Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok block democratic hashtags

[arn3n]

Tags “#democrat”, “#joebiden”, and #kamalaharris” have had all content blocked and removed.

Is anyone else seeing this?

[p2detar]

Is this a good time to remind people to join Mastodon? I was pleasantly surprised that there is in fact a very well sized community across Mastodon instances.

[vladms]

And HN seems to flag the topic, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777938

[beardyw → vladms]

People flag stuff. I think HN moderators may or may not remove.

[beardyw → beardyw]

I think it's one of the things you get at over 500 karma.

[alismayilov → vladms]

But how does this violates HN policies?

[weberer → alismayilov]

Users flag stories, not the mods. If you have enough points, you van "vouch" for a comment. I don't know if it works at the story level. I don't see that option at least.

[slau → weberer]

I seem to remember being able to vouch for stories. Maybe the karma limits have changed? Or it is also very possible I only remember being able to vouch for comments and confusing the two.

[chomp → slau]

You can only vouch if the story is flagged and dead

[vachina → alismayilov]

Probably wants to avoid incendiary content (that attracts low quality discourse)

[timeon → vachina]

It is usually user-based flagging. There is nothing rational about that. I've been in both (flagging/flagged) situations.

[ChrisArchitect]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777938

[DataDaemon]

aaaah.... here we go again. Left, Right, Left, Right.

[weberer]

Its very similar to what we've been seeing over the past 8 or so years. The only difference is that the shoe is now on the other foot. I wonder if we're going to see the usual echo chambers (reddit, etc) reverse polarity in the coming year.

[polotics → weberer]

Are you sure? I dont' remember the equivalent terms being blocked before.