So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
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@Remittancegirl People are completely captured by Meta (& TikTok & X). You’ll never convince them to leave. (Preaching to the choir, I know.)
@tantramar utterly useless response
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@tantramar utterly useless response
@suddjian Hey, thanks for playing! Go fuck yourself!
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Right, cstross. I don't need you to explain social media to me.
And yep, it's a thing.
Via Public Citizen
"Today, during the peak of our national day of action, the No Kings Coalition Instagram account was taken down and is no longer accessible.This is a clear attempt to silence the No Kings Coalition & prevent future communications.
Don't let them silence No Kings. Spread the word."
Have they made a website yet? @QueenOfTheCroneAge @cstross @Remittancegirl
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl Also scheduling protests with a fixed start and end date is kind of defeating the point.
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@QueenOfTheCroneAge @Remittancegirl IG is owned by Meta, aka Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook. They're ratfucking Lula's election campaign on behalf of Bolsonaro, so dabbling in politics on the side of the Fash is absolutely typical. Rancid goddamn nazi-snogging billionaires.
@cstross @QueenOfTheCroneAge @Remittancegirl Europe should ban all things Meta. While they can.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl should be basic OPSEC for any political actiongroup.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl the ruling class WANTS you to protest peacefully as they sleep peacefully on Saturdays. Change that. Raise some hell during busy weekday hours that stop the flow of business.
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@cstross @QueenOfTheCroneAge @Remittancegirl Europe should ban all things Meta. While they can.
@JoelBarr Brazil should as well (in addition to Twitter). Meta has been interfering with their election: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/meta-employees-said-lulas-accounts-were-hindered-during-brazil-election-folha-2026-10-16/
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Have they made a website yet? @QueenOfTheCroneAge @cstross @Remittancegirl
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@Remittancegirl There’s a parallel here with Ukraine being dependent on US/Musk platforms. We need to find all the ways the enemy is dependent on us and work that.
@karmic_resonance @Remittancegirl could we withdraw their use of the English language?
No, that wouldn’t work. What they speak now is scarcely English.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl They plan their work on their own website. They have social network outlets, IG Threads, FB BlueSky and TIkTok, they are all active, not suspended. As a hater of IG (and all Meta products, I refuse to use then) because it is a gatekeeping walled garden, I generally agree, but those social sites aren't their primary means of organizing, they have people who still use the apps and can still get the word out. There is value in that. (They aren't on x-twitter, blessedly)
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@cstross @QueenOfTheCroneAge @Remittancegirl Europe should ban all things Meta. While they can.
@JoelBarr @cstross @QueenOfTheCroneAge @Remittancegirl That will definitely help with organizing protests in *checks notes* America.
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@JoelBarr Brazil should as well (in addition to Twitter). Meta has been interfering with their election: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/meta-employees-said-lulas-accounts-were-hindered-during-brazil-election-folha-2026-10-16/
@stellarsarah @JoelBarr @cstross @Remittancegirl
Yep. Throttling and outright blocking.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl It's so true. Seems like the Fediverse would be perfect for such things, and yet people stay addicted to the surveillance capitalism platforms SMH.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl I can't understand, given how openly censorious they've been the last two years, that anyone was still using anything from big 7 was cool with getting censored just because. I get it, these channels are huge markets - they're also all completely compromised by our literal enemies.
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J jwcph@helvede.net shared this topic
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
I had my account suspended by blue sky today and reddit a week ago. Nothing I post should go against the TOS on either site. I do occasionally comment on politics (especially on blue sky) but I'm careful to keep things civil. Reddit I mainly use for a niche gaming sub. I don't mean to sound tin foil hat,but it seems very suspicious that two separate social media accounts of mine were suspended. Very weird. I deleted IG and X ages ago.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
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@cstross @QueenOfTheCroneAge @Remittancegirl Europe should ban all things Meta. While they can.
@JoelBarr @cstross @QueenOfTheCroneAge @Remittancegirl the fact that X is still operating after the Grok thing tells you they can't (or won't)
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl this just makes me more convinced of the "we aren't allowed to build our own things, because building is bad" leftist brainworms
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl In the 80s this would have become a SCOTUS case, probably a milestone 1st Amendment issue, due to likely WH involvement.
It is political censorship.
