The Censorship has begun
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.
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.
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.
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
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
What’s a two party state that’s one party down?
Simple democracy.
So basic you can hardly tell it’s there!
Sounds a bit like a…dictatorship
Zuckerburg is furious that dems dragged him before congress and tried to blame Trump winning on Facebook.
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.
Every day is a day closer to the electorate realizing certain luxuries have been removed from their cages. Here’s hoping it’s sooner rather than later. And don’t be pathetic and turn to the democrats to help you. They were bought and paid for and will be lucky not to be disappeared.
Luigi, that you?
Ugh, excuse me, I’m a “dirty lib” and you can check my credentials on that one.
In reality, though, I’ve been saying since Novemeber we are on a fixed rail now and if there was once a way off it just passed us by. The sooner everyone comes to realize it the better but I can’t make everyone do it. So just spreading the word and hopefully they know I’m not trying to scare them but prepare them for the not so distant future.
And if I go with the first round of cullings I’m happy too because the horrors about to be witnessed will break any good person and my hearts weak.
That wasn’t a denial lol
I politely disagree about our fixed path, but to correct it will be so much harder now, no doubt. Just gotta keep at it.
Derailment, maybe, I just don’t see how we can use the system to break the system at this point. It would be worth a try but anytime I say the word “strike” I get bombarded with the most derisive vitriol. So, I’m just putting 2 and 2 together.
Don’t get me wrong, it seems bleak for sure, but they are banking on ppl giving up or losing energy. The uphill battle sucks, but we need to regroup, re-evaluate, and definitely push forward. If too many ppl give up, we sign our own demise :(
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.
Maybe it is being abused by trolls and such so badly they had to disable it temporarily.
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/
What was that story warning people that if they use RedNote they’ll experience ‘Chinese style censorship’ for the first time?
US using the old if you can’t beat em approach
Yeah the US is making China look tame… Fucked up world we live in… Definitely the wrong timeline…
Maybe this will hopefully get people to stop using the garbage platform that enabled Trump and aided a literal genocide because they didn’t hire anyone fluent in the language of the people being exterminated.
I can’t wait for the day Zuckerberg loses all his money and dies alone because he alienated himself from anyone who cared about him.
With pixelfed ripping right now and available tools to migrate your IG images, there’s never been a better time to leave zuck’s shithole sites.
The USA becoming a one-party nation in real time
Just tried it. It works fine. Granted, most results are from fascist accounts, but it does work
I wonder if that may be the cause of the block in the original post — i.e. if the fascist accounts were posting lots of “sensitive” content (such as stuff that would, in a different era, been far more likely to be removed if reported), then it might appear like the censorship that OP saw. I vaguely recall an instance of something similar happening, and if so, the “censorship” would be an automated error, and it being visible now would be after the manual intervention.
Occam’s razor disproves this to me.
It’s more likely that meta was testing censorship, but people caught on.
Than #johnOliver #bernieSanders #Democrat #proChoice etc. All being banned, but none of the conserve hashtags
Just testing the new Great American Firewall!
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 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.
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.Works for me still. I wonder if they’re staggering things
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
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.
igcensorship
This one’s funny. I wonder if they’ll go recursive and add “igcensorshipcensorship” next.
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.