One of the problems associated with being thrown into Facebook jail is
ignorance of the alleged offense.
The announcement states that your post has violated Facebook's "Community
Standards," a dense, 27-page litany of offenses that will get
you kicked off the platform.
I found the section which I believe addresses my post:
"We care deeply about the safety of the people who use our apps. We
regularly consult with experts in suicide and self-injury to help inform
our policies and enforcement, and work with organizations around the
world to provide assistance to people in distress.
"While we do not allow people to intentionally or unintentionally
celebrate or promote suicide or self-injury, we do allow people to
discuss these topics because we want Facebook to be a space where people
can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and
seek support from one another."
"We define self-injury as the intentional and direct injuring of the
body, including self-mutilation and eating disorders. We remove
any content that encourages suicide or self-injury, including fictional
content such as memes or illustrations and any self-injury content which
is graphic, regardless of context."
Here's the offending cartoon:
I maintain this isn't a cartoon about suicide- it's a cartoon addressing
the power of social media to influence otherwise sane people to do
insane things. If anything, it's an anti-suicide cartoon.
I've appealed prior suspensions and won, because it was obvious the
artificially intelligent bot or stressed human outside contractor didn't
grasp the concepts of satire, parody, or irony and made a bad call. Most
of the time Facebook admitted it was in error and unhid the post. But I
don't think it's going to work in this instance, because self-injury is
one of those categories of which Facebook seems to have a zero tolerance
policy. There is no way to contact any human at Facebook to offer a
defense. And a small potatoes page administrator with a mere 10,134
followers really can't create enough media outrage to get Facebook
executives involved.
I suspect Facebook adopted this policy to aggregate a number it can use
in its "we're doing our best, but we can't catch everything" defense.
They can point to their mountain of context-free suspensions and say,
"Look, we suspended n accounts in the last month for violating our
policy against self-injury."
Supplementary viewing/reading:
25+
best memes about jumping off a cliff
Little
evidence supports the claimed effectiveness of zero-tolerance policies.
"The whole principle is wrong (censorship); it's like demanding that
grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak."
-Robert
A. Heinlein
"The written word will soon disappear and we'll no longer be able to
read good prose like we used to could. This prospect does not gentle my
thoughts or tranquil me toward the future."
-James
Thurber
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"The first way to answer the questions in the song ('Blowin' in the
Wind') is by asking them. But lots of people first have to find the
wind."
-Bob
Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman. He's 80 today.)
Actor Gary
Burghoff is 78 today. The video above is the 1984 pilot episode of a
M*A*S*H spinoff that wasn't picked up.
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The first text message: On this day in 1844, Samuel
Morse sent the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical
quotation, Numbers 23:23) from a committee room in the United States
Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to
inaugurate a commercial telegraph
line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
On this day in 1940, Igor
Sikorsky performed the first successful single-rotor helicopter
flight.
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NOT REAL NEWS: a
look at what didn't happen last week.
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Pentagon's
UFO footage- and Obama's curiosity- ratchet up expectations for a big
reveal. When Congress passed the $2.3 trillion omnibus
appropriations bill in December, it included a requirement that the
Pentagon and a number of intelligence agencies prepare a report laying
out what they know about UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena), which is
the new military-speak for UFOs. The report is expected to be delivered
as early as June 1, and at least part of it will be made available to
the public.
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Good news for a Monday morning: "...greater
coffee consumption is associated with a decreased risk of all-cause
mortality."
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Liz
Cheney's GOP primary challenger admits to impregnating 14-year-old when
he was 18. Liz Cheney's GOP primary challenger admits to
impregnating 14-year-old when he was 18. The Facebook video he released,
called "Senator Bouchard takes on the fake news media," claimed "I was
young" and "you've heard those stories before. She was a little younger
than me, so it's like the Romeo and Juliet story," he said, neglecting
several glaring differences like the Shakespearean characters were
fictional and neither was running for Congress in the so-called "family
values" party.
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Can
the news be fixed? The fix is already in. Oh, you mean like repaired.
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The
Great Amazon Purge... "About three weeks ago, several major Amazon
brands were suddenly kicked out. Most people were unaware of the names
of more than 12 disappearing Chinese companies, such as Mpow and Aukey.
However, these two sell a number of electronic devices, such as phone
chargers and external batteries for smartphones. If you click "Buy" on
Amazon's first phone charger or wireless headphones, it could be from
one of the sellers currently suspended."
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Alabama
will now allow yoga in its public schools (but students can't say
'namaste'). But on the other hand, Alabama
becomes latest state to legalize medical marijuana.
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Life as we know it:
Solar
storms are back, threatening life as we know it on Earth.
A
massive heat dome is about to make the Southeast sweat.
"Temperatures starting on Monday will run between 10-15 degrees above
normal, and border on record maximum temperatures, both for daily highs
and lows."
Spermageddon:
Could men be infertile by 2045? One word: parthenogenesis.
New
coronavirus discovered- and dogs are spreading it. It could be the
eighth coronavirus known to cause illnesses in humans.
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