I am ROYALLY PISSED at Facebook this morning!

[lastlib]

A former co-worker, who happens to be from Ukraine, posted a photo about the latest Russian missile strike in Odesa which killed a mother and her three-month-old baby. I replied to the post that it made me want to burn the Kremlin to the ground, with Vlad P. in it. Facebook REMOVED my post, telling me that I was "inciting violence." - - - - - -

Who the hell WOULDN'T be "inciting violence" against Vlad after that act?? I filed my appeal with them, telling them at the end that FB might want to avoid acting as a Putin tool, that Vlad was smiling at their decision to remove my post.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Five years ago I posted a photo of the immigrant boy who died on the beach...

and FB 'covered' it. FIVE YEARS AGO.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

2. Facebook is hopeless.

I've complained so many times about vicious, nasty posts, and Facebook just lets them stay up. They clearly have multiple standards.

[Ocelot II]

3. Forget about Facebook. It's a hopeless sewer of stuff that shouldn't be there

while deleting harmless things because its algorithms are stupid.

[Celerity]

4. Fuck Facebook and the Zuck it rode in on.

[secondwind]

5. Sadly, these posts become victim to an algorithm or whatever,

I don’t think humans are involved. Just my two cents.

[brooklynite]

6. Nope, I'm going with Facebook on this point...

Anger not withstanding, advocating violence (even as a rant) isn't acceptable, and angry rants on Facebook are precisely the sort of thing people have complained about in the past. "Trump/Putin does it" isn't acceptable as an argument (and neither of them have Facebook accounts where they're doing it).

[lastlib]

7. Would you have complained about someone in 1944....

wanting to burn Berchtesgaden with Adolf Hitler in it?

(I'll just leave it at that)

[brooklynite]

8. We were at war with Germany.

American citizens were being killed by Germany.

[stopdiggin]

12. yes. particularly if they were painting it on the side of a school building

or my local church.

The local beer hall might have presented another case - but then that would have kind of depended on what the owner felt like allowing. Right?

[stopdiggin]

11. +1. if you're posting incendiary stuff (and this fits the def.)

then you're contributing to the toxic atmosphere. Tone it down.

(To be clear. Not a big fan, and I use it very sparingly. But we blame FB, et.al. for not trying to de-fang and declaw - clean up the mess - then blame the efforts that they do make)

[HipChick]

9. FB is free...

I decline to be emotionally trigged by services I don't pay for..

[LuckyCharms]

15. Just about to post this until I saw your response.

You are exactly correct.

Users are not charged, in fact, the users are their product.

I was on it for awhile. Nothing that Facebook did in particular pissed me off, but the entire dynamic that I personally witnessed (I'm not suggesting that everyone has the same experience as me), was not something I wanted to be a part of.

So I figure there are 3 options when dissatisfied with FB, depending on the reason you are dissatisfied:

1) Stay

2) Leave

3) Rally support to encourage Facebook to change their business model to one in which users pay a substantial fee to be a member, and therefore, have more freedom to control their experience, or decide which posts stay and which posts get deleted.

I chose to leave. Pretty easy choice in my case.

[Zeitghost]

21. I agree with your general sentiment

But FB is not free, you just happen to be the product being sold and not the customer.

[BlueJac]

10. Don't try that on Twitter either!

I had a similar post removed!

[samnsara]

13. same with me.. i had one removed for the same thing but it sure felt good to post it :)

[Takket]

14. now go back on facebook and search for "execute women who have an abortion"

and I'll bet you found thousands of posts with thousands of shares.............

[Cuthbert Allgood]

16. I mean it's an algorithm that's making the decision

so using the phrase "burn x to the ground" probably isn't a great decision.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

18. I had one hidden for saying Robert E. Lee should have been hung as a traitor.

It was reversed within an hour.

My account was temporarily locked. Apparently I have two strikes from a meme I posted twice - the meme with Trump in a sleeper hold saying “who’s sleepy now, b*tch.” Those where zonked 6+ months after they were posted.

[usonian]

17. FB "bans" violence but FB *IS* VIOLENCE

The violence that FB (Meta) does is to truth.
And they get away with it.

I watched the internet grow from the day it changed from a research network to a commercial one.
The ONLY people who could extract a buck were porn sites.
Nobody else could figure a way to make a buck, none of the "geniuses" ... not Larry Page nor Sergey Brin, nor Zuck nor the forgotten internet roadkill. Thank goodness that Wikipedia and the Internet Archive and a few others survive on donations.

MOST TURNED TO ADVERTISING,
and that's the day that quantity trounced quality.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/24/advertising-poison-hooked
Advertising is a poison that demeans even love – and we're hooked on it
• This article is more than 10 years old
George Monbiot

A MUST READ.
World's shortest pull-quote:

Pervasiveness and repetition act like a battering ram against our minds.

Hey, this is violence.

ZUCK YOU FUCKERBERG and all the ad-driven, now surveillance-driven dystopian monstrosities.

[FakeNoose]

19. Somebody reported you to FB and that's why it got deleted

The truth is that Facebook (the company) doesn't give a rat's-ass what anybody posts - UNTIL it gets reported. Most likely the person who reported you is a RWNJ, Magat, and Putin-lover.

I quit FB over a year ago and it no longer concerns me. But I have a suggestion for you, if you plan to stay on there and continue to fight the morons. When you make a political statement, be sure it's not so bluntly "liberal-sounding" because that's what the RWNJ's react to. If you can write it in a way that gets the point across indirectly and use some $3 words that they won't exactly understand, then they usually give it a pass.

Good luck my friend!

[LeftInTX]

20. FB also has algorithms

I had few posts auto-removed. I protested and they reinstated them. The posts were for benign things such as a black cat on Friday the 13th...(FB said it was spam)