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A guy in my coding group got his whole account locked for a joke about a tech CEO
Honestly, it was just a dumb meme he posted in a private server with maybe 30 people. The platform flagged it as 'targeted harassment' and suspended him for a week. Tbh, the appeal process was a total black box, just automated replies. It made me wonder how many small, private chats get hit with these broad automated rules. Has anyone else seen a private group comment get flagged like that?
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william_taylor7mo ago
But private chats aren't really private on those platforms, are they?
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hunt.max7mo ago
Remember when Facebook Messenger got caught scanning links and images in private chats for ad targeting a few years back? That always stuck with me. It makes you wonder what the word "private" even means to these companies. Are they reading the actual text, or just the metadata, and does that difference matter to regular people? Feels like we're all just trusting their definition of privacy without really knowing the rules.
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barbara2786mo ago
Honestly that "trusting their definition" part is the real issue. They make the rules so they can bend them whenever it helps their business. We're basically just hoping they don't cross lines we can't even see.
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