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> over the past several years, Not, say, in the past few months? > there has been a sharp increase in reports of social media platforms removing or suppressin
by teddyh 2y ago
> over the past several years,
Not, say, in the past few months?
> there has been a sharp increase in reports of social media platforms removing or suppressing abortion-related content, even when no law requires platforms to do so
What platforms? What abortion-related content?
- hn_acker 2y ago> What platforms? What abortion-related content? Did you try skimming some of the references on the linked page? > Reporting and Research > Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts (New York Times) > TikTok Keeps Removing Abortion Pill Content (WIRED) > Obstacles to Autonomy: Post-Roe Removal of Abortion Information Online (Amnesty International There's also a reference to a site called Repro Uncensored [2]. Another click brought me to "Amnesty International USA x Plan C x WFD: How Abortion Information is Restricted Online" [3]. [1] https://www.eff.org/pages/stop-censoring-abortion https://www.eff.org/pages/stop-censoring-abortion [2] https://www.reprouncensored.org/ https://www.reprouncensored.org/ [3] https://www.reprouncensored.org/research/abortion-restricted https://www.reprouncensored.org/research/abortion-restricted
- teddyh 2y ago> Did you try skimming some of the references on the linked page? I honestly missed them. So, it seems to be TikTok and Facebook (including Instagram) removing abortion-related things (not very precisely defined) after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Which seems on its face somewhat reasonable; if something is no longer universally legal in all states, it might be categorized in with other things not nationally legal, and treated the same.