Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”
by jonnycomputer on Friday July 16, 2021 @04:35PM
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That's crazy.
Twice in the last week a comment of mine got blocked on Facebook for violating policies. In the first case, I posted a link to an EPA website and a screenshot of a graph posted on it, showing a reduction in smog in the last 10 years compared to 1987. In the second, I pasted a screenshot of something from the CDC's COVID Tracking site and a link to a British research paper on the efficacy of the vaccines wrt the delta variant. In the second case, my link was broken somehow, which might have contributed to the problem somehow?
They never went back up.
It's definitely not just a hypothetical risk either. In the last month, Facebook blocked me from distributing my blog post on Django best practices because they claim it violates their community standards. It's literally a post about how to structure API code, but now they're claiming that it's advocating for genocide or something and there's apparently no one to appeal to or any way to reverse this.
For reference: https://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2021/06/django-for...
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/?q=https%3A%2F%2...