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Ask HN: My friends house burnt down; Instagram banned him; what can he do?

3 points by paolomaffei ↗ HN
I expect this is nothing new, but it's just another example of a dystopian AI world

when he tries to login he gets the message: "You have been banned because you have violated community guidelines. You may not appeal because we have already reviewed the decision"

What really did happen is that a fundraiser was made for him, he started to post pictures of the fire and get a lot of engagement and this likely triggered Instagram spam filters

https://www.instagram.com/puerhteashop/ pretty clearly that's what happened

What can he do now?

Please if you work at Meta or similar tech companies consider the impact your AI policies have on real world people.

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badpun
> Please if you work at Meta or similar tech companies consider the impact your AI policies have on real world people.

Real world people can consider these services as broken/useless/harmful and just not use them? Then there's no negative impact. "Volenti non fit iniuria".

iExploder
These are not just some services, but rather gov unregulated global social platforms.

Getting banned from them for some people is equivalent to being banished from society in pre informational age.

Yes your don't need to visit your local market, you can always forage for berries in a forrest, good luck with that.

baremetal
thats a bit extreme and a false analogy sir.
badpun
I don't even have an Instagram account. My Facebook account is dead. Same for Twitter. I am doing fine and so are billions of other people like me.
VoodooJuJu
Meta's dystopian AI has no impact on the world. If you allow yourself to be dependent on this AI, then it can of course have an impact on your world, and your world may become some AI dystopia. But if you reject it entirely from your world, suddenly, your world is no longer an AI dystopia.

Welcome to 2022. I own no social media accounts, I have privacy, and life has never been better.

(okay, maybe HN is a social media account, but that's it)

paolomaffei
he was making a fundraiser because everything he had burned... how do you propose to do this without social media?