Social Media Account Disable
There are multiple platforms available on social media which are used by billions of users some are adopted by government agencies and officials at different levels to communicate with their constituents and create announcements regarding health finance campaigns and other important information in this way they can easily engage the public by arranging some debates as well.
This is a positive step to overcome the barrier between the public and the controlling body facilitating easy communication back and forth.
Meanwhile, government agencies and officials of the platform have the authority to block some members of the public who create violence on the platform or break the rules and regulations of the respected platform such as by commenting and replying.
We saw the rapidly growing efforts by the agencies themselves as well as officials to cut the speech with which they disagree and exclude the content.
When a government agency or officials block someone according to their viewpoint they commit two distinct. Firstly, it violates the right of access the right to receive information from the regulating body that is generally available to the public.
Secondly, the individual violates the right to speak in a public forum that has generally been open for public communication.
If your account is blocked it’s a collective effort to keep the community safe because every platform is strict and very conscious of the content the individual is going to share.
Users must have to understand that this respective action is frustrating and confusing as well but it’s the duty of the authority to make certain actions on the platform to avoid the violation of rules and regulations.
Social media irrespective of any specific application it’s a platform where you can express yourself in whatever manner you want but you have to follow certain guidelines so if you break the guidelines you will be kicked out of the platform by the administration or even permanently banned it depends on the act the individual had done.
These guidelines seem to be strict but these are really important to make the usage of applications safe for the community also every application has its own guidelines different from other applications. Sometimes you don’t even realize that you are breaking the rules and crossing the premises of the application by doing this activity.
Sometimes people nominate the account by labeling and designating an account as a “campaign account” to make announcements about the candidate holding public office, to post the update on candidate’s office work, to update on the legislation upon which the candidate is working, or too aware the public about the action taken by the candidate as a public official then that account will be qualifying as a government-run public forum.
Account Suspended:
The administration has the authority to suspend the account if they found a violation of policies and the terms and conditions. Sometimes accounts are suspended without prior warning to the individual because some acts are unlawful and cause significant harm to other users or create hurdles in the digital advertising ecosystem.
Horrific violations reflect the overall business of the advertiser or notify that this one violation is so severe that we can not risk our future exposures to our users. Illegal activities created by the companies or the users will automatically reflect the decline in the number of users of the specific app and in return the rating of the app affected badly so prior actions are necessary.
And in some cases, a prior warning is sent to the users before suspending the account. This notification is shown 7 days before the suspension of the account.
“For repeat violation of the policy, we issue strikes to your Google account ads and penalties progressively increase with each subsequent strike leading up to account suspension and you will receive a maximum of three strikes per policy on your Google ads account”
Remarketing Disable
There are many remarketing lists that don’t follow the personalized advertising policy and these lists may be disabled and no longer be used with any ad campaigns fresh users won’t be added to the disabled lists the restrictions may apply on both individual webpage or the entire website.
Sometimes the platform gives the option that they will review the business for compliance with the customer match policy and if the administration contacts you for a request related to compliance then the user is required to respond in a timely manner and needed to take corrective actions to comply with our policies.
Legal Blocking Orders
The information technology act 2000, allows the government to issue a notice to all network providers to block the access of the public to any content when it is satisfied with the necessity of order.
The information technology act 2009, describes the process and the power of the central government to direct social media to block certain content. Union of India and others as well further add that lack of transparency by mandating that strict confidentiality should be maintained regarding all the requests and complaints received and actions must be taken for the users.
When the application is created then the privacy policy and community guidelines of the respective social media app list down the instances where they will disable the access of the user to the account or the administration directly remove the content from the profile without getting permission and even without informing the owner of the account.
Furthermore, in each instance, the user has the opportunity to appeal against the decision, and upon the resolution of the issue the social media platform will be responsible to restore the account and all the contents of the account as well as their privacies.
Certain Rules And Regulations
There are many categories of content that you can easily post on social media but some types of content are strictly prohibited on social media and violating the rules will be faced by a permanent ban from the app. Here are some of the contents that are banned from social media.
Sexual Content:
Certain applications work on age groups mostly platforms are available only for those above 13 years of age so inappropriate sexual content on social media results in the ban of the account or the page. The main intent is to keep appropriate content to keep a diverse audience on social media which is useful and creative as well.
Some posts are like nude photos for children and nudity in general posts no matter what the intent creates blocking of the user. Though it was of some other intent like creative purpose or artistic nudity is never allowed on any social media app.
Violent Content:
It’s never okay to encourage violence on any social media platform some violent content only allow in case of challenges and raising awareness campaigns. Instagram Facebook Snapchat strives to give a diverse community and content. Because of this fact, you will be kicked out of the app for making serious threats of harm to public safety.
Sometimes the inbuilt feature of the app gives a notification while uploading any post that user must be thoughtful before posting newsworthy events. But Content like awareness campaigns and education health may not be the reason to get banned from social media but you can use captions warnings to your photos.
Copyright Content:
The blocked content could be due to copyright content. Reposting and copying the content is the most common and popular strategy to upgrade your feed and generate good content. You can avoid the blocked action by giving credit to posts where it is required to avoid further conflict among the users.
If you see that your content has been copied without your permission and tagging, then it’s better to avoid having your Instagram account blocked by filing the report and harassing the user.
User Complaint:
If a large number of users report your profile or photos this can alert the Instagram authority to verify the account and block or disable the account before creating more violence. There are multiple reasons why users report the profile the two main options are “it’s spam” or “it’s inappropriate”
If you choose “its spam” so this will automatically block the reported account so you will not be able to see each other’s content. Spam is considered if the user posts excessively and due to similar behavior that is not authentic.
If you click on “inappropriate” then you will be given another page to fill in the details about the account and the content so then the action will be depending directly on your answers.
What I Can Do If My Account Is Blocked
Facebook:
Something you have posted may be considered a breach according to Facebook terms and policy and community standards.
as per section 69A of the Act, the government issued orders to block the users from taking down the content for granted.
So now I have to follow certain steps to unblock the account like the following:
Facebook always gives the direct opportunity to its users to get in touch with your grievance redressal team to report or resolve the issue through the help center. And Facebook reserves some of the information of users in their policies for the purpose of compliance with the request and orders from law enforcement bodies.
Instagram:
The things you have posted in your profile may be not the premises of Instagram and the parent company Facebook guideline standard.
Or the controlling body may give the orders to ban the specific account for crossing the boundaries of acceptable material on the app.
Highlighted Mutual Policies
You must list your authentic and real name on your account to protect it from kicking out of the app.
Personal accounts must represent individual people only. It’s against the rule that if you have a personal account and represent anything other than yourself.
Mimic anyone or anything is not allowed on any social media application.
Maintaining multiple accounts at one time by a single user is against the rules and regulations.
Accounts having a fake identity and for the purpose of spamming or harassing other are strictly prohibited on social media.