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我不常使用Facebook Messenger，但最近为了重新联系一位青少年时期的朋友而用了它。今天我醒来时收到了以下消息：“您在接下来的3天内无法发送消息。您在聊天中发送的内容违反了我们的社区标准。”消息后面还附有一个链接到这些标准的按钮。是的，我的所有聊天记录都被锁定了。所以我被“暂时禁言”了。一家美国公司决定我在接下来的3天内不能与我的朋友交流（这是我们唯一的沟通方式，事后看来真是个错误）。在你问之前：我说了什么？大部分对话都是非常平常的。但在某个时刻，我被问到在政治生涯中最难忘的事情。我提到了一条关于儿童性交易网络的安静传闻（看，我在自我审查！我是个好公民！）——这个传闻是在一个当地政治精英常去的酒吧里。那是昨晚。而且，我的朋友并没有举报我。人们认为私人聊天是，嗯，私密的。他们也认为Facebook Messenger是加密的。这两者都不是真的。不过，当我告诉人们这件事时，最常见的反应不是惊讶或愤怒，而是一种疲惫的接受——仿佛问题不在于审查，而在于我没有遵守规则。十年前，我是政治活跃青年的一部分，曾为言论自由、网络中立、反对审查和企业权力的侵占而奋斗，认为互联网是美好的力量。但看来我们失败了。那些高薪的IT工作实在太诱人，无法拒绝。我想我们现在还有Signal。暂时如此。

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I don’t use Facebook Messenger much, but I did recently to reconnect with a friend from my teenage years.Today I woke up to the following message: “You can’t send messages for 3 days. Something you sent in a chat went against our Community Standards.” This was followed by a button linking to those standards. And yes, all my chats are locked.So I’ve been put in “time out.” An American corporation has decided I’m not allowed to speak to my friend for 3 days (our only way to communicate—a mistake in hindsight).And before you ask: what did I say? Most of the conversation was entirely banal. But at one point I was asked about the most memorable things from my time in politics. Among other things, I mentioned a quiet rumor about a ch#ild pros#####on ring (see, I’m self-censoring! I’m a good and obedient citizen!) in a bar frequented by the local political elite. That was last night. And no, my friend did not report me.People believe private chats to be, well, private. They also believe that Facebook Messenger is encrypted. Neither is true.Except that when I tell people about this, the most common response is not surprise or anger, but a kind of weary acceptance - as if the problem isn’t the censorship, but my failure to follow the rules.I was part of the politically active youth a decade ago, fighting for free speech, net neutrality, against censorship, and against corporate power taking over and corrupting what we saw as a beautiful force for good: the internet. It seems we failed. The well-paid IT jobs turned out to be too sweet to pass up.I guess we still have Signal. For now.

聊天控制功能已经在Facebook Messenger上上线。