Tim Featherstone-Griffin

I'd love help! Digging around, it appears this is happening to LOTS of people. There is no route to appeal or even question it AFAICS

Dialogue announcing 'Download Unsuccessful'

I cannot even download y 20 years of Facebook history.

Bluesky thread, describing nonsense 'bot-detction' procedure, that ultimately results in my account being disabled

I think Facebook just disabled my account for regularly posting anti-Trump material (mostly fairly academic). I can see no other possible explanation. The image collects my thread at the time, as it happened.

They now have excellent facial-recognition data to identify me.

Please repost widely.

And Facebook, having now cancelled me, have a full side-to-side head video of me. Call me paranoid, but when was that ever a bot check? And how useful is that to facial recognition software?

Facebook dialogue that advises my account does not meet integrity standards and has been disabled.

I have been removed from Facebook.
One of my most recent posts was a @carolecadwalla.bsky.social substack about the events in Minnesota
I cannot think, outside of a major software process failure, of any reason for this to have just happened. Slightly in shock

And I haven't 'Responded to an Appeal' either. I've just responded to what purported to be a bot check. I now appear to be in the last chance saloon! WTF?!

Totally this. If you're a heavyweight user of email and have a decent process, you can bend it to your will. Whatsapp is appalling for any kind of comms that matters.

Happy to be retired and not have to care. But amazed there are now 'Whatsapp' companies!

It seems a very odd dialogue: being or not being a bot is barely anything to do with 'community standards' and I'm pretty certain I've not posted anything that could be complained about. Like they've used a response dialogue created for something else.

Facebook dialogue box advising that 'you have submitted an appeal'

Mid-post 5 minutes ago, FB demanded I prove I'm human. Pass through a 'type the numbers in the pic' process, then was required to do a head-turn video. Once that was uploaded, I was presented with this.

Are they having a bot-clearout? Or has Zuck decided he doesn't like my Trump-critical posts?

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.

"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."

"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."

ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

Too funny, how little it takes to expose these squalid little goons.

I'd love to know what Matt's Mum and Dad make of his wretched failure, academically, morally, in life.

Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this | Marina Hyde Truly, I am the country’s biggest fan. But in the spirit of free speech its leaders apparently love, here’s a few things the rest of the world needs them to know, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

I doubt that too many of my American friends here will disagree with the thrust of this. But it is much what me and my English friends see.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thought much the same listening to him on WATO. There were better journalists on my school newspaper.

Not a shred of humanity, morality or history. Basically, stupid.

The epitome of the Brexit-era incompetent Tory politician, Snarky, ill-tempered, thick as mince.

This is a bigger story than anything that happens in Minnesota. The most popular social media news source in the US is now censoring anti-Trump content and sanctioning users who create it. Total state control of the media.

This is super

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

The director of the FBI: "I don't read."

His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Classy

Agreed.

Trump’s Board of Peace logo is basically the UN logo, except dipped in gold and edited so the world only includes America.

Trump: Give me Greenland or I'll take it

Denmark: You can have a couple military bases, which you already have

Batya: ART OF THE DEAL!

If you need to hear one meaningful thing from Davos, this is definitely what that historian has to say.
No more philanthropy, just tax the rich.

And then in Switzerland he said "Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German". #Davos

To be honest - and I find it hard - I thought him much more insightful about how to deal with Trump than anyone else on the programme.

Fact-checking Donald Trump's Davos speech The US president made a series of contested claims, ranging from the status of Greenland to Nato spending.

TL;DR No

Did the US give Greenland back after WWII?

Is the US paying for 99% of Nato's defence?

Has the US got nothing from Nato?

Does China have no windfarms?

Does the UK take 92% of North Sea oil revenue?

Has Trump secured $18tn in US investments?

#newsnight
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This Is Fascism