🚨 Important Update:

This petition will soon close on Change.org as we transition fully to our official platform.

👉 www.peopleoverplatforms.org/fix-platforms⁠

 

While this petition helped raise global awareness, donations made through Change.org are processed and retained by the platform and have not supported our organization, our advocacy efforts, or the work required to restore wrongfully disabled accounts.

We have secured the full signature record from this petition and will continue building on this movement through our official platform. While full signature counts are not yet displayed on our website, we are actively working to implement this on our platform.

To ensure support directly funds real advocacy, development, and account restoration efforts, we are continuing this movement through our official website.

👉 https://www.peopleoverplatforms.org/fix-platforms⁠

This is where the movement continues and where real action is happening.

 

🌍 About People Over Platforms Worldwide
People Over Platforms Worldwide is a federally incorporated non-profit organization based in Canada, advancing human rights in the digital age.

We work to hold corporations, platforms, and automated systems accountable for decisions that impact real people, especially when those decisions are made without transparency, oversight, or due process.

Our focus is on addressing systemic issues in platform enforcement, corporate decision-making, and institutional power, where individuals are often left without clear explanations, meaningful appeals, or access to support.

As digital systems increasingly control access to communication, livelihood, and identity, we advocate for stronger protections, ethical standards, and enforceable accountability across the systems shaping modern life.

Because people’s rights don’t end where the internet begins.

 

⚠️ Hold Big Tech Accountable for Wrongful Account Disabling

Fix the systems. Restore access. Provide real support.

62,000+ voices and rising
Across the globe, ordinary users are being silenced by broken automated systems.

From Australia to Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, Vietnam and beyond, journalists, creators, educators, parents, non-profits, and everyday users have lost access to their accounts, communities, and data.

Often without warning.
Without explanation.
Without meaningful appeal.

This is not an isolated issue
This is a widespread, systemic failure.

Businesses have been erased.
Livelihoods disrupted.
Years of memories, relationships, and communications lost.

Many affected users are left trapped in automated systems, unable to reach real support, and in some cases facing serious reputational harm due to incorrect or unexplained enforcement actions.

 
Why This Matters
Automated enforcement systems are making life-altering decisions without adequate human oversight or due process.

As a result, people are losing:

• Businesses and income
• Years of personal data, photos, and messages
• Community, identity, and support networks
• Access to communication and expression

This is not just a technical issue.
It is a digital rights issue, a policy failure, and a growing global concern.

 

Our Core Demands

1. Reduce wrongful enforcement and automated errors
2. Provide clear, transparent reasons for actions taken
3. Ensure accessible, human-led appeal processes
4. Restore access to accounts and data where harm occurred
5. Provide real, accessible support for all users
6. Ensure compliance with consumer protection and privacy laws
7. Implement independent oversight and audits

Increase transparency around enforcement systems and decisions
 
💡 What You Can Do Next
Support the movement directly through our platform
Share your experience
Stay updated on advocacy efforts and progress
👉 https://www.peopleoverplatforms.org

 
🚨 Donate Directly to Support Real Change
While petition platforms help raise awareness, they do not provide the infrastructure needed to drive long-term advocacy, policy reform, or user support.

To directly support this work:

👉 https://www.peopleoverplatforms.org/donate

Your support helps build:

• Advocacy initiatives
• Policy development
• User support systems
• Long-term accountability efforts

 
🗣 Share Your Experience
Have you been affected?

Lost access to your account, business, or data?

We want to hear from you.

👉 Submit your story and become part of the growing public record.

 

🧠 The Human Impact
Behind every account is a person.

We’ve heard from thousands experiencing:

• Anxiety
• Loss
• Disruption
• Isolation

This is not about engagement metrics.

It is about access, identity, and connection.

 We are not just users. We are human.

 

📣 Media & Advocacy Highlights

🇦🇺 Australia
ABC News Australia — Meta wrongly accuses user of breaching child sex abuse rules
Sky News Australia — Meta falsely accuses Gold Coast business owner of child exploitation and suspends her accounts after she posted a video of her dogs

🇦🇹 Austria
Mimikama — Account deactivated: Meta blocks users without explanation 

🇧🇪 Belgium
Le Soir – Geeko — Facebook and Instagram users face unjustified bans  (Les utilisateurs de Facebook et Instagram victimes de bannissements injustifiés) 

🇨🇦 Canada
CBC News — A teacher falsely flagged for CSE was reinstated only after CBC intervened; Meta apologized.
CTV News — Users ‘reeling,’ feeling ‘sick’ and ‘frustrated’ after Facebook and Instagram accounts deleted without cause or recourse
Global News — Peterborough woman’s petition challenges Meta of wrongfully disabling accounts

🇳🇿 New Zealand
RNZ (Radio New Zealand) — Kiwis in the dark over Instagram, Facebook account suspensions

🇵🇭 Philippines
Rappler — Meta suspends Facebook groups; users demand better notice & appeal process

🇺🇲 United States
ABC7 Los Angeles — Facebook, Instagram users in U.S. say Meta wrongly suspended accounts
Android Headlines — Meta Verified users abandoned during Instagram & Facebook mass bans
Denver7 (ABC Denver) — Frustrations grow for social media users whose accounts were wrongly banned
Florida Times-Union / Jacksonville.com — Facebook groups deleted, suspended, causing chaos for thousands of users
Forbes — Meta cracks down on AI-generated Facebook spam
FOX5 Vegas — Las Vegas business owner says wrongful social media suspension hurt sales
Mashable — Facebook group mass suspensions spark backlash against Meta
TechIssuesToday — Meta issues statement on CSE ban controversy
TubeFilter — AI “slop” content floods Meta platforms, monetization policies questioned
Vocal Media (Interview) — One-on-one with Brittany Watson of People Over Platforms
WRTV Indianapolis — Columbus teacher wrongfully accused by Meta of child exploitation 

🇬🇧 United Kingdom
BBC News — Spotlight on wrongful bans and digital rights
BBC Radio — What happens when you lose your social media?
Daily Star UK — Meta scrambles to fix technical error after mass bans
Mirror UK — Facebook groups hit with mass suspensions, leaving thousands locked out
The Guardian — Instagram user banned without explanation highlights Meta’s opaque appeals 

and many more.