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I don't even think this is a joke. That's what Facebook is like. The people spreading actual bigoted animosity are fine as long as they don't use specific words. It's pathetic. I got banned for calling blatant homophobes pieces of shit, pretty sure the homophobes got off scot free
I got a temp ban on reddit for using “hateful speech” while being attacked for being gay. Those in power want to maintain power and are uninterested in fairness.
I'm sorry that happened to you. So shitty. I feel like they set these discrete rules because they want the easiest path to appearing fair and aren't interested in the actual result of those rules. Even if the result is that horrible bigots go unpunished while rightfully angered victims are the ones banned.
It's not just Facebook. It's fucking everywhere. I mentioned in a post comment that fag-got* is a food in the UK and it got auto censored. I had a post deleted for being "offensive" because I asked if the UK is the US of Europe. It was light hearted. Silly.
But no, every fucker is determined to be offended by everything. It's making commenting anything other than dry fact absolutely impossible. Sarcasm, banter, and even certain US-English words are outright banned even on non US sites and instances. Unalive, s*x, etc.
The internet has become fucking brain dead. Everything's covered in padding so children don't get a boo boo from naughty words. I've seen commentators reprimanded for replying to a kid with a swear word! "They're a minor, watch the language". Utterly fucking pathetic.
Where are the fucking adults? Or why are the adults so fucking precious? It wasn't like this in 2010. People actually had skin.
Which is ironic considering I'm gay and British so not only is fagot not offensive but "puff" is worse yet I don't demand people censor the fucking word! Do British instances censor spastic and Paki as much as the internet as a whole censors equivalent US English words?! American brain rot.
eeeeh complaining about people getting offended is kind of a right-wing dogwhistle..
And yet the right wing gets so offended about (*checks the picture up top*) making fun of cops.
Also:
- Anything that mentions LGBTQ people
- Anything that insults the US or its flag
- Any religion that isn't Christianity
(Not an exhaustive list)
The post in question is blatant racism. Is it funny? Sure. But replace "white" with "black" and add a giant shnoz and people will be screaming up and down about racism.
At the end of the day, this was just run through some shitty and ineffective AI detection algorithm because Meta can't be bothered to invest the money required for appropriate moderation of several billion users/day. I mean I come across scam accounts every day pretending to be my friends and report them and Facebook writes me back to tell me they'll do nothing. Same for a wide variety of spam/scam/pornographic content.
Yeah, I'm aware. Which is annoying as I'm a socialist liberal. I just want to be able to speak my mind without it being censored to hell and back by the cultural sensitives of a country an ocean away.
I joined Lemmy.ml since they were the creators. Thought it would be good to stick near the source. Bad choice—it’s made up of angry communists who attack you when you ask questions. Example: someone says they won’t vote for Biden and you ask what alternative they propose and then the personal attacks begin. It’s weird. I’m going to migrate elsewhere.
I got banned for calling blatant homophobes pieces of shit
Similar can happen on Reddit, but on Reddit you can leave certain subreddits, or get banned in them and life moves on. However, Facebook is different breed. Facebook is like dedicated social network for those who are not accepted (and/or feeling unwelcome) by others in real life, so in Facebook you can find conspiracy theorists with the same ideas, boomers with the same ideas and racists with the same ideas.
So happy that I left facebook ~5 years ago.
Yeah. Facebook broke me in 2020. It was mostly antivaxxers, bigots, fascists, and conspiracy morons in every comment thread at that point. I couldn't continue on that platform. The pieces of shit running that company give zero fucks that they helped destroy civilization and they should be in prison for it, no exaggeration.
I reported a dude posting an image that said "shoot your local heroin dealer"
They didn't do shit. I requested review. They still didn't do shit.
Guarantee if I posted one that said "lynch your local kkk member" I'd get banned
I have reported so many horrible assholes and I'm guessing only 20% of the time has anything been done about them. It's pathetic. Insult somebody though, it's the worst crime imaginable, even if they're hinting that Hitler was right or whatever...
same for reddit, I got banned for saying "fuck you" to a transphobe
I don't doubt it. I feel like they almost enjoy making those types of decisions. It's so much easier to ask "is this sentence literally insulting?" Than to look at the context and judge the intent of the antagonist
I think it's just that redd*t is run by bigots