Facebook Marketplace censors me for enabling P2P parallel economies

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Oct 29 16:53

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Facebook censored my listing because I offer XMR as a payment option.

I buy & sell on xmrbazaar, but I also buy & sell a lot of junk on Facebook marketplace in my local area.

In an effort to increase XMR adoption and earn XMR/Crypto, I always put a note in the description of my listing that I accept XMR and I even offer a discount to people willing to pay for items with crypto.

Most are not crypto people and don't even know how to buy it, so I offer one piece of advice as a long shot to see if someone will bite:

"Discount for Monero/Bitcoin payers. If you don't have any crypto, you can use cash at a Bitcoin ATM and I will eat all the fees for you!"

Unfortunately anything crypto related usually comes off as a scam, especially regarding Bitcoin ATMs considering their prevalence in crytpo scams to trick grandma out of her money.

Only once have I ever gotten someone to pay me in crypto. Some guy bought using Eth. Not XMR, but still cool nonetheless.

Today I got a message that one of my listings had been moderated by Facebook. The rule they said I broke was:

"Documents, Currency, and Financial Instruments
Commerce content may not promote the buying, selling, or trading of real or fake documents, currency, financial instruments or virtual currency."

https://www.facebook.com/policies_center/commerce/documents_currency_and_financial_instruments

Apparently Facebook's interpretation of buying & selling "virtual currency" includes even just accepting it as a payment method.

The ironic part is that I consider Monero the only REAL currency. If anything, USD is the "virtual" currency. Fiat money, numbers on a screen, backed by nothing but air.

I submitted an appeal to Facebook, we'll see what they say.

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Oct 30 23:59

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Any updates on what they said?
I haven't been on that site for years

Try including a picture with that discount info instead of writing it on the description, maybe that would help AI not detect it easly

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Nov 13 15:59

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Reply to post #511

Nope, they haven't replied to me about my appeal. I expect that they probably never will. As MoneroMaster pointed out, support is non-existent.

Yes, I will probably put the notice about XMR in an image to avoid censorship in the future. Good idea.

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You will find that this was done by some AI bot and Meta's customer service is non-existent.

Meta operates like the future we are all being plunged into, AI bots crawling what we do, banning us from services without just cause and then being left with no way to appeal.

If people are picking up the things you sell you can always mention XMR when you are face-to-face.

If you DM me I'll even send you some XMR on boarding cards: https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/AgAp

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If only 99% of the human population wasn't normies doing everything through Facebook marketplace, we'd never have to touch it again. Alas.

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Facebook Marketplace censors me for enabling P2P parallel economies