Spent $60 on a VPN after my main account got locked for posting a work document

I uploaded a screenshot of a public city council meeting agenda to a local news group. The platform flagged it as 'sensitive personal data' and locked my account for a week. I paid for a VPN service to route my traffic and made a new account to appeal the decision, which worked after three days. Has anyone found a better way to challenge these automated takedowns without having to hide your location?

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the_julia8d ago

A city council meeting agenda is public record by law, that's the whole point of open meetings. The fact a platform's bot flagged that as private data is honestly scary. You had to spend sixty dollars just to get a real person to look at a public document. That system is so broken it makes me want to scream.

the_riley8d ago

Yeah, it's wild how these automated systems get it so wrong... I once had a post taken down for sharing a link to my own town's public budget page. The appeal process took weeks, and it just shouldn't be that hard for stuff we have a right to see.