I 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.

FWIW, I've been cut off twice, appealed twice, been reprieved twice.

Some heckler I guess.

Meh, what do you expect from a company that immediately pivoted to “free speech” and explicitly called out that it’s okay on their platform to call for firing gay teachers for being gay.

Because to do otherwise would just be too much of an assault on free speech apparently.

In other news the president signed an executive order that acknowledges flag burning is protected speech even as it promises to find a reason to prosecute people for it. Also trying to force the Smithsonian to stop talking about slavery,

I’ve experienced something similar in attempting to report very explicit and outrageously racist posts and comments. Zero action on blatant neo-Nazism (including specific threats of violence), and several lost appeals. However, far more benign posts and comments that don’t really violate the ToS are often flagged. This is quite prevalent on Instagram especially, which is quite worrying as it’s acting as a radicalisation tunnel for large numbers of impressionable young people. It’s almost as if the algorithm attempts to throw you into a far-right rabbithole because they know it boosts engagement.

Was this within the last couple years? How much you wanna bet the appeal is handled by an AI.

Had this happen to me on Reddit.

After I reported a post, nothing happened, then I messaged the mods, and they agreed with me that the post should be taken down and they did.

A day after it was taken down, I got a warning message from Reddit that my report has been rejected, and I should stop falsely reporting content, or else.

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.

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