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Is Facebook sensoring Linux discussions?

A January 21, 2025 update confirms Facebook did not restore the users post.

Facebook on laptop

My Facebook account was also locked for my efforts.

More broadly, its not the first time that DistroWatch has run into problems with social media.

This sort of censorship is an unpleasant side-effect of centralized communication platforms, the author writes.

DistroWatch has now opened a Mastodon account in protest of its dissatisfaction with centralized social media platforms.

A Meta spokesperson toldTechRadar Proin an email: “This enforcement was in error and has since been addressed.

Discussions of Linux are allowed on our services.”