Half a year ago, I found a Facebook bug where if you post a comment that contains both a URL in the text and a picture as an attachment, it gets removed in a few seconds. About 24 hours later, you get a notification that the comment violates community standards for spam. I tried reporting the issue but it's hard to get an answer or progress.
I agree with what a couple of YouTube comments said:
> censorship like this, that simply tricks you into thinking you're alone or being ignored, is a form of psychological torment.
> This is extremely frustrating, I've experienced this countless times. Most of the time I don't even know what causes censoring. It's insane
> They censor the whole platform like that, comments just go straight into the black hole and you never know what words triggered it.
Imgur does this, too. Actually pretty smart from the platform's PoV. Just delete or "shadow" comments (or whatever you call it, when you can see your comments but no one else can) that contain certain words.
No need for moderation, people still use your garbage, while not being able to influence anyone else or affect your advertising.
when an algorithm censors one form of content over another, then it is indirectly supporting the alternative. which is tuned based on biases, those biases pad the pockets of like minded people within their social sphere, their circle of influence.
but the perception is there that this is what everyone wants, so a percentage of people (competition in many cases) gets censored.
if this was like a small corner bar and someone was advertising their business inside someone else’s bar, then yeah i get it, your house, your rules, but censoring someone on a platform that is larger than many nations put together seems dangerous.
But they're not being paid to do so, like this Law establishes. Unless they're doing it to bbenefit content that are more likely to generate ad revenue. But they already have the freedom to do so with their algos...
I agree with what a couple of YouTube comments said:
> censorship like this, that simply tricks you into thinking you're alone or being ignored, is a form of psychological torment.
> This is extremely frustrating, I've experienced this countless times. Most of the time I don't even know what causes censoring. It's insane
> They censor the whole platform like that, comments just go straight into the black hole and you never know what words triggered it.