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Mildly Infuriating

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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

Note: some of these like #democrat I can search again.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I tried to find news articles that supported your claim that more than just democrats was blocked.

I found a couple that said that democrats were blocked, but found it strange that the journalists did not try other obvious hashtags aswell.

Does anyone know of any third party that can verify this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I don't have any sources for you. But I saw it with my own eyes and took screenshots.

Sorry to link to reddit, but here's a post with 90k up votes, and comments filled with people experiencing the same.

While being able to search #republican and #prolife

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/J6MMy8DP6k

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

3rd time the charm?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

This was a "bug". According to Meta.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They are testing the waters, seeing what they can get away with. It's only day 2.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

If this is "testing the waters" then buckle the fuck up folks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How come i get results though?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

It's no longer censored as obviously.

Once it made news they back pedaled

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g32yxpdz0o

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 days ago

This is more than mildly infuriating. This is fascism in action.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is #prolife blacklisted as well?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Nope you could search that just fine.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago

From the folks that complain about their free speech.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The tech giants all try to be your daddy, so you may as well delete them all. None of them are there to help you become a proper, educated adult.

I'm surprised when people keep using them. People still use Google, it's even the most popular search engine in the world.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, whether we like to admit it or not, Google still has better search quality compared to other competitors, even if the quality of Google search had gone down over the decades. Also, even more unfortunate is that Google creeped and embedded itself into almost every fibre of modern digital society. Trying to avoid anything remotely related to Google is almost impossible because you would be inconveniencing yourself. I still have to use Google Maps to get my way around, unfortunately, because other map services are not great.

Welcome to techno-feudalism. Now I know what left wing critics like Yanis Varoufakis mean by the term. Big tech companies have made themselves lords and we have to stick with them for convenience, and the government could do nothing about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah unfortunately we get to live through this nightmare even if you didn't vote for it. Best tip is to not use US services as payback. Use a VPN if necessary.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I see that WhatsApp notification 😞

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd love to move away from it, but my work and literally everyone I know is on there

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Congrats, you just made the argument for abandoning these platforms and the excuse for not doing so in the same post.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fair, it's easier to ditch some than others.

Explaining to my work why I don't use WhatsApp is tricky.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

You do not have to explain yourself to judgemental assholes.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This should be front page news why is this not front page news what the fuck

(Note that this statement is rhetorical)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

"In a hyper-partisan environment, even unintentional errors like this can escalate into accusations of partisanship," he said.

"If these issues are not resolved quickly they risk fuelling conspiracy theories and damaging Meta's reputation."

While users who type "#Democrat" or "#Democrats" see no results, the hashtag "Republican" returns 3.3 million posts on the social media platform.

Yeah, no. There are no 'accusations of partisanship', there's straight up blatant partisanship and overt attempts at shaping the narrative and suppressing speech that Der Furher won't like. There's no speed short of not implementing it in the first place that would prevent conspiracies from propagating, especially with how hard Fuckerberg is dickriding trump.

I deleted my Facebook account over a decade ago for good reason, and I'm hopeful that people will (but realistic that they won't) get off of there. That shit hole needs to burn.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Just an error that targets only one side of the political spectrum. Of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

THANKS OBAMA! (/s if it's not obvious)

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