re: #167 Charmingly Persistent

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This was supposed to be a reply to Mike Masnick who said that people don’t know how automatic blocking works. I don’t know, it’s true, but no one seems to be even trying to explain how this exploded as it did

I do know how automatic blocking works. I have systems here at LGF that can do it. And a lot of the arguments Mike Masnick and others made are very plausible and make sense.

But there are elements of this case that seem extreme to me. Meta didn’t simply ban that original link from being posted, they put up a complete ban of ALL links from all the sites that posted it, LGF among them, across their entire network of more than a billion users, even going back 15 years in one case I know of to delete a post at Facebook. The use of that global “nuclear option” seems to me to be way out of balance, and is more like the kind of thing a person who’s BIG MAD would do.

But it’s all speculation, really. None of us knows, or probably ever will know, exactly what went down here, and although I still am not satisfied this wasn’t intentional, I don’t really want to argue about speculation with folks who think they know exactly what happened, when they don’t know either.