Seriously.
OMG, Seriously.
You try to worm your way into all of the facets of our lives and connections, and then decide all willy-fucking-nilly to block and/or ban for the most fucked reasons.
…all while keeping the actual abusive, bigoted, bullshit groups and people (and their socks) up and running.
In my own friends list, I have witnessed such bullshit like:
- Several friends getting bans for sharing various “<Insert name of well known TERF here> is a Fake Goth” memes.
- A black genderqueer friend of mine being harassed by a white drag queen for their views on race (which are frankly, not even that radical), and when they wouldn’t back down from the abuse BAM! Month long ban. Then, when they were back, BAM! Another one.
- Countless reports to Facebook over hateful groups, screenshots full of bigotry and calls to violence ignored as not “violating community standards” while said bigots get to roam free making life miserable for everyone.
- Groups dedicated to social justice, such as Son of Baldwin or Kinfolk Kollective, unpublished (SoB has been returned). This, all while talking that #BlackLiveMatter game out of other side of their mouths.
- Don’t even try to contact the cops for the detailed death/rape threat you’ve received, either, because they’re useless with that, unless it’s a cop getting any sort of criticism or anger. Then they are all over that shit.
Free speech? What’s that? Also, what the fuck ARE your standards, Facebook? Groups dedicated to harassing individuals and groups are okay, but reporting them and getting reported as payback nets you a ban? Really?
Y’all need to do better. You have more than enough money to hire actual humans to be your first of the line checkers of these complaints to see if they are legit. Also, state your fucking standards, clearly. If you’re cool with hate groups making threats, fucking say so. If you’re okay with people and groups exposing such hateful shit being banned, fucking say so. If you’re cool with folks making simple requests like “Hey, that meme is actually kinda bigoted” being mass reported until said person is banned by your shitty algorithms, fucking say so. If you’re cool with cops using Facebook to arrest people for thoughtcrime, fucking say so. Fucking create a better appeal process.
You’re using us for your ad revenue; you could at the fucking least not completely alienate us with this shit.
Don’t fuck with your moneymakers.
(Oh, and any responses that even smells like “then just don’t use Facebook” will be cussed out and the commentor banned. Be helpful, be empathetic, add something to the discussion, or go the fuck away)
We’re not moneymakers to FB. We’re a resource. We’re the raw materials that they sell to other companies for ad revenue. That’s why I only use FB for apps that require it to log in.
That I kinda what I meant when I called us “Moneymakers”. But yes to everything else.
But they put up a giant BlackLivesMatter sign at Facebook HQ, so all must be well, right? π
Yup! No problems there. They have a sign! π
Feminace:
That’s part of what irritates the fuck out of me about my current three day ban. All I did was write “Psst. I heard Cathy Brennan was a Fake Goth.” That’s not harassment. It’s not abusive. It’s not sexist. It’s not misogynistic. And yet it was deemed bad enough by whateverthefuck FB’s standards are to get deleted, and lead to my 1-day banning. Worse, when I got out of the ban yesterday, I made a post stating that I was unbanned and that it had something to do with a post about Cathy Brennan. And *that* post resulted in my current 3-day ban. It makes zero sense.
I poked around and noticed I’m also blocked from sending private messages. When I click the ‘learn more’ link, I get a page that says this:
I’m guessing its part and parcel of being blocked from commenting, but its bizarre bc I don’t send a lot of messages.
I just now tried to make a post and got this message:
Here is FB’s “Community Standards”:
Saying “Psst. I heard Cathy Brennan is a Fake Goth.” strikes me as one of the most innocuous statements to make. It doesn’t even rise to the level of disturbing. And of course, FB has no issue with allowing disturbing comments like rape threats to remain.
More stuff from the “Community Standards”:
That obviously doesn’t apply to my situation.
None of my comments about CB contained anything remotely like a threat-direct or otherwise.
And of course this doesn’t apply to my actions at all.
The following “standard” is about the only one I’ve seen that *might* apply to my comment:
…except they only list ‘nudity’, ‘hate speech’, and ‘graphic content and violence’ under this section. I don’t think my comments about CB constitute any of those.
The only other “standards” are keeping your account and personal information secure and protecting your intellectual property.
So literally, I have no idea what so-called “Community Standard” I violated.
hey, I miss you. π
Aww, thanks.
I think my timeout is over sometime tomorrow night.