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I have just learned that Facebook is threatening to nuke my author page because I “violated community standards” in using that photo of August Landmesser to talk about resistance to the Holocaust & the importance of showing up for racial justice now.
1/x thread.
1/x thread.
I am so angry. It is this thread, basically, cleaned up a little. The offending photo is in there somewhere.
Presumably now, many years too late, they’re on a crusade to Clean Up Their Content (tm) but they couldn’t be bothered to READ for CONTEXT.
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Presumably now, many years too late, they’re on a crusade to Clean Up Their Content (tm) but they couldn’t be bothered to READ for CONTEXT.
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I don’t know if someone hateful reported the post or if their bots just got the photo caught in its net but whatever they’re doing is not working.
White supremacists are still organizing on there.
I’m pretty confident disinformation is circulating well too, somehow.
White supremacists are still organizing on there.
I’m pretty confident disinformation is circulating well too, somehow.
But ok, let’s give them the benefit of the doubt—let’s say that today, September 5th, 2020, A Good Many Years Too Late, they finally clean up their act. All the people fomenting white nationalist violence are zapped, all the disinfo. Ok, for that I’d pay the price tbh.
But it reminds me that the dudes who own this companies can cut us off mid-conversation, which I hate.
This “privately owned public space” thing kinda sucks.
Ok. So I don’t currently have a newsletter. I’m not planning to recusitate it anytime soon, tbh. But sign up anyway, in case this all goes haywire and you might ever want to see my stuff in a different form. A backup plan, if you will:
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And if you work at Facebook or know someone who does, please ask them to review their new procedures, because this ain’t it.
Ok, tone on all of this is more indignant than I meant. Injustice makes me angry. Continued aiding & abetting of white nationalist violence makes me angry. Their not responding appropriately to real & valid reports of—well, lots of horrible things mentioned in this thread.
My personal plight, such as it is, is annoying af. The part that DOES make me angry in all of this is that they decided a post imploring people to get on board w/fighting racism violates their TOS.
And that so much of our public speech is filtered through these apps.
And that so much of our public speech is filtered through these apps.
