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The crimes of Meta

When Facebook's faceless bots accused me of contravening community standards by trying to give away some old furniture on Marketplace and abruptly threw me off the platform with no proper explanation, I took it personally. I mean, here is one of the world's most sleazy, corrupt and dishonest corporations - Meta - telling me that I contravened community standards. But I take solace in knowing that I am just one of many, many thousands of former Facebook users to have been unceremoniously ejected from the platform by its deeply unintelligent AI systems. From the start of…

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Read more about the article Farewell my lovely, the end of the affair

Farewell my lovely, the end of the affair

This week I posted some furniture items on Facebook Marketplace. It was very routine; something I'd done scores of times in the past. But something in the posts upset Facebook's bots and I got an email telling me that I had "violated its advertising policies". Which was clearly bullshit, but there is no way to talk to Facebook's bots. Within a minute I got another email telling me my account had been suspended. So in an instant my entire Facebook account was wiped, along with Messenger and all my contacts. Gone. Completely. I was now gone…

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Read more about the article Life’s ironic behind the digital curtain

Life’s ironic behind the digital curtain

The Iron Curtain was not something you wanted to live behind, in my Cold War youth. All I knew about it came from media pundits and politicians, and they were pretty convinced that the folk who lived behind that impenetrable veil of metal were doing it tough. Primarily what they lacked was freedom, but also good movies, clothes and luxuries of various sorts. Powerful ruling elites in the countries behind the iron curtain looked after themselves, first and foremost, and the common herd ran a distant last in priorities. Vast resources were expended on weapons that…

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