A Bunch of Mastodon Posts (from mstdn.social) Were Deleted for “Fake News” and “Violent and Harassing”, and I Was Finally Banned. Here’s a Few.

A Bunch of Mastodon Posts (from mstdn.social) Were Deleted for “Fake News” and “Violent and Harassing”. Here’s a Few.

These are actual examples of what I was shown as the reason behind the bans.

Making fun of CNN and TikTok, criticizing the law in Illinois, discussing that Facebook and Reddit are nasty and spy on people.

And insulting the King of Mstdn.social.

Disrespecting the moderator was a mild taunt regarding them being too dumb to figure out what fake news is despite me always citing “the news” from a place like NPR or CNN or something that I was referring to.

Don’t use Mastodon. It’s a waste of your time.

The servers are banning each other and it’s turned into a bunch of nasty SJWs on one side and their counterparts, the Nazis and Child Pornographers on the other.

There’s nowhere for an anti-dogmatic Atheist Left-Libertarian with a sense of humor.

Dogma traps people into beliefs that are absolutely insane. And they never justify those beliefs with any evidence. No, things have to be this way “because they’ve always been that way”.

Some people got together a long time ago, thousands of years before people understood anything, and when living to 30 made you a village elder, and decided it was so.

Or in politics, instead of religion. When a political theory fails to produce the desired result, you just double down on the theory. If your criminal justice reforms are followed by a 40% spike in violent crime in Chicago, yet you continue on as if they were helping.

When people complain about the crime, you say “You have to go along with this or else you’re racist!”. Okay, nobody said anything about that. We look at what you did, and what happened and go “Wait. This isn’t working. Why don’t you go and enforce the laws you have before you come back and tell me you want more?”

Or finance and tax policy. “What did you do with the money I already gave you?”

The government, “Oh, we have 75,000 rotting empty buildings and we’re testing cocaine on beagle puppies!”

When you’re skeptical of church, the government, and “accepted” economic theories, all of which have ruined the world by any and all objective reasoning, you are “evil”.

You’re the one with the problem. If a lot of people are wrong, you must be wrong, because there are more of them than you.

At the heart of the matter, this is why Social Networking, even if it’s not some multi-billion company that runs ads everywhere and gives the FBI backdoors, possibly can’t actually work.

What’s going on in Mastodon, the “banned server list” is public, and that’s a “feature” of the software, they decide what you get to see _for you_, is that they’re building a Tower of Babel where it may be open source, but it’s an echo chamber of fools and idiots.

Like “stux”.

I think I’ve decided that I refuse to be muzzled by the Speech Nazis just so I can have an account somewhere, which may well get trashed anyway because the moderator disagrees with something I said, which wasn’t even offensive.

I’m Back After WordPress.com Deleted My Blog Over the Weekend.

Minutes after posting the commentary on the NBC news article about Apple (post prior to this one), my blog became “suspended”.

I didn’t know what was going on, so I assumed I had been cancelled again, like Reddit, where if you post anything anywhere some special snowflake decides (often through a bot designed to sniff out no no words) that you should be banned.

Automattic (WordPress.com) refuses to say what led to the ban, but it’s quite obvious through my history of posts about Apple’s censorship, proprietary software, the Microsoft Stabber, etc. that there are probably outfits that would rather that I just go away and not come back.

Automattic says that there’s no robot going around killing blogs without human review, but beyond this, I have no idea and I’ll never be able to prove anything.

Things became a little more complicated when I went ahead and shut down my account, and then someone suggested I should appeal the ban.

I think I’ve been on the “modern” Internet too long where people just silently “murder” your account with a gun pressed up to a pillow and was just no longer thinking in terms of “You can appeal this and there’s actually going to be someone that considers it.”, because again, Reddit.

I deleted my account at Reddit a while back because I was running into issues where I would say something like “That’s crazy!” in response to something incredulous and I would get banned, by a bot, which said “You said crazy, and crazy is an ableist term!” *spank spank spank*

Combined with the fact that Reddit just went and handed over tons of data about some users on one of its forums to a copyright troll didn’t help all of this go down much better. It got me thinking, you know, if you browse around, they’re watching you. Logging you. Would it not be best if they didn’t have that data?

So I’ve been increasingly “disconnecting” from proprietary “social” media, because it’s all rather bullshit anyway, full of trolls and creepy companies.

After this run in with Automattic I’m seriously considering just backing up this entire blog and self-hosting so that nobody else can “complain”.

You know, the whole thing about “You violated the terms!” Oh, what terms? “TERMS!”

Apparently this is just how Automattic rolls.

And why should we be surprised in this day and age?

I was already banned from Mastodon.social after three days for insulting the Chinese Communist government and talking about Bill Gates.

I was already banned from Mastodon.social after three days (of actually using it much) for insulting the Chinese Communist government and talking about Bill Gates.

My Mastodon.social account was “Limited” today and they cited “the rules” without actually citing any rules. But they did list three posts that were the reason they did it.

I have screenshots and you can decide for yourself if this is another Social Control Media site like Facebook and Twitter.

Fortunately, Mastodon is federated, so I’ve made another account at mstdn.social and pinned a “I’m not here anymore.” message for anyone who was following me to see, so they know where I am at now.

We’ll see how this goes.