Multiple times now, my account or my organisational accounts have been locked out or suspended & I've been able to get others to make enough noise about it to get it fixed in a day
That's a privilege. Millions don't have it. Millions are locked out permanently & lose everything
That's a privilege. Millions don't have it. Millions are locked out permanently & lose everything
I actually lost a ton of my photojournalism & event coverage (years worth) when @OccupyNZ was arbitrarily suspended without reason. Likewise, we lost a huge piece of activism history when @OccupyAuckland was suspended years earlier.
Arbitrary suspensions really are book burning
Arbitrary suspensions really are book burning
It's the digital equivalent of someone saying "I didn't like your behaviour today so I'm going to set all of your personal photo albums and your home movie collection on fire and I'm not actually going to tell you what you did that made me do this to you. Don't like it? Too bad."
It's a fundamentally unbalanced and abusive response to an alleged user action
No opportunity to retrieve your data before they shut you down, no provision of your account archive... the whole thing just reeks of a platform drunk on an unequal power dynamic that favours them
No opportunity to retrieve your data before they shut you down, no provision of your account archive... the whole thing just reeks of a platform drunk on an unequal power dynamic that favours them
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