I'm banned for life from all Facebook properties (except for WhatsApp) because of my surname. They believe it's fake (or too controversial) and a copy of my passport hasn't changed their minds. I used to have a Facebook account ~13 years ago before their real name policy came into force, but I closed it because I found it awkward to refuse or accept so many contact requests by people from my distant past. Now unfortu…
and what is your surname?
Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
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#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just guessing here, but if the senteces sounded like "how to use pandas to help you in work" AI could have decided that you're going to use a cute bear to lay bricks for you. Plus the "exotic animals", as someone else mentioned.
Makes me wonder what's the worst possible phrasing "Master Python and Pandas, make them work for you, attack new challanges, earn good money"
“Minimize cost of your Python and Pandas deployment for international customers”
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#263>That’s right: I teach courses in Python and Pandas. Never mind that the first is a programming language and the second is a library for data analysis in Python. Meta’s AI system noticed that I was talking about Python and Pandas, assumed that I was talking about the animals (not the technology), and banned me. If this is true, that is insanely embarrassing for a company that purports to be a sophisticated programmat…
I wanted to run ads for my plant nursery. Their bot suspended me before I can even run my first ads. They don't tell you the reason why and you have one chance to dispute. Then it's another automated response, again, not telling you the reason, you're permanently blocked after that. Their system make it feel like they actively punish legit but inexperienced business owner while letting all sort of scam running around in the wild.
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#264Were you selling 2 or 3 pythons?
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#265I hang out in the whitewater community on Facebook and there’s tons of stories about bans for selling dagger kayaks because the systems believe you’re selling weapons. https://www.dagger.com/us/
Wow, what a fantastic example.
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> I saw a sign last year for forestry service work happening locally to me. Apparently they're only going to provide safety announcements on Facebook. There probably are (and should be) laws or regulations forbidding that, especially because "safety". OTOH, from the PoV of the lower-level Forestry Service people who decided to do that - I'd guess they're stuck in a miserably understaffed and low-budget bit of a prett…
You are most probably right, it's just the effect is the same unwanted de-facto monopoly on communications... so what's then there to do???
From "forestry service", I'll guess they're under state or federal authority, so "just be a squeaky wheel in local politics" is not an option.
Sadly, this is something that needs reliable, local news coverage. Doesn't much matter if that's a "for profit" newspaper magically transported from the Good Old Days of local journalism...or ongoing, ~thankless work in the trenches by a person or few with the skills to set up and run some flavor of local news web site (which could be very niche - say, forestry service stuff, parks & rec news, road closures & construction, etc.).
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#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, it's totally my fault that I didn't jump right away to find out why I had been banned from an advertising platform, when I'm running a one-person business and hadn't been advertising for several years.
1 year.
I hadn't advertised in several years.
I noticed the ban, and then didn't do anything about it for one year.
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#268The whole issue around not telling you what rule you broke "because then you might work around it" is total BS. It's like a company I complained to the other day because they didn't label one of the inputs on their password reset form because "it would help a hacker know what to type in it" (it was the password reset password they expected but you wouldn't know). How much quicker would this be resolved if the first A…
In 1984 they don't have laws, only crimes, so whatever you do, you have to guess if it is illegal and will be punished or not. It is on purpose to keep the population in constant fear
Franz (not Apache) Kafka's The Trial also fits the situation:
"[..] the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader."
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#269This reminds me of Instagram which I rarely use but one time when I did it indicated that I had been blocked for some reason.
You have to take a picture of yourself yes a selfie (yuck) and send it to Instagram. The funny thing is I have no selfies on Instagram so what are they using or comparing my selfie to? I was unblocked and that was that no idea what happened.
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#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
I once wanted to make a small network of bots hosted at frriend's homes. These bots would talk each other by sending some Shakespeare's play excerpts where you would replace the names of the characters by names of various criminals. Just to see how long before I get caught :-) Until I read that the law in my country explictely forbids "deceiving" the police...
how is that deceiving the police? it is a performance of fiction.
You got my point. That's why I was thinking about being backed by a lawyer 'cos at some point the discussion between "deceiving" and "acting" could be raised :-)