right social media star, publicly praised McInnes this year, and Loomer appeared with him at a rally. Jones and Yiannopoulos have been temporarily banned before by Facebook and other social media platforms including Twitter.

But Facebook and its counterparts have largely resisted permanent bans, holding that objectionable speech is permissible, so long as it doesn’t bleed into hate. Facebook has also been wary of offending conservatives, who have become vocal about allegations that the company unfairly censors their speech.

[U.K. unveils sweeping plan to penalize Facebook and Google for harmful online content]

The bans are likely to be welcomed by civil rights activists, who have long argued that these individuals espouse violent and hateful views and that Silicon Valley companies should not allow their platforms to become a vehicle for spreading them.

Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters, an organization that has long advocated for more enforcement against white supremacists, said Facebook has been lax against enforcing its policies against hate speech on these accounts because the company doesn’t want to deal with the right-wing blowback. “The reality is, people are getting killed. There are mass shootings and mass murders that are clearly being connected to ideas like white genocide, which are fueling radicalization," Carusone said. "The conditions have changed. When you have these massive catalyzing moments that are connected to real-life consequences, it puts pressure on Facebook and others to look in the mirror.”

Facebook has recently signaled that it is willing to take a stronger stance against white nationalism and white supremacy, in particular. In March, the company said it would begin banning posts, photos and other content that reference white nationalism and white separatism, revising its rules in response to criticism that a loophole had allowed racism to thrive on its platform.

[Facebook is getting a facelift. Mark Zuckerberg is still debating the rest.]

Facebook said it began to reexamine the figures last year, and some of the activities and posts the company said it had reevaluated took place within the past one or two years.

It is also banning Paul Nehlen, who described himself as a “pro-White Christian Candidate” when he ran for Congress and was also kicked off the website Breitbart News site last year for ties to neo-Nazis and racist comments about Meghan Markle, and Paul Joseph Watson, a far-right YouTube personality and an editor of Infowars, according to the Infowars site.

Some of the figures, such as Nehlen and Loomer, have been banned from Twitter already.

Madihha Ahussain, special counsel for anti-Muslim bigotry with the advocacy group Muslim Advocates, said that individuals like Loomer, Jones and Yiannopoulos have used social media platforms to broadcast dangerous hate speech and conspiracies targeting Muslims, Jews and others.

“We applaud Facebook for taking this positive step toward removing hate actors from the company’s platforms,” she said. “As we saw in Christchurch, New Zealand — where a white nationalist was able to live-stream the slaughter of 50 people at two mosques — online platforms like Facebook have been used to target communities and spread hate.”
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