Matt Seybold: Meta removed all links to this piece from their platform, then removed links to all Kansas Reflector pieces. When @marisakabas.bsky.social started covering it as a tech censorship story, they removed links to her newsletter, TheHandbasket.Substack.com, as well.

Meta removed all links to this piece from their platform, then removed links to all Kansas Reflector pieces. When @marisakabas.bsky.social started covering it as a tech censorship story, they removed links to her newsletter, TheHandbasket.Substack.com, as well.

When Facebook fails, local media matters even more for our planet's future • Kansas Reflectorkansasreflector.com We are getting along OK without the promotional help of Facebook, but it does seem problematic that a behemoth such as Meta can dictate the terms of our communications.

@deyob.bsky.social File under "shit we've been worrying about"

That's fast becomin' a fat fuckin' file, Matt—duly noted✊

Marisa's newsletter has actually moved. (Too many shady platforms to keep track of!) Here:

A local news site was critical of Facebook—then Meta banned all their linkswww.thehandbasket.co Their content was erroneously flagged as a cybersecurity threat.

This explains why a story I shared from the handbasket *months* ago about a courtroom sketch artist was removed for "sensitive information or malicious software" this morning! What bullshit.

Per @camestrosf.bsky.social , they are now removing links to the Wayback Machine!

I'm trying a link to the dodgier archive site archive.is/aO9vF to see how long that lasts!

archive.is

Facebook might as well issue a press release which reads "We would like to confirm that everything in this story is absolutely, indisputably true, and though it embarrasses us for people to know that, we have no intention of changing our policies in any way."

When Facebook fails, local media matters even more for our planet's future • Kansas Reflectorkansasreflector.com We are getting along OK without the promotional help of Facebook, but it does seem problematic that a behemoth such as Meta can dictate the terms of our communications.

Yeah, how-dare-you-say-we-are-censoring-content-on-climate-change-we-are-way-more-censorious-than-that!

The only way I’ve been able to post it is to repost her post on BlueSky, and then share the link of your post. So it seems like they blocked her BlueSky post as well.

It’s maybe a matter of hours, at most days, before a major paper or network runs with this story. Always worth remembering how endlessly tone deaf and arrogantly cocooned Silicon Valley oligarchical companies are

Fuck Zuckerberg. He did everything Musk has done with X, but worse. Total creep.

This guy is no different and even worse than Musk.

I tried posting the story on my FB page and it wouldn't upload it.

Same. Got this message: "Posts that look like spam according to our Community Guidelines are blocked on Facebook and can't be edited."

Same. Didn't show up, not even a notice. As if I'd never posted it.

took my post down too ... jfc

I wonder if they are a little sensitive about how much their data centers contribute

Seems like a reason to avoid the place (anything Meta).

I said Facebook was bad for democracy on my personal page, following revelations of election interference, and now they want to charge me $1 per like or view on Instagram. I’m throttled completely. Meta should be broken up for monopolistic trade practices.

Geeze when you put it like that, why it doesn't sound like a bug at all!

Off Facebook and Insta for ages now.. got off X.. 2 months ago.. when Elon started dictating which posts need squelching.. don't miss any of it.. Don't need someone else's approval to lead my life..

Meta should be shut down, and they will be. As rich as their leader is, they will not stop the total destruction of every living thing on this beautiful blue marble.

Too many politicians in their pocket in too many countries for that to happen.

My point was... it doesn't matter as the escalation of global war, the Sixth Extinction Event, and people's fear, denial, ignorance, and stupidity is destroying the habitat. No habitat, no existence.

Ohh, you were talking the end of the human race & the lack of commercial imperative. Or staff, or customers. No matter how quickly we destroy ourselves in the pursuit of collecting the greatest number of national trading tokens, plant & animal life will continue in some form.

Without a habitat capable of sustaining life nothing survives.

There's life next to sulphur vents on the ocean floor, there'll be plenty of life after us.

It's to the point where my aunt posted a picture of a temple and it got removed for hate symbols

#MarkZuckerberg #Censorship #FreeSpeech #Meta #Disinformation

Oligarchs are oligarchs wherever they are, and they tend to do as Putin would want oligarchs to do.

Tested by posting the same second link again. Was able to post the same content again. But first link is a no go, even with spaces to break the link.

First link in this thread didn't work, was able to share the second. A screenshot if someone needs additional data:

All the while they had Andy Stone claiming on Twitter that it was "an error" that has "since been reversed".

Streissand effect go!

Perhaps it's time to go back to MySpace.

Tumblr?

You know what I have a clever way to blitz scale BlueSky and my political campaign!