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НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И (ИЛИ) РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ [ФИО] ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА [ФИО] НОРМА ПРИЗНАНА НЕЗАКОННОЙ РЕШЕНИЕМ ЕСПЧ

Addressing Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s policy team regarding a disturbing pattern: sudden, apparently automated account blocks affecting independent public voices connected to Russia.

Facebook is locking out Russia-based users - often abruptly, with little explanation. This looks like a false-positive automation problem, and it can be fixed.

Here is the technical irony. Facebook has been blocked in Russia since 2022, Meta has been designated an “extremist organization” by Russian authorities, so users must rely on VPNs and frequent IP/location changes simply to access the platform. That necessary “survival behavior” may be misread by security systems as inauthentic or bot-like activity - and real people lose years of contacts, archives, and professional ties.

Facebook remains one of the few bridges between an increasingly closed society and the outside world. Meta should not be unintentionally dismantling the last vestiges of connectivity and aiding authoritarian censorship through automated enforcement.

The solution exists: clearer rules, human-reviewed appeals, and privacy-safe verification.

#meta #Facebook #zuckerberg #DigitalRights #AcademicFreedom #stoptheblocks

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НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И (ИЛИ) РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ [ФИО] ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА [ФИО] НОРМА ПРИЗНАНА НЕЗАКОННОЙ РЕШЕНИЕМ ЕСПЧ

Addressing Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s policy team regarding a disturbing pattern: sudden, apparently automated account blocks affecting independent public voices connected to Russia.

Facebook is locking out Russia-based users - often abruptly, with little explanation. This looks like a false-positive automation problem, and it can be fixed.

Here is the technical irony. Facebook has been blocked in Russia since 2022, Meta has been designated an “extremist organization” by Russian authorities, so users must rely on VPNs and frequent IP/location changes simply to access the platform. That necessary “survival behavior” may be misread by security systems as inauthentic or bot-like activity - and real people lose years of contacts, archives, and professional ties.

Facebook remains one of the few bridges between an increasingly closed society and the outside world. Meta should not be unintentionally dismantling the last vestiges of connectivity and aiding authoritarian censorship through automated enforcement.

The solution exists: clearer rules, human-reviewed appeals, and privacy-safe verification.

#meta #Facebook #zuckerberg #DigitalRights #AcademicFreedom #stoptheblocks

src: https://t.me/eschulmann/8550

“'When they say faculty aren’t allowed to advocate for something, what we read that as is, they aren’t allowed to mention it,'” said one academic adviser, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliatory discipline."

The conflation of advocacy & teaching, which are fundamentally different, & which sometimes overlap & sometimes don't, is a key tool of the movement to demolish academic freedom & destroy universities.

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/04/texas-tech-race-gender-sexuality-review-creighton/

#Education #Censorship #AcademicFreedom #Universities

“'When they say faculty aren’t allowed to advocate for something, what we read that as is, they aren’t allowed to mention it,'” said one academic adviser, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliatory discipline."

The conflation of advocacy & teaching, which are fundamentally different, & which sometimes overlap & sometimes don't, is a key tool of the movement to demolish academic freedom & destroy universities.

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/04/texas-tech-race-gender-sexuality-review-creighton/

#Education #Censorship #AcademicFreedom #Universities