It is obviously allowed to discuss Linux. There is plenty of discussion about Linux on Facebook, including some about the recent "ban".
My guess is that some automated scanner found something wrong about the linked page. Maybe there is some link to a "hacking"-oriented distro, maybe some torrents, some dubious comment, etc... Probably a false positive, it happens.
I knew a company that leapt to the same conclusion regarding GitHub.
It has to get to the attention of higher ups.
The one time I have reported a comment to FB, it was horrible racism (said "do not interbreed with [group x] because they are [evil - not sure of exact wording]" and got a reply saying that it did not violate community standards.
And particularly in the context of work primarily about communication or computing : having an official Xitter account for a journalist or a GitHub account for a software developer is like promoting a brand of cigarettes or opiates by a doctor - a violation of professional deontology.
I presume that it is used for launching hacks, but even so discussion should not be banned.
Just makes me wonder if DistroWatch is telling the whole story.
Nobody outside of Facebook can possibly know the whole story. Hell, most people within Facebook can’t know, either.
Are you suspecting that distrowatch knows more about the context than they are letting on?
Their second request (after a network diagram) is always to create an EC2 instance running Kali.
Which, honestly, confuses me a bit -- all of the packages are available in AL or Ubuntu, so why do they care? I don't know, and I guess I don't care enough to ask. Just give me the attestation document please. :)
It's easy to say "The newest Kali release is the distro the org will use" instead of "Use whatever Linux flavor you want and here's an install script that may or may not work or break depending on your distro and/or distro's version".
Them spending time troubleshooting a setup that's out-of-spec is still time billed, so it's better for their customers for everything to roll smoothly too. They also just want to execute their job well, not spend time debugging script / build issues.
Anyways, if you don't run `sudo -s` as your first command in a shell - are you really hacking?
Likewise, discussion should be allowed.
The actual title of this story is literally not believable if you take the most generic meaning of discussion and Linux.
I'd go even further: I don't believe that anyone could believe that the title is believable.