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  • Got permanent ban on Facebook

    Got permanent ban on Facebook

    That account has been created basically due to a weird problem – a medical institution I was looking for a way to book an appointment claimed they use FB messenger.

    But later I found other place to get necessary assistance.

    So I decided to keep account, and used it to follow local pro-EU opposition news outlets, public figures, and few local accounts writing about magic.

    I tried to use professional mode on account just to see what it is about and than switched it off.

    Eventually I marked anything as friends-only there.

    I wrote few civil comments to some news articles.

    At some moment one of my comment got😡 (angry) reaction.

    I guess this is somehow related to the fact that Facebook soon demanded a video-selfie proof that I am not a robot.

    And I was like “ok, facebook” (a-la “ok, boomer”) at first. But at another day I tried to do it from my phone, as I don’t have camera at my PC. And few hours later it ended up with reply from facebook that I my appeal declined and permanently banned and I can’t appeal again anymore.

    I find this whole situation infuriating.

    I even thought to start a campaign to promote Mastodon & Fediverse here in Georgia country, as almost nobody knows about Fediverse here.

    But considering worsening political climate via the increasingly repressive policies of pro-Kremlin government by “Georgian Dream” and its founder, a billionaire Ivanishvili, I guess, soon people here may need more protected/private ways of communication than that, which can be prepared for state actor threats like servers seizure or admins being arrested.

    As 95% people here in Georgia country keep using Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and some – Threads, even after few cases of arrests and fines for criticism and being dissent in comments on Facebook, with its “mandatory real name policy”, I wonder what else should happen to make sure people would leave Meta products en masse here.

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  • Facebook will punish you

    Facebook will punish you

    Yes, facebook will punish you for attempt to sign up.

    Especially if you selected to sign up without mobile phone number.

    And my brand new account without phone number has been suspended like within hour after creation.

    They required video selfie to prove me I am not a robot.

    I guess it is possible to trick this if you need to, when you have “state actor” scale of resources.

    But even after that I got email scream from FB they decided to block my account and demand to verify it. But I can’t do anythng about that, nor “prove I don’t want to use the

    I created it because I live in Georgia country where like 99.99% people use this just to communicate via FB messenger, and for insta to communicate with local businesses which are using that either as messaging platform at their websites or they use insta as storefront.

    Sometimes even to schedule an appointment to a medical clinic without waiting for hour on call (old-fashioned approach)may require communication via FB messenger.

    PS: It finally accepted my video selfie.

    I feel like every new accounts go through something like this.

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