Subj : Re: New Years Resolution
To   : esc
From : Adept
Date : Sat Jan 21 2023 12:28:45

 es> The overwhelming majority of Facebook users are not impacted by any
 es> moderation policies whatsoever. Statistically about 0.1% of Facebook
 es> users will have a post taken down, and if you consider that the bulk of
 es> /those/ moderation cases are due to people and bots spamming, the number
 es> is even smaller.

Do the overwhelming majority of Facebook users even _post_ anything?

I still use Facebook, but I posted five things last year. I have not had a post removed, but about as controversial I get is talking about Public Domain Day and complaining about how these things should have been in public domain decades ago.

But I have had a variety of friends end up in Facebook jail, oftentimes for things that _should_ have been fine. And, yeah, a couple of over-the-top political things, but also things like, "he showed a nipple, but I guess wasn't masculine enough for the censors to be okay with it".

Or a sex worker (as in, one engaging in completely-legal behavior) explaining an online interaction with a guy who popped up and demanded she doing something for him, for free.

Or, in other words, something _directly_ related to her life that made her day worse, that illustrated some of the challenges she faces, and how terrible some people can be, but because she said, "I charge $x for sex chat" in the conversation she had with the guy, it landed her in Facebook jail.

I won't dive into goodness or badness of this (that's definitely political, whereas the rest of this has been personal anecdotes), beyond saying that, legally, Facebook can do what they want, and it's kind of interesting that the US law that made that true came about because of discussions in the CompuServe/Prodigy/BBSs era in the early 1990s.

But, yeah, those were anecdotes. It seems like it'd be a significantly-larger portion of the highly active userbase, but I don't have numbers of how many people have gotten temp bans. And I'm sure that my bubble is not a representative sample of Facebook users.

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