🕓 Last Updated: January 4, 2024, 12:03 pm (PH time)
For whatever reasons, Facebook suspends user accounts for various reasons. This is one thing that is certain why Facebook suspended a user account.
And this is hilarious as hell although Facebook provides suggestions for suspended accounts of users for them to appeal the suspension. However, it could be as good as deleted for good since the decision still would be in the limbo of Facebook’s willingness to respond to appeals, apparently. At least, speaking on behalf of my suspended Facebook account.
As for my Facebook account Regel Javines with a whooping 800 followers and more (haha), Facebook suspended it on Nov. 8, 2023, because of a “linked Instagram (IG) account” that, accordingly, “doesn’t follow” Facebook community rules. I already made appeals twice as those linked IG accounts were not 101% mine. Until now, I didn’t receive anything yet from Facebook as of this writing. So, I decided to have another Facebook account bearing the same name.
Meanwhile, on Jan. 2, 2024, the Facebook of Sass Rogando Sasot, including her Facebook page For The Motherland blah, blah, was suspended. However, Facebook provides Sasot a definite timeframe to appeal before its deletion. In my case, Facebook didn’t bother anything at all.
(UPDATE: The Facebook page of Sasot, The Motherland blah, blah has already been restored as of this writing.)
In 2022, Facebook suspended the then Marcos Jr. Chief of Staff Atty. Vic Rodriguez. “FB/Meta suspended my account because I am for Bongbong Marcos. This is censorship of the highest degree and interference on a sovereign act,” wrote Atty. Rodriguez posted by the Philippine Star on its Facebook page.
There are maybe even more incidents that Facebook suspends user accounts—big and small, famous and notorious—for various reasons.
Big Tech censorship knows no bounds. Their game, their rules. And for that to be in control, end-users must take control by leaving Big Tech for good. But, who would dare? RQJ
Regel Javines is the founder/editor-publisher of The Philippine Pundit. Born in Leyte and raised by struggle, he writes truth from the margins. His work explores the intersections of politics, spirituality, and life’s deeper questions. Blogging since 2011, Regel has contributed incisive political analysis to global citizen journalism platforms, giving voice to stories often left unheard. Currently, he works as a consultant for the Congressional Assistance, Response, and Education (CARE) Program of the House of Representatives of the Philippines.