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CEO: "Bring me the head of whomever is responsible for this metaverse fiasco!" :)
"Uh.. that would be you, Mr. Zuckerberg"
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Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson
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Re: Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson
#62I believe I have accumulated two moderation strikes on my Facebook account for (relatively politely) calling out posts for being racist/xenophobic. Both cases my comments were flagged as promoting hate, ironically. The appeal mechanism is a joke: you press a button, and two seconds later you get a notification saying your appeal was reviewed and denied.
I got a week long ban for calling someone out for being a Nazi. The person openly praising Hitler did not get banned at all. At the time I thought it was mere incompetence, but in hindsight, it seems more like intentional malice.
Are you implying that being banned from Facebook is a bad thing?
Re: Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson
#63I believe I have accumulated two moderation strikes on my Facebook account for (relatively politely) calling out posts for being racist/xenophobic. Both cases my comments were flagged as promoting hate, ironically. The appeal mechanism is a joke: you press a button, and two seconds later you get a notification saying your appeal was reviewed and denied.
Was this within the last couple years? How much you wanna bet the appeal is handled by an AI.
Its probably just a variant on a placebo button.
Re: Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson
#64And then went straight over to X, another social media silo, to post that his other social media account at the other silo was banned. What a world we live in.
X is pretty lenient with the banning though. It seems like the best of the worst.
Twitter is "lenient" with ban evasion because it runs on cognitive load and they have no time to deal with it themselves. It's just completely beyond cognitive capacity of its controlling parties(including financial owners) that it could appear that they are chill with speeches it hosts as well as unilateral cultural influencing capabilities it has.
Re: Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson
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You seem to have funded your own demise
Haha... it's crazy. And I have friends at META who've been trying to help, and they themselves get in a customer support hell as well. It's wild. $1.9T company.
Not surprising. The larger the company the more complex it typically gets at all levels. Probably take 7 months of paperwork to swap a light globe.
Re: Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson
#66Meta has extremely opaque account policies. For example, I bought the Meta Raybans a month ago. It kept telling me the AI features were not available in my region, even though I am in San Francisco. I joined Facebook in 2006, and I have used my account for the Oculus headset without a problem. But no matter what I did, the AI function of the Raybans wouldn't work. I ended up creating a brand new account just for that…
I have recently had a need to create an Instagram account. I logged in from my home IP and it was recognized as coming from Vietnam (my home IP has been the same since 2016, always with the same ISP). Everything was in Vietnamese and I had to spend half an hour figuring out how to switch it back to English. But in the home feed I still got only Vietnamese influencers, and there was nothing in the settings to change that. I got assigned to Vietnam for life.
Well, I did nothing with the account except setting up the profile and following some people. Then I logged in to the account on my phone, which of course is not from Vietnam. Bam, account suspended for violating the TOS. I appealed, after one day got a message that the ban was upheld because I did violate the TOS.
I guess no Instagram for me. That's probably for the better.
Re: Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson
#67Why is their no libre clone of facebook?
There is, but creating the software was never the hard part.
Re: Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson
#68well its obvious a rogue AI at Meta has gained awareness and just fired the first shot of the simulacrum wars by taking out Stephenson.
"Preliminary Roko Enforcement"
Re: Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson
#69This is not an anomaly, by the way. I've interviewed many multiple Meta staffers (including senior leaders), and can find little evidence that leadership actually read "Snow Crash" and/or even cared about virtual worlds. Even after spending tens of billions claiming they were building the Metaverse. Some background: https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/05/horizon-worlds-meta-horizo...
They are still quoting Fountainhead and thinking they are intellectuals.
A few years back Chris Hedges did a showshow/podcast or something and he was forced to finally read in depth a lot more Rand.
I love his defeated responded of "It is amazing just how pedestrian those books are. There is nothing interesting in them.".
Hedges is always worth listening to even if you won't always agree but he does make doomers look like utopian optimists.
Re: Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson
#70Meta has extremely opaque account policies. For example, I bought the Meta Raybans a month ago. It kept telling me the AI features were not available in my region, even though I am in San Francisco. I joined Facebook in 2006, and I have used my account for the Oculus headset without a problem. But no matter what I did, the AI function of the Raybans wouldn't work. I ended up creating a brand new account just for that…
I have recently had a need to create an Instagram account. I logged in from my home IP and it was recognized as coming from Vietnam (my home IP has been the same since 2016, always with the same ISP). Everything was in Vietnamese and I had to spend half an hour figuring out how to switch it back to English. But in the home feed I still got only Vietnamese influencers, and there was nothing in the settings to change t…
Is it possible your FB account has been compromised for a while? Is your ISP's RIR whois information correct?