{"id":9467,"date":"2022-04-15T12:56:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T11:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=9467"},"modified":"2022-04-15T12:56:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T11:56:51","slug":"the-blocking-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2022\/04\/15\/the-blocking-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"The blocking wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems I&#8217;m not the only one to be abruptly blocked on Facebook. Birmingham Live (<em>The Birmingham Post &amp; Mail<\/em>) reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/music-nightlife-news\/facebook-deletes-elo-rock-legend-23697453\">Facebook deletes ELO rock legend Bev Bevan\u2019s account<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He is the fourth person to have contacted BirminghamLive after accounts have been blocked, including Tamworth show-home furniture businesswoman, Gemma Pountney, grieving Birmingham mum, Alison Cope, and cafe owner Sarah Exall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Coverage in America also complains of abrupt blocking of accounts of those deemed &#8216;too popular&#8217;. It&#8217;s very probably just some stupid mis-management decision cascading down the system, although Putin must be happy that management dunderheads and their drones are effectively doing his work for him.<\/p>\n<p>Well sod &#8217;em, I&#8217;m gone now. There were only four Groups of interest there, other than mine, and three of them were only sporadic and weren&#8217;t all that useful. Indeed one Group, run as a front for the local Socialist Workers Party (or whatever they call themselves now) was only visited for a chuckle.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Elon Musk is set on buying Twitter and restoring free-speech, I might even get an account over there at last&#8230; when he takes over there. For re-posting blog-posts only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems I&#8217;m not the only one to be abruptly blocked on Facebook. Birmingham Live (The Birmingham Post &amp; Mail) reports Facebook deletes ELO rock legend Bev Bevan\u2019s account&#8230; He is the fourth person to have contacted BirminghamLive after accounts have been blocked, including Tamworth show-home furniture businesswoman, Gemma Pountney, grieving Birmingham mum, Alison Cope, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}