Had a talk with a streamer who got deplatformed twice

I was chatting with a guy in a Discord server last week who had his channel nuked twice on different platforms for talking about election security. He showed me the emails from both companies and they were super vague, just said 'policy violation' with no specifics. It hit different because he wasn't pushing conspiracy theories, just linking to public data and asking questions. Has anyone here actually gotten a clear explanation from a platform when they got taken down?

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abbyc3315d ago

Yeah, that "policy violation" with no details is pretty much standard. I had a channel flagged for "misinformation" once and they never gave me a straight answer either. My advice is to screenshot everything as soon as you get the email, even the whole page URL. Platforms use automated systems that flag based on keywords, so if he was linking to datasheets with certain terms, that could be it. Best move is to request a human review, but even that is a gamble. I ended up appealing three times before someone actually looked at my content, and they still didn't explain the rule I supposedly broke. Bottom line is you never get a clear explanation, you just learn what not to post by trial and error.

caseys3015d agoMost Upvoted

I actually JUST read something about this - turns out a LOT of these automated flagging systems are trained on super broad keywords and even context from the comments section. So if someone ELSE in the thread used a trigger word, that could ding the whole post. It's a MESS.