The Censorship has begun
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Don’t worry! Free Speech Republicans AGAINST Censorship will be FURIOUS when they hear about this!
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
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
Me too, I tried just a few. On pc #antifascist , #fascist and #democracy didn’t work. On a mobile phone from my colleague #democracy worked though.
Well fuck.
presidentbiden (but not president harris)
barackobama (but not presidentobama)
votebiden (votekamala, votetrump works tho)
presidentcarter
libertarian (for some reason)
These are some odd censorship choices. In America, libertarian is short for (not really anarcho) anarcho-capitalist and they tend to vote right wing. They’re the tea party essentially and trumps election is a culmination of the tea party’s power. I consider myself a left libertarian / anarcho-communist but we are not that common in America. Unfortunately.
And why censor Carter? He’s dead. And why biden but not Harris? So odd.
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 of 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.
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.
There are articles about Bigfoot
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
#Democrator#democrat, and post the screenshot here.Works for me still. I wonder if they’re staggering things
igcensorship
This one’s funny. I wonder if they’ll go recursive and add “igcensorshipcensorship” next.
Move fast and censor things
Meta says its working urgently to fix a problem with Instagram which results in a “results hidden” message when users search for the terms “Democrat” or “Democrats”.
If that’s hard to fix, I recommend shutting down the servers forever.
It’s hard emotionally
Makes me wonder if it was something like a lot of people were scrolling those hashtags and leaving hate comments and it triggered some automated hide feature and now they’re trying to find some middle ground. That’s being very generous to Meta though.
I hope you’re right but something tells me this was intentional
I’m sure it happened just after Trump took office with explicit technocratic goals ENTIRELY on accident.
*technofascist
All I can think about is how Israel’s AI targeting program (lavender) is coming to a leftist near you. Combine with ukraines AI drones and we have a technofascist future where dissent gets removed permanently. Instead of banning your account they’ll be banning your life.
They’ve always been the same thing. If you took the concept of a technocracy at its most idealized form it’s still innately undemocratic.
It might, possibly, work, but it’s still authoritarian in nature.
But technofascist does strip their veneer of being actual engineers away I suppose, so it definitely has benefits.
To the uninitiated technocrat sounds like techno democrat - techno democracy. It doesn’t sound that bad. Technofascist doesn’t have the same muddiness - it’s clear what they are.
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.
Confirming this was the last straw and the moment I uninstalled all meta apps
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
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
https://techissuestoday.com/meta-auto-follow-trump-vance-blocks-democrat-hashtags/
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
I’m not sure how many years of headlines you all need before you just stop using these services. You already know they artificially lower your engagement, so you’re just literally wasting your time at this point. (If you’re not a fascist, that is.)
Preaching to the choir here
The USA becoming a one-party nation in real time
Looks like Zuckerberg needs a “red shell”…
I vote for the blue shell, it never misses
Is this pre active censorship on the term “Democrat”. Or are posts using the term getting flagged for other terms. I can imagine there is an increasing amount of hate speech circling there. Both scenarios are worrying in different ways.
#proChoice and #kamala are also censored
I am very glad to no longer be on there but shits gonna spread to the rest of the web quickly i fear.
Just testing the new Great American Firewall!
