Instagram Suppresses Political Speech + Disables Punching Back on Your Own Content
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Political speech is a two way street and recently there are a lot of people about to get run over for weaving around dangerously…
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So I made a political joke post, one in the spirit of Norm MacDonald. Basically, it’s not really a setup-punchline frame, it’s self-reflexive, um, genetically it’s just a punchline hanging out there, get it or not. What was the post content?
The childish attitude of “If we didn’t win you must have cheated!” is really pathetic and makes you sound like even more of a loser.
Like, I know the tools of the trade. I’m also in the Writing business. On my Instagram Business Profile. A mob of shitposters showed up. I did get to hear some new conspiracy theories! The one about the attack on Donald Trump while in the White House because Hillary? I don’t even. I’ll wait for Jordan Klepper to find it in the wild.
How I Got Punished for “Community Standards” by Instagram
Took me a bit of sleep but my brain figured it out. Why are they allowed to keep posting on my content, but I can’t reply to message after message of right-wing lunacy? Oh, and for the record, when I did try to curb stomp five posts by one guy at once — he told me to play my guitar in the Israel / Palestine battlefield in rainbow shorts — and I was going to tell him that sounded like a great idea. Both sides will agree I’m FUCKING AWESOME PINK SHORTS OR NOT HE SHREDS DAMN LET’S JUST CHILL AND VIBE FOR A MINUTE!
The post would go through. The caption I wrote disappeared. Ahem, it went somewhere else in the Instagram system without disclosure or accountability and that violates my Terms of Service regarding my content. This is my Writer career after all. See? Here? This for-pay article?
Oh, right, what got Instagram so upset they took away my ability to use political and earned knowledge to my advantage…
Ya know what, you really are the best representative ever of the LemonParty.com type of political opinion!
Disclosure: I forget if it’s .com or .org but obviously I ain’t going to check because that’s the punchline, and obviously whoever at Instagram looked it up was not pleased with the direction of modern political chat actually being effective and mature…so they let some dude rant like crazy. That poor van of his…down by the river…
