Facebook had blocked and has now unblocked the Facebook page Indian Atheists the page wrote in a post on its website. Although the page is up again, it is not clear why Facebook had blocked the page in the first place. The group told Medianama that it was not notified as to why the block happened, neither why Facebook unblocked it either. Indian Atheists Debate Corner group was blocked too An admin of the Indian Atheists page told us that its Facebook group “Indian Atheists debate corner” had also been restricted by Facebook around the same time as the Indian Atheists page and was resurrected with the page. The group reached out to Facebook (page messages and report options) and are yet to receive a response. No content was removed Apparently, the group’s users stated that they were unable to share images, videos or tag the page in their status updates towards the end of last week. Users got this message from Facebook, “The content you're trying to share includes a link that our security systems detected to be unsafe.” The group said that Facebook had not removed any specific posts or flagged any content as objectionable, but the entire page had been flagged as “unsafe”. Sticking to FB guidelines The admin told us that the page had not been blocked in the last two years and that they’d taken steps to ensure adherence to Facebook’s guidelines. The page regularly publishes articles from the media about religion, homeopathy, alternative medicines and…
