The Censorship has begun
What was that story warning people that if they use RedNote they’ll experience ‘Chinese style censorship’ for the first time?
US using the old if you can’t beat em approach
Yeah the US is making China look tame… Fucked up world we live in… Definitely the wrong timeline…
Same results later that day. They were running a test.
Maybe it is being abused by trolls and such so badly they had to disable it temporarily.
This is not mildly infuriating. Its incredibly worrying.
someone should make c/incrediblyworrying
The Product Manager made the mistake of having the keyword be overtly banned by the SWEs.
What was intended was an algorithmic change to hide the content entirely and divert to “acceptable” topics while obfuscating the ban.
It will be corrected shortly.
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They’ve since fixed it, and called it a bug.
A bug that only effects democratic content…
For another data point I can search any of those terms on the shortlist that was posted just fine, using Facebook on the website. Either searching for posts or videos. May be app specific or something that was very temporary? Located in US. No Instagram account.
It sounds like it only affected Instagram
https://techissuestoday.com/meta-auto-follow-trump-vance-blocks-democrat-hashtags/
I dont even know how to react to this. It feels like my reaction to everything has been holy shit this is fucking insane. I’m burnt out, I just need to tend to my own garden. I cant have sympathy for people who support the right and these stupid social media platforms.
I have that same thought, but then I think this is exactly how all the non-Jewish people felt as hitler was rising to power. I end up getting even more angry and looking up where to buy fertilizer.
Love the double entendre. Are you tending your garden harder, or blowing up Parliament?
Completely unrelated to the topic, but did you know you can make crude gunpowder called “black powder” using only sulfur and saltpeter (KNO3) fertilizers and charcoal?
We are starting a homestead and getting away from all the fuss.
Yes
That’s kind of the point. A constant barrage of stupid and dangerous shit to keep you enraged until you burn put. You cannot stay enraged for four years and nobody will care to do anything if it’s a constant stream of small and big steps to fascism. They’re not removing all liberties at once, but in a lot of steps so that it becomes impossible to agree on which step becomes the straw to break the camel’s back.
Protip: Disconnect yourself from the online media circus.
Bring yourself up to speed with current developments once a week.
And focus your energy on helping people around you who need help.You can’t stop fascism all by yourself. But you can affect your immediate surroundings.
And if enough people do that, there will be resistance everywhere.
The USA becoming a one-party nation in real time
Just testing the new Great American Firewall!
Is this pre active censorship on the term “Democrat”. Or are posts using the term getting flagged for other terms. I can imagine there is an increasing amount of hate speech circling there. Both scenarios are worrying in different ways.
#proChoice and #kamala are also censored
I am very glad to no longer be on there but shits gonna spread to the rest of the web quickly i fear.
Scary if true, but I’m in the US and everything seems to be working for me. It could have been a temporary bug that was already fixed? Not sure
Sadly it’s true.
Just tried it. It works fine. Granted, most results are from fascist accounts, but it does work
I wonder if that may be the cause of the block in the original post — i.e. if the fascist accounts were posting lots of “sensitive” content (such as stuff that would, in a different era, been far more likely to be removed if reported), then it might appear like the censorship that OP saw. I vaguely recall an instance of something similar happening, and if so, the “censorship” would be an automated error, and it being visible now would be after the manual intervention.
Occam’s razor disproves this to me.
It’s more likely that meta was testing censorship, but people caught on.
Than #johnOliver #bernieSanders #Democrat #proChoice etc. All being banned, but none of the conserve hashtags
I’m not sure how many years of headlines you all need before you just stop using these services. You already know they artificially lower your engagement, so you’re just literally wasting your time at this point. (If you’re not a fascist, that is.)
Preaching to the choir here
Every day is a day closer to the electorate realizing certain luxuries have been removed from their cages. Here’s hoping it’s sooner rather than later. And don’t be pathetic and turn to the democrats to help you. They were bought and paid for and will be lucky not to be disappeared.
Luigi, that you?
Ugh, excuse me, I’m a “dirty lib” and you can check my credentials on that one.
In reality, though, I’ve been saying since Novemeber we are on a fixed rail now and if there was once a way off it just passed us by. The sooner everyone comes to realize it the better but I can’t make everyone do it. So just spreading the word and hopefully they know I’m not trying to scare them but prepare them for the not so distant future.
And if I go with the first round of cullings I’m happy too because the horrors about to be witnessed will break any good person and my heart is weak.
That wasn’t a denial lol
I politely disagree about our fixed path, but to correct it will be so much harder now, no doubt. Just gotta keep at it.
Derailment, maybe, I just don’t see how we can use the system to break the system at this point. It would be worth a try but anytime I say the word “strike” I get bombarded with the most derisive vitriol. So, I’m just putting 2 and 2 together.
Don’t get me wrong, it seems bleak for sure, but they are banking on ppl giving up or losing energy. The uphill battle sucks, but we need to regroup, re-evaluate, and definitely push forward. If too many ppl give up, we sign our own demise :(
