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Few weeks back I posted a comment on Instagram. A warning popped up that it wasn't as per community standards.

I understood that it was wrongthink, so I immediately deleted my comment.

The warning system on Instagram comments is good for protecting you from committing Thoughtcrime.

My wife recently had a comment nuked on a six year old post asking "describe your job in an accurate but misleading way", to which she responded "I shoot babies" (she does some photography).

It's remarkably twitchy in some ways, and remarkably blind in others.

Almost like the enforcement is highly selective and rife with abuse worse than the comments themselves. Huh, weird.

Honestly, I’m more of the opinion that they’re just cheaping out on moderation. You can’t appeal most violations now “due to COVID”, which has been a bullshit excuse for understaffing for years now.

Appealing an unjust activity from them got me in even more trouble. They had put me in 24 hours FB jail for 'indecent' content against community standards for posting a picture of my son in his bathing suit at the beach -- which their algorithm had somehow misidentified as nudity. I appealed, was denied, and as a result of appealing, spent almost a month with my posts downranked etc.

They are vile.

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