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'It's frustrating': Municipal links removed from B.C. community Facebook pages (bc.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/canada
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“Everything my staff has put up has disappeared. Meetings, public hearings, bylaws, notices about water shut offs or road closures, anything we would post back to our main website has been removed.”

Coyne said the reason the posts were removed, according to Facebook, was because they went “against our Community Standards on cybersecurity.”

“It’s a struggle especially during the fire season here,” said Coyne. “It just makes it really, really frustrating because how do you post a PDF that says where the evacuations are, this is the map, this is the information you need to know, when those pieces of information keep disappearing from the social media channels that we use?”

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[–] Woofcat 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like the town needs to run a better website and not depend on Facebook for broadcasting news..

[–] anonymoose 2 points 2 years ago

I really hope more government agencies start self-hosting fediverse I stances I stead of depending on commercial companies.

With enough different institutions hopping on, the fediverse as a whole will also mature and evolve much faster.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

One more reason not to rely on corporate-owned social media platforms.

[–] outbound 14 points 2 years ago

Sounds like people are reporting some of the posts as SPAM/PHISHING... and that there have been enough reports to take down all posts containing links to the municipality.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's amazing how Facebook managed to be the AOL that AOL never quite got too.

Governments are slow to respond, but it's hard to envision a future where they don't all migrate to running their own Fediverse servers. It's easy, especially if all you want to do is run a locked-down one and post info for dissemination, and you have total control (which gov'ts love). Easy to use, no platform lock-in, data is portable all over the place. The idea that our social infrastructure has become dependent on lunatic tech billionaires is nuts, and the sooner we can contribute to, but not depend on, those networks the better.

[–] PuddingFeeling907 4 points 2 years ago

Thats pretty gross of facebook to do and here I thought they were just removing news articles links from the website.