MSN, Community guidelines and standards being inappropriately applied.

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Anonymous
2023-04-07T17:36:27+00:00

I have been experiencing issues with posting comments on MSN for the past few months. My comments are often flagged as not complying with the community guidelines, despite my efforts to carefully craft them to avoid offending or accusing anyone. My intention is to provide supplemental information and alternative perspectives on topics and reports. I have also noticed that many news stories on MSN contain inaccurate and false information, and comments are often disabled for these stories. This creates a biased environment on the MSN website, as it does not allow for alternative information to be presented. I believe my comments do not violate the community standards and I would like to be able to resume posting comments like the one below, as sometimes presenting facts and refuting poor ideas is necessary.

“To explore the topic, I recommend looking into the double slit experiment and Schrodinger’s cat. Rather than simply providing answers, it is important to seek understanding by researching and contemplating the materials. Asking for answers is not affective, especially with complex topics like this, as human beings tend to have biases that hinder their ability to seek the reality of the situation due to cognitive dissidence. All I've given you some clues on what to research and I wish you the best of luck in your pursuit of understanding.”

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-05-24T03:02:56+00:00

    I agree completely. There is no rhyme nor reason for the flagging and no one will explain why a statement is "profanity" (see my comment above about the word "sigh") or hate speech. It is driving me away from MSN.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-24T03:00:39+00:00

    In actual fact I have reported dozens of abuses of the "guidelines" asking why, for example, the word "sigh" was flagged as profanity (I was able to post the exact same comment without that word.

    I give my email address. Absolutely no response. As far as I can tell the reports are round-filed.

    I just had one where the article was ABOUT LGBTQ issues (Apple's new rainbow thing). And when I tried to use LGBTQ in a perfectly innocuous sentence, it was flagged as "hate speech." The innocuous comment was allowed when I called the LGBTQ community as "the community Apple is appealing to."

    There are multiple other examples. I have had the question "why do you think that" flagged as hate speech. Other people regularly call me stupid, but that is apparently just fine. (I have reported those).

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-18T23:28:14+00:00

    You can call it whatever you want, they are Microsoft's (not a government) forums and they can make the rules.

    I'm sure there are many places where like minded people would be happy to have you participate in their community.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-18T14:25:49+00:00

    Not a problem. I've switched back to google chrome. I like Edge until they went completely insane with these so called, "community standards". I have noticed that progressive expressions always seem to meet community standards, but conservative expressions never do. "Community standards" is codeword for "political censorship".

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-05-16T20:11:42+00:00

    Breaking News is an Android app, however be forewarned, that they allow all forms of vulgar responses and personal attacks with extremely limited oversight. That is unless a person posts using biblical quotes in support of their position. Those responses are not permitted or are heavily regulated on their site.

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