At a moment when Zuckerberg’s focus is clearly on sucking up to the Trump administration, Instagram goes the extra mile to block hashtags like #democrat and #democrats from Instagram.
Officially it’s a mistake, with some tool from the company giving the following statement:
We’re aware of an error affecting hashtags across the political spectrum and we are working quickly to resolve it.
Despite their claim to affect “across the political spectrum”, the “problem” seems to affect both #democrat and #democrats, but neither the hashtags #republican nor #republicans.
Here’s a video of said behaviour documented by a PeerTube user (@letydoesstuff@peertube.doesstuff.social):
https://peertube.doesstuff.social/w/f8c84bb5-3dec-45a1-b833-3b3f0736c4e8
Is this the beginning of the end? Homestretch authoritarianism.
#peoplesparty
But the Democrats are not the People’s Party or they wouldn’t have driven off so many of the people with their Palestine policy.
The Democrats are just slightly more polite versions of the Plutocrat Party which is the real, single party of US politics. Democrats/Republicans is just the grift that makes you think you’ve got choices that matter.
