This is why the centralization of all social interaction on a few big platforms is a cause for concern. Some of the blame lies with people too; ideally, companies such as Adafruit would simply run a Discourse instance (or another forum software), and have users communicate there and receive web push notifications, and so on, instead of just using a large social platform.<p>As for Facebook, there are no disincentives for over-moderation. After all, it is better to over-censor and avoid attracting negative news coverage, the attention of legislators, and negative sentiments among people.
Any content where it looks like you are holding a gun to your head can be flagged. Power drills and hairdryers are close enough to do it and that kind of makes sense — both those objects can really hurt you if you push them up against your temples.<p>What seems to be missing though is the basic Bayesian statistics to go from finding a few instances of things that <i>might</i> look like self harm, to determining the whole video is about self harm.<p>It feels like the equivalent of millions of dollars of speech recognition being able to pick out individual voices, accents, and languages, only to then make final decision by string matching a list of known obscenities to the transcript thereby banning all videos about Scunthorpe.
I often get stunned over how wrong facebook's algorithms constantly are. I get that they try out things a lot and it results in some weird stuff happening but facebook is overall the worst from my point of view.
Just leave thoose platforms (Facebook, Twitter, etc...). Really... If no users, no ads, no money then the platform disappear... And voilà! If a trusted and trustfull post from Adafruit is not allowed to be public, imagine what can be "censored" too.
Facebook isn't who censored adafruit. Obviously you realize 'hate speech' isn't true at all, yet here we are.<p>34 minutes long, so near impossible to figure out what exactly is the objectionable material but you clearly hit a US government list. They for some reason don't want you to publish this video.<p>What some people do is cut down this video into 11 videos and then post them 1 at a time and see which one the US government doesn't want you to publish.
It appears that they may be reaping what they have sown: <a href="https://facebook.com/adafruitindustries/photos/pb.67836792577.-2207520000../10158729541297578/?wtsid=rdr_0cbZspxoUJ7QGiXiZ" rel="nofollow">https://facebook.com/adafruitindustries/photos/pb.6783679257...</a><p>When you give megacorporations unnacountable power to censor speech, that power will be abused.