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I posted this today in another discussion, sorry for the spamming but I think it's relevant to this one as well: We need laws that: 1) Will force social media
by Udik 6y ago
I posted this today in another discussion, sorry for the spamming but I think it's relevant to this one as well:
We need laws that:
1) Will force social media companies to provide, publicly, reasons for their blockings and takedowns, potentially exposing themselves to libel charges.
2) Allow individuals and organisations whose accounts have been blocked to download all their contents within a period of time after the blocking or removal happened.
3) Enforce standards so that the downloaded contents can be easily uploaded in bulk to alternative platforms.
- indemnity 6y agoYou can already download your data if your FB account is banned. I can still try to log in today and get access to my data as a download, but can do nothing else. Was perma banned a couple of years ago when I decided to return to FB and re-friended all my friends from before in the course of a few hours, and promptly got banned. For bot like behaviour, I assume, I never found out the cause! The data itself is innocuous posts about what I’m eating and drinking, nothing political or otherwise objectionable in any way... Amusingly, their recruiters have also approached me a few times after that via email and LinkedIn, they must not check if a prospect is banned.
- Udik 6y agoI have no idea, but the article mentions people distressed because they have lost their pictures. ("if you should find your account disabled [...] you won’t be able to get your photos back"). Now in the EU there is the GDPR that forces anyone who has your personal data to provide it on request- but I'm not sure it would prevent FB from deleting it right after the ban.