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Sorry this happened to your wife. I actually can't for the life of me figure out why there's no business model to address this, as it is a common enough type o
by GWBullshit 4y ago
Sorry this happened to your wife.
I actually can't for the life of me figure out why there's no business model to address this, as it is a common enough type of occurrence on numerous social media platforms; some examples I've personally encountered:
- Friend put in Facebook jail for being tagged in what Facebook found to be an offensive post; people tagged in the post were also put in FB jail, yet ironically the original spamming poster never was
- Friend put in Facebook jail for reporting a clear violation of Facebook's terms of service to Facebook, meanwhile nothing happened to the violator's account
- Myself having been put in FB jail because of a picture of a statue that showed side-boobage; meanwhile "artistic photography" FB pages featuring full, shaven frontal nudity (among other things) were allowed to persist
- Myself having been flagged by FB's "new Ai" during the outbreak of Covid for an "offensive post" ... because I put up a music video that feature zero nudity/sexuality/violence/racism/sexism, yet it supposedly "went against community standards"
- During the period the previous account was flagged by FB Ai, it was flagged again and I got a message that "Our records indicate you were previously flagged in the recent past, and being flagged in the recent past is now a flaggable offense in itself, so we're giving you another month in FB jail"
- While in FB jail, got another message that "I violated the conditions of FB jail (not even sure how this is technically possible) by posting more content "against community standards" (while ALL features of my account were disabled for a month), and so no we're taking this account offline"
Lost EVERYTHING including a contacts list built up over the course of years
Recent Reddit incident where Reddit spam filters mistakenly identified my own posts on my own subreddit that were crosslinked NOWHERE as "spam", resulting in the subreddit being banned (and losing shit-tons of info on the subreddit); Reddit agreed that this was done "in error" but has so far failed to help retrieve any of the lost data on the subreddit ...
Considering how many similar stories I've come across in my research and how important our social media lives/data/contact lists are ...
I would GLADLY either:
1.) Pay a reasonable fee for services with an actual liability clause/customer service contact number OR
2.) Pay for some intermediary service that would take up complaints and find a way to get through to social media companies and be like, "WTF?!?" on behalf of their customers
- coredog64 4y agoI can see a scrappy group of ex (or even current) Meta employees creating a service using their inside knowledge.
- rglullis 4y agoCan't you just pay for a service provider directly that does not build a business around offering "free" services in exchange of data harvesting and exploitation?