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Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by unishark on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:06AM (#25146968)
Is this because you haven't confirmed your identity? I presume that is for stopping the alleged bot campaigns trying to affect elections.

Or is there a setting somewhere to block political-looking posts? Because this would be awesome. I heard something about 3rd party software claiming such a feature but I wouldn't trust them.

Re:‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the... by dheera on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:12PM (#25153175)
I don't think so. I just notice that when I post something Facebook puts a election-related warning below the post, and that seems to be correlated with visibility. So I do various things like misspelling words to stump Facebook's AI and force them to treat it like a neutral post that they don't understand. I don't want their algorithms trying to understand my content or downranking external links. I want them to play the role of blind message passing between friends.

Here's one example of what I do on Facebook. Unicode upside down, misspelling deliberately, and blocking out parts of words in the image to stump their OCR algorithms.

https://i.imgur.com/OtPxeKA.png

It's essentially the same thing one has to do to get things through the China GFW, we now have our very own version in the US courtesy of FB.