{"id":31072,"date":"2020-11-02T09:54:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T07:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31072"},"modified":"2025-08-28T01:55:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:55:29","slug":"facebook-users-report-blocking-of-bitcoin-related-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/facebook-users-report-blocking-of-bitcoin-related-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook users report blocking of bitcoin-related content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Facebook users reported blocking of bitcoin-related information. When entering the hashtag #bitcoin, a message appeared stating that the content was &#8220;temporarily hidden&#8221; for safety reasons.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 Bitcoin censored on Facebook!<\/p>\n<p>I was searching for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> content on Facebook and apparently that hashtag is under a &#8216;temporary&#8217; ban.<\/p>\n<p>This is outrageous \ud83d\ude21 Please retweet! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w4MY5GD5Y1\">pic.twitter.com\/w4MY5GD5Y1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Moon \ud83c\udf19 (@TheMoonCarl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMoonCarl\/status\/1322501356834508801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Reddit threads claim that Facebook limited the display of information for the hashtag allegedly due to violations of community policy. But not everyone receives such notices: several users, regardless of location, did not notice any problems with the results.<\/p>\n<p>In July, cryptocurrency firms announced plans to file a class-action lawsuit against Google, Facebook and Twitter, citing the harm caused by bans on digital-currency advertising on these platforms.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about how social networks may tilt toward censorship in the Facebook case on ForkLog.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"i09tj4vbYQ\">\n<p>Facebook under the crosshairs: how centralized social networks enforce censorship<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cFacebook under the crosshairs: how centralized social networks enforce censorship\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/exclusive\/facebook-pod-pritselom-kak-tsentralizovannye-sotsseti-prinuzhdayut-k-tsenzure\/embed#?secret=nK4uMWC7lc#?secret=i09tj4vbYQ\" data-secret=\"i09tj4vbYQ\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog.news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Facebook users reported blocking of bitcoin-related information. When entering the hashtag #bitcoin, a message appeared stating that the content was &#8216;temporarily hidden&#8217; for safety reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39,611,465],"class_list":["post-31072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-censorship","tag-facebook","tag-social-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31074,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31072\/revisions\/31074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}