At this point, I think everybody here knows someone who shares the same name with a criminal and has been mistreated for it. What Facebook is doing isn't ideal, but I don't think they are acting in malice.
If I'm not mistaken, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial is ongoing and he hasn't been convicted of any crime at this time.
Also, if Facebook really wants to be the best dystopian force it can be, perhaps instead of censoring searches for "Kyle Rittenhouse", it should just ban users who are so stupid that they send angry messages to any user with the name "Kyle Rittenhouse".
Try typing 'nazi' or 'hitler' anywhere in Facebook. It is flagged and will get zero results. Would hate to be a WW2 enthusiast.... oh wait I am one.
But 'stalin' or 'mao' is fine.
The solution for big tech to stop something is just to force zero results where there may be thousands. They love controlling thought.
What is outlawed is anything that damages the narrative that the company (and by extension, generally, the ruling class) wants to push.
Very interesting curiosity, questions, facts are allowed and extremely common. So is horrible vulgarity, including bullying, lies, misinformation. When they are disallowed it is because they share the common property that they go against the narrative.
>So is horrible vulgarity
Nope. Not even remotely. Even things that aren't vulgar to 99% and only vulgar to the 1% are considered vulgar and are outlawed.
Yes I suppose you are right really, they clearly discourage true open-minded curiosity. They allow a more mundane type of curiosity though, "Did <bad person> do a bad thing? Let's investigate..." totally allowed, for the correct values of bad person.
> Nope. Not even remotely. Even things that aren't vulgar to 99% and only vulgar to the 1% are considered vulgar and are outlawed.
Yes, entirely. I'm not sure what definition of vulgar you are working on, but they absolutely allow it when the target of it is a designated undesirable.