LOS ANGELES — Free Speech Coalition has launched a reporting tool for adult workers and businesses to log incidents of social media censorship.
The submission form, headed "Submit a Social Media Censorship Report," asks for basic information, such as the account name and platform, the approximate date of the account loss and any reasons given.
Anyone who has lost an account recently is encouraged to report it. Those who have lost accounts in the past can use the tool to document those events, to help FSC identify historical trends in account closures.
"As more people use it, the FSC reporting tool will be able to better track, identify and understand bans, shadow bans, suspensions and other censorship on social media sites," a rep noted.
FSC Executive Director Alison Boden said, "Social media censorship continues to be one of the most significant issues facing adult businesses. But if we’re going to fight it, if we’re going to prevent it, we need better data. Too often, we blame ourselves for bans, when in fact the bans are the result of changes at a platform or a bad actor. The more people learn to report on the tool, the more we can identify events like changes in the terms of service enforcement or coordinated deplatforming campaigns."
The new FSC reporting tool is available here.
