The Censorship has begun
I wonder if this is Trump doing censorship or China doing censorship making it look like Trump doing censorship.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
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Must be China Trump and his Oligarchs can't do anything wrong they're protecting our freedom /s
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.
they said "This is definitely an error and we will fix it fast"
I'm pretty sure that's literally what they always say.
Like, has a mainstream brainwashing platform ever admitted to making the change and owning up to it? As far as I can remember, these features keep accidentally getting thought up, coded and released into the production product.
I'm at the point where there is no benefit of the doubt, especially with malicious actors like Twitter and Facebook. If there isn't proof they didn't intend to release it (and you can't exactly prove a negative), it was on purpose.
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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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
What app are you searching for hashtags in? Is that facebook?
This is my instagram, I deleted facebook
This is what comes up in my instagram for the same search.
Can you post the entire screenshot? How do we know you didn’t just photoshop that?
Why would this work for me but not for you? Do you think you specifically are being targeted with results blocking? How do you account for this?
I don't see how the entire screenshot would be any harder to photoshop. But you can look through this thread and find multiple different people confirming it on their ends too.
I see you've already seen that one, but the point is multiple people are having different results. Unless you think like 10 different people are independently lying about it.
10 people is hard to coordinate, but I’ve only seen two people: OP and one other account (probably the one you linked to).
I think more readers need to try this themselves. Go to the Instagram app, search #Democrat or #democrat, and post the screenshot here.
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There are articles about it
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1i6h5h2/instagram_has_begun_censoring_hashtags_related_to/
A Reddit post is not an article.
The Reddit post directly links to an article. It's not in English though.
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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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So Zuck has declared the Democratic Party an unlawful extremist organisation before the government could do so?
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.
The USA becoming a one-party nation in real time