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Abortion Groups Say Tech Companies Suppress Posts and Accounts (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 5 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

TikTok has briefly suspended the account of Hey Jane, a prominent telemedicine abortion service, four times without explanation. Instagram has suspended Mayday Health, a nonprofit that provides information about abortion pill access, without explanation as well. And the search engine Bing has erroneously flagged the website for Aid Access, a major seller of abortion pills online, as unsafe.

~~Seems like someone is paying a lot of money to suppress access to information. Anyone have insight as to how to find out who specifically?~~

[–] Spotlight7573@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't necessarily need to be anyone with a lot of money, just a lot of people mass reporting things combined with automated systems.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

That’s a good point. The fact that the accounts get restored means they passed human evaluation. Systems likely block the account by default, pending review.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't know, but it sure seems like this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

FYI I tried to use piped, but got blocked asking me to sign in... I really wish we had a better YouTube alternative.

[–] reddeadhead@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago

I've been getting this lately too. I just end up downloading the video with yt-dlp to watch it.

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 2 points 5 months ago

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[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately, its their platform and their rules.... And not even rules.... Their whims.

I dont know why people expect corporations to support anything other than profit. You want free speech? For-profit, non-free platforms aren't the place to do it

[–] db2@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Abortion groups? 🤔

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Right? Do they mean anti-abortion groups, anti-natalists, or pro-choice people? What is an abortion group?

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pro-choice and birth control groups.

TikTok has briefly suspended the account of Hey Jane, a prominent telemedicine abortion service, four times without explanation. Instagram has suspended Mayday Health, a nonprofit that provides information about abortion pill access, without explanation as well. And the search engine Bing has erroneously flagged the website for Aid Access, a major seller of abortion pills online, as unsafe.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah thank you. It paywalled me so there was no context.

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah. It paywalled me too.

Some one posted the archive. That's how I read it, if you are still interested.

https://infosec.pub/comment/9869301

Archive is slow for me. I'm just going to post the article.

Link to article paste

Mods please delete if it's against the rules.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

it's like the opposite of a mom group 😉

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago