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What makes you think annoyingnoob didn't read the article? The MP in the article, Mark Strahl, is quoted referring to this as "a glaring example of censorship", and annoyingnoob appears to be saying that "censorship" is not the right framework in which to criticize Facebook's actions.

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If it's a mistake that Facebook reversed, it's not censorship.

One does not exclude the other. FB tried to censor him, but turned out it wasn't what they wanted to censor, so they removed the censorship. That happened because their censorship mechanisms are highly automated and very badly trained, so they have a huge amount of false positives.

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