The Censorship has begun
It’s not censorship. It’s a private company that is regulating the content on its platform.
Submitted 22 hours ago by AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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The Censorship has begun
It’s not censorship. It’s a private company that is regulating the content on its platform.
As long as you don’t mind the fact that everyone else is on this particular one.
The network effect is a real thing, it’s not that simple.
This is such a dumb thing to say, you could also say that all news papers etc. Are private companies.
But if they’re collectively controlled by a few people or the government, and only publish certain things. That is 100% censorship
Seems to work on my FB account in the US. It seems to be posts complaining about it though but still pulling up popular searches of the term.
I deleted my Instagram accounts so I can’t check there.
I wonder if this is Trump doing censorship or China doing censorship making it look like Trump doing censorship.
Must be China Trump and his Oligarchs can’t do anything wrong they’re protecting our freedom /s
Move fast and censor things
And so it begins, this might be the start of the digital war. Let’s hope they won’t make it into a physical one.
Post is fake.
My results:
Misinformation flows when people don’t check things. Everyone should check this for themselves then decide how much to trust OP in the future.
There were multiple people confirming it. Meta can change things on their end at a moments notice. If you read the rest of the thread you’d see that the term you searched for is working again, but there are others that still aren’t.
Other users in the thread confirmed this at the time of posting, so I presume they (at least partially) reverted the changes after they were caught.
Instagram back pedaled, I can also search it now.
There are many news articles about it, most if not everyone was experiencing it.
#fuckputin is still blocked for me
Dude… How many times are you going to post this same thing lol
Will continue to post as long as komrade orders him too, and gives him some rubles. Or maybe stolichnaya.
Welcome what yall did to republicans for 4 years
We did? Can you point to an example?
I didn’t screenshots and bitch on here
I like even in your defense of the behavior, you admit it’s evil, you just use a lie to justify it.
People like you are so stupid it’s not even funny.
As an American, most of us want you to leave.
Yeah I bet. I’ll just go ahead and live in one of the many red counties lol
Bull fucking shit.
What? Listen to you spout lies and hate from all the rooftops you could climb to? Go back to sleep troll.
Surely there is ton of evidence of your claim other than your incredebly large asshole filled with DNA samples of the people in office currently.
so the “we” in ya’ll are the owners of Meta, and the “what we did” was block the search term #republicans, which never happened, do I have that right in terms of understanding what you meant by this?
Maybe try to be better. You know, when they go low, we go high
They’ve since fixed it, and called it a bug.
A bug that only effects democratic content…
I get censored here all the time.
For another data point I can search any of those terms on the shortlist that was posted just fine, using Facebook on the website. Either searching for posts or videos. May be app specific or something that was very temporary? Located in US. No Instagram account.
It sounds like it only affected Instagram
weastie@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Scary if true, but I’m in the US and everything seems to be working for me. It could have been a temporary bug that was already fixed? Not sure
AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
Sadly it’s true.
www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g32yxpdz0o