Anyone else remember when the Bush administration considered people who read Linux Journal to be targeted for extra surveillance because they labelled Linux Journal an extremist forum for merely discussing the existence of Tor and Tails?

Pepperidge Farm 'members.

Further, anyone else remember when the Bush admin pushed Total Information Awareness, a program that was collecting the kind of information on US citizens that those same citizens give away freely to Facebook without needing to be surveilled?

We 'member that, too.

the real malware is facebook

Linux ban on discussing Facebook.

The party of free speech everyone!

https://jessica.substack.com/p/instagram-is-censoring-abortion-pill

So what's going on here? Is this related to the new US administration? Or Microsoft and Meta exchanging money to silence the competition? Genuinely confused, but it seems fairly important whatever the motivations.

No fucking way, this is absurd.

Meanwhile

been noticing this too in linux fb groups i am in. peoples' posts linking distrowatch are getting banned.

Just ban meta and x on the whole fucking site

Is there another example of this happening in Facebook aside for the openKylin post? I looked around and every article is only talking about this specific DistroWatch issue.

Discussing a specific linux distribution is not "discussing linux".

Linking to a post on another website about a linux distribution isn't either.

I just tested it out. Nothing so far

I bet they banned distrowatch.com, use https://distrowatch.org/ instead. Sadly they give up distrowat.ch