Votes for Women, the critically acclaimed card-driven wargame about the fight for women's suffrage in the US, stands to miss out on up to $60,000 of backing for its second print run after Facebook repeatedly banned ads for the game due to it featuring a "sensitive social issue".
  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    10 months ago

    Facebook once again proves that they are staunch advocates of free speech only as long as you’re spreading hate and misinformation… What kind of idiot would ever say that a game about a historical event from over 100 years ago is a “sensitive social issue”? Who is still debating wether or not women have the right to vote?

    Deleting my Facebook account 7 years ago was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made lol

    • Troy@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      151·
      10 months ago

      I also deleted my Facebook account many years ago. Maybe 2012 or 2013. But that reminds me of a joke: how do you know someone isn’t on Facebook – don’t worry, they’ll tell you! When I closed mine, I actually went through their download content process, then removed each post and photo and such. I know that this doesn’t mean actual deletion. For a while I left the account active only so I could be notified if someone tagged me in a photo (so I could untag it), but eventually just shut it all down.

      Fast forward 7+ years…

      I started a small business a few years ago. I tried to do account recovery on my previous Facebook account in order to set up the business page. Just wanted to reserve the name and link directly to our real website, to prevent bad actors from impersonating the business. Managed to recover my account, proving that it was never really deleted even 7+ years later (surprise surprise). Got the business page set up, and then several hours later got locked out, with Facebook demanding I send copies of my real government issued id. WTF. Well, task was complete, so fuck em.

      • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        13·
        10 months ago

        Instagram needed my real government id to prove my age for my dog’s instagram page. I sent them copies of my late son’s fake id and they accepted it.

      • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        This makes me want to see what content Facebook still has with my name on it and try to get as much of it removed as possible…

  • Troy@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    16·
    10 months ago

    Posting here solely as an exercise in the Streisand effect. ;)

  • tygerprints@kbin.social
    121·
    10 months ago

    But it’s OK to advertise for more violence oriented games, because no one cares if people get murdered, that’s surely not a “sensitive” issue. Votes for women IS a sensitive social issue and it should be - hence the necessity for games that teach us all more about it.

    This is the kind of reverse thinking that goes on here in Utah all the time. We should not let teachers talk about women’s rights or the downtrodden native americans (which is now against the law here) but only teach that white people always do the right thing and have never raised a finger to hurt anybody.

    I’m looking forward to Parker Brother’s release of “Idiocracy, the board game your whole family will soon be playing.”