The Censorship has begun
This is not mildly infuriating. Its incredibly worrying.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
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Running Shortlist includes blocking hashtags for:
democrat (but not republican)
voteblue (but not votered)
presidentbiden (but not president harris)
kamala
liberal
liberals
leftist
leftists
barackobama (but not presidentobama)
obama (but not obamas)
berniesanders
votebiden (votekamala, votetrump works tho)
democracy (WOW)
presidentcarter
fuckputin
makeamericasmartagain
libertarian (for some reason)
igcensorship
factsoverfiction
fuckdemocrats
fuckrepublicans
bluewave (redwave still works, shocker)
politicalleft (blocked, but politicalright isn't)
fascism
fascist
antifascism
prochoice
From Germany: about half of these still work for me. But only half.
Some have started working for me again, #democrat works again, but not #prochoice #kamala or #fuckputin
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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.
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I thought they were gonna promote more political content
Yeah but only the right political conten
(The choice of definition for the word right is left to the reader)
Meta says its working urgently to fix a problem with Instagram which results in a "results hidden" message when users search for the terms "Democrat" or "Democrats".
If that's hard to fix, I recommend shutting down the servers forever.
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German news magazine Der Spiegel wrote they had talked to a Meta representative and they said "This is definitely an error and we will fix it fast"
My personal take: An incident like this illustrates how vulnerable we are to being censored and silenced when using social media and communication channels owned by billionaires. It's time not only to leave those platforms but to educate your friends and family why this is absolutely necessary. No more excuses.
Original: Update, 13.30 Uhr: Auf SPIEGEL-Anfrage hat sich Meta inzwischen kurz und knapp zu dem Phänomen geäußert. »Dies ist eindeutig ein Fehler, den wir schnell beheben werden«, so eine Sprecherin des Konzerns.
I know as a software engineer I frequently accidentally release bugs that block entire political parties after their opponents take power. It's one of those things most people forget to write unit tests for.
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At the moment a search for #democrat on my facebook page returns a bunch of posts saying that searches for #democrat are blocked and a bunch (more recent ones) saying it isn't.
I was skeptical that this was an outrage campaign but with a real news source having a quote verifying the behavior from the company (the above referenced article was on the Der Spiegel front page and the update is at the bottom.) I'm less skeptical.
Pushing through a change doesn't happen by accidentally clicking on a button. Where I work it's a multistep process requiring manager approval. Even if the block happened by mistake it still means there was a mechanism in place to make it happen, configured so that it only censored left leaning hashtags. This is "not good."
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They will now shadow ban these topics, so people can catch them red handed. But users will just never see it in their feed
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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
"Fact checkers are politically sided"
Benito Mussolini is often attributed with the quote: “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
No one can argue the US isn't corporatist.
Is this true? Can anyone confirm this?
Confirmed in instagram in the EU.
I just confirmed it in the US. #republican returns plenty of results.
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Yes, I confirmed. I live in Germany and hashtags like democrat or berniesanders are blocked and hashtags like Republican and donaldjtrump are not blocked.
I was only on Instagram for my friends to exchange reels and post life updates like once a year but this crosses another line. Migrating from all these monopolies is such a tax on my time but this is a small way to hurt these big giants.
I recommend everyone do the same when they have the time. I'd like to learn about RSS feeds and go back to a bunch of individual blogs for friends and family. Decentralized power is I guess the most important characteristic to look for these days. Fuck, this correction period is going to suck.
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Don't worry! Free Speech Republicans AGAINST Censorship will be FURIOUS when they hear about this!
Australia checking in.....yeah nah it's happening here too. Shitcunts.
The USA becoming a one-party nation in real time
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
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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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