Comment by mingus88
1 year ago
I left FB in 2012 mostly because they wouldn’t allow me to share articles about how to properly secure your profile and posts. These were all innocuous sources such as Ars Technica that were pro-privacy.
The blocks were immediate, which suggested there was a blocklist or URLs that FB did not want you to broadcast to your friends if they were even marginally critical of FB.
Looking back, staying off of Meta properties was probably the wisest move I could have made.
I got two posts blocked only: (summary) "I'm back in town, does anyone want to hang out" and a marketplace post selling a cable, which they can't tell apart from someone trying to sell a tv cable service/access. And I'm sure I posted something actually questionable over the years.
Whatever the system they were using, it's terrible quality and I'm sure they could improve it.