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Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta

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Re: Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta

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Post by rmah »

polygamous_bat wrote: post #78
rmah wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you risk everything to start a company only to be forced to give up most of it to other people? Why would others invest (i.e. buy stock) in your company only to give up control to non-owners?

The founders and the employees are still being paid for their hard work building it up; it's not like a hostile government takeover where Mark Zuckerberg is woken up in his bed one night and asked by some men in uniform to hand over the keys to Facebook.

Actually, that's exactly what it's like.

Re: Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta

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Post by kragen »

helsinkiandrew wrote: post #55

Are any of the sites using FB events/analytics? It depends on what the non-profit sites are doing, but the Facebook rules for prohibited domains [1] seem to include what a lot of non-profits may do: "Predominantly target or serve an audience likely to have suffered from mental, emotional, financial or physical harm, or facing severe economic hardship that directly affects housing, food security or freedom." I'm guess…

It sounds like what you're saying is that FB prohibits community organizers, labor organizers, and charity from using FB analytics — which honestly is maybe not a bad idea, because analytics amounts to a serious privacy leak, one which could especially negatively impact vulnerable populations.

Re: Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta

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Post by kragen »

nicgrev103 wrote: post #86

Similar experience I used to run a graduation photography company, we did professional graduation photos half the price of the 'officail' providers (who pay a huge commission to the university, but don't get me started on that). We promoted our service with facebook events and advertised said events. One year without warning or explination they Facebook just deleted all our events (we would travel from one uni to ano…

Did they undelete your events as part of the settlement?

Re: Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta

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Post by tarranoth »

I have a suspicion that your domain name (stamhoofd = head of the tribe, tribal leader translated from dutch) is likely getting flagged due to some natural language processing thing flagging it as offensive language. I would not be surprised that it is indeed a fully automated process deciding that your site's domain name is potentially harmful for their "brand" to support.

Re: Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta

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Post by Roark66 »

I'm sorry to hear of the op's troubles with meta, but this "No fake-news, crypto-currencies, violence, porn, or illegal activities... " is a very strange sentence. Why would the author lump "crypto currencies" along with fake-news, violence and porn?

Of course this doesn't take away from the validity of their claim and I wish this stupid shadowban is lifted. Also I hope (at least in Europe) we can get some laws passed that force large online service providers like FB to act responsibly (past record of attempts to regulate the Internet by our beaurocrats and its results notwithstanding).

Re: Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta

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Post by MBCook »

Roark66 wrote: post #106

I'm sorry to hear of the op's troubles with meta, but this "No fake-news, crypto-currencies, violence, porn, or illegal activities... " is a very strange sentence. Why would the author lump "crypto currencies" along with fake-news, violence and porn? Of course this doesn't take away from the validity of their claim and I wish this stupid shadowban is lifted. Also I hope (at least in Europe) we can get some laws passe…

My guess is there is a TON of scamming related to crypto. All those comments on Twitter or YouTube (for example) pretending to be someone important trying to get people to send a little to get a lot as a “bonus for readers” or something like that.

Plus scam coins, etc.

It’s probably far easier for them to just say “none of that” until it gets easier to tell the good from the bad.

Re: Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta

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Post by kortilla »

Roark66 wrote: post #106

I'm sorry to hear of the op's troubles with meta, but this "No fake-news, crypto-currencies, violence, porn, or illegal activities... " is a very strange sentence. Why would the author lump "crypto currencies" along with fake-news, violence and porn? Of course this doesn't take away from the validity of their claim and I wish this stupid shadowban is lifted. Also I hope (at least in Europe) we can get some laws passe…

They all land in moral gray areas for different people.

Some people view porn as far less damaging to society than crypto (at least how crypto has been primarily used YTD).

“fake news” is can very easily be abused to mean “news that doesn’t agree with my world view”.

“Violence” is vague but would coverage of what’s happening in Ukraine be put there?

Re: Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta

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Post by tarranoth »

midislack wrote: post #23

First thing I always wonder with these, what did your customer(s) do wrong?

I think it is simply the domain name itself, not anything they did. The domain name he uses (stamhoofd) translates to "head of the tribe/tribal leader". I can imagine that such a word can easily have bad connotations and nobody wants their brand to support any site with a potentially offensive name that can turn into a PR nightmare. Likely it got flagged for this reason.
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