As the title says.
There have been reports by many users (and some of my friends), that Facebook, specifically in Mexico only, is erasing or blocking for posts or comments that contain insults aimed to the government, being the major examples "Pinch* Gobierno Pu**", (an equivalent in English may be "Fuck**g shitty government") "Gobierno de Mier**" (Shitty Government) and a large etc.
It has been proven that Facebook only will block such insults when the word "gobierno" accompanies them, the insults alone doesn't seem to cause trouble, except for "puto" and "joto", this being obvious because both are derogatory forms to refer to homosexual men.
Many believe that this has something to do with the recent agreement that Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, had with Mark Zuckerberg regarding a program to deliver internet connection to every area from said country, and to this, adding the fact that AMLO's government is struggling with heavy criticism coming from remarkable figures in the country that once where supporting him, even from the people that voted him in the past 2018 elections.
What do you think? This question is mainly aimed to people from my country (Mexico), but I would like to read people from other countries as well, since this practice could be applied to other territories.
In my opinion, this is a very blatant form of censorship, after all, being rude or not, at the end is just an opinion, one what we have freedom to make. Also this makes me afraid of how government has the power to censor even social media in this form, it worries me what could be done in the future if we let this to continue.
There have been reports by many users (and some of my friends), that Facebook, specifically in Mexico only, is erasing or blocking for posts or comments that contain insults aimed to the government, being the major examples "Pinch* Gobierno Pu**", (an equivalent in English may be "Fuck**g shitty government") "Gobierno de Mier**" (Shitty Government) and a large etc.
It has been proven that Facebook only will block such insults when the word "gobierno" accompanies them, the insults alone doesn't seem to cause trouble, except for "puto" and "joto", this being obvious because both are derogatory forms to refer to homosexual men.
Many believe that this has something to do with the recent agreement that Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, had with Mark Zuckerberg regarding a program to deliver internet connection to every area from said country, and to this, adding the fact that AMLO's government is struggling with heavy criticism coming from remarkable figures in the country that once where supporting him, even from the people that voted him in the past 2018 elections.
What do you think? This question is mainly aimed to people from my country (Mexico), but I would like to read people from other countries as well, since this practice could be applied to other territories.
In my opinion, this is a very blatant form of censorship, after all, being rude or not, at the end is just an opinion, one what we have freedom to make. Also this makes me afraid of how government has the power to censor even social media in this form, it worries me what could be done in the future if we let this to continue.
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