Interestingly if you read the actual report from HRW, it sounds like most of the material they are referring too was legitimately taken down because it supported violence, according to Meta's policies.
For example, the phrase "from the river to the see" is considered hateful by many, so it was taken down. In other cases the content praised attacks by Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organization by the US government.
From HRWs descriptions it sounds like the bulk of the "1049" content removals were clear violations of Meta's policies against support for violence.
Regardless of whether you agree, these don't seem surprising to me on light of Meta's own rules. There are of course a small number of exceptions listed.
So the phrase "from the river to the sea" is hateful to many but when it comes to disrespect Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) or Quran then it becomes freedom of speech no matter a vast majority of world population hates it. Hypocrisy to say the least!
Hackers like to obsess about Big-O, data structures, HoTT, and other high-theory stuff, yet the following skills, essential for software engineering, are almost never discussed and even more rarely practiced:
- Deciding what to write yourself and what to take from a library
- Identifying high-quality libraries and frameworks that meet your project needs
- Deciding where optimization is worth the effort and where it is not
- Writing code that will still be readable to you (and others) a few years from now
- Thinking about the project as a large-scale, complex system with software and non-software dependencies
In that spirit, I offer the following alternative challenge: Create a web search engine. Don't bother with string matching algorithms etc., others have already done that for you. "Just" make a search engine (and crawler) that can actually work, even if it only supports a subset of the web and a single concurrent user at the beginning.