With the departure of Pavel Durov from the company, the VKontakte social network began a systematic struggle for censorship on the Internet. Concern for the mental health of users makes the administration of the site go to ever-increasing restrictions. They are often implemented so ineptly that any user can get around them.
Reason for occurrence
This notification appears for two reasons: either the administrator does not quite understand how to properly moderate the community, or the content is really illegal.
Let's consider these two reasons in more detail. What could be illegal content? This category includes:
- Publications promoting the romance of the underworld or telling how to commit crimes.
- Content featuring pornographic or erotic content. Here the rule has a peculiar exception. Erotica is not a taboo subject for community building. The main thing is that people who have not reached the age of 18 do not participate in the materials.
- Groups dedicated to bullying or insulting individuals. Such publics were popular several years ago. In order for the content to become inadmissible, it’s enough for a couple of insulted persons to complain to the support service, after which the group will probably be blocked.
- Illegal publications that are openly fraudulent.
- Content calling for drug use, promoting substance abuse, or promoting the spread of narcotic and other psychotropic substances.
- Posts promoting extremism. What is this, no one can clearly answer today and will not be able in the future, but this is the most common reason for the message “probably the community contains materials that are inadmissible in VK.
- Publications that incite hatred of certain social groups or categories of people. Anything can fall into this category - from an aggressive political journal to a social community based on a unifying factor of hatred towards anyone.
Much more can fall under the concept of illegal content, but the group will then be blocked from the outside, and the court’s decision or the decision of the prosecutor’s office will be indicated as the reason.
There is also an age mark. Often, in order to add status to his community, his leadership puts the mark “18+”. In this case, the message “probably the community contains inappropriate content” will appear in the official VK application, and the content will be inaccessible to minors.
This is a kind of bug that can be fixed and quite simple. We will talk more about this later.
How to get around
There are several options here. The message “probably the community contains invalid content” on VK can be bypassed in several ways:
- If you are an administrator, then simply refuse age marking. Often it is completely unnecessary.
- If you are a user, then the message "probably the community contains inappropriate content" can be bypassed using the official application, but by going through the browser.
- A similar option is to access the social network from a computer. As a rule, this will be enough.
- If you’re uncomfortable sitting in the browser, and you basically want to use applications, then the message “probably the community contains inappropriate materials” can be bypassed by switching to unofficial applications. They are available on both the AppStore and the Google Market. However, in this case, it is worth remembering that an unofficial application does not guarantee data security.
- The final way to get around the “probably community contains inappropriate content” notification is to violate user policies. The fact is that the social network prohibits indicating false information in the profile. If you are ready to go for such a small deception, then you can simply change your age to 18+.
If it didn’t work out
If all methods have been tried, you will have to come to terms with the idea that public content is prohibited. It remains only to give time to community administrators to solve problems with social network support.
The situation is sadder when the content is blocked by decision of the court or law enforcement agencies. It also happens that the state in the person of Roskomnadzor responds to complaints from citizens and requires the owners of the site to stop illegal actions in the information space. If this happens, then, most likely, forever. Of course, there are hundreds of ways to get around this ban, but this is a topic for a separate article.
Thus, we see that the last bastion of free information space surrenders under the pressure of a ruthless system, is this good or bad? Find out over time. In any case, each moderator should pay special attention to the content that he creates in order to provide users with extremely useful and interesting information that will not harm and force the management of the social network to take decisive measures to block based on the age of the users.