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Don’t they use linux for their own servers LOL?

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It seems appropriate to describe Facebook itself as a cybersecurity threat because of the OS platform it runs on. Perhaps they should also ban all the technologies named on this page … just to be safe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

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The irony is that they said this from something running on a Linux box.

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Why do try to ban Linux mentions? Linux doesn’t show ads unlike Windows 10+ so their ad campaign is useless on Linux therefore malicious in their eyes.

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That’s not true though. A browser running in a Linux desktop shows ads just like any other OS, and ad blocker browser extensions are platform agnostic.

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The irony is Facebook contributes to opensource linux, heavily for btrfs which they use for certain data storage.

Security threat to the US Fascist Government maybe. Maybe coinicdence that it was near Jan 20th. Maybe I am looking to deep but looks like USA is trying to be North Korea or China . Use Windows face recognition and telemetry to to track users, censor alternative OSs from public knowledge.

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this is likely to keep as much people on windows as possible in an effort prevent people from being able to disable (or not have at all) things like location tracking, telemetry, etc. the us govt is probably going to crack down hard on “terrorist” threats (aka socialists, palestine supporters, and even anyone moderately critical of us imperialism), so they’re gonna need all the information they can gather about people’s online activities

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