Facebook warned me about posting nudity, removed my South Park Trump episode Substack link, and then suspended me outright for a "cybersecurity violation."

 

This is a Substack about what Facebook did to me, not once but twice on two consecutive days. It is also about one of Trump’s pals. This pal is one of those buddies who didn’t molest underage girls, Mark Zuckerberg, the second richest man the the world after Elon Musk. 

Zuckerberg owns a large enough stake in Meta, which owns Facebook, to personally control it. 

I am also sharing this story because, well, because I can:

Here’s Musk’s proving what kind of sad excuse for a human being he is: “Elon Musk Amplifies Bizarre Claim That 'Women Are Built To Be Traded'“  This is Mark Zuckerberg on women: “Mark Zuckerberg says companies need more 'masculine energy.' What does that even mean?”

Lord, save us from the oligarchs who think money equals manhood, and who are obsessed with proving they are the biggest, baddest Megasaurus of the manosphere.

Here’s the story about what Facebook did to me, but it is also a notice for anyone who likes to read my Substack by going to my Facebook page and clicking the links I post there. It is also for anyone else who I use Facebook to follow. Unless they reinstate me anyone who looks for me there won’t be albe to go to my Facebook page.

I may be saying goodbye to Facebook forever. I’ve been using them to post links to my Substack stories and to read and post on a few other Facebook pages, including Sabrina Haake’s and one on Trump being mentally ill. I also follow real life friends, some who I haven’t seen in decades, as they post about their lives/

Here’s what happened after I posted a link to Wednesday’s Substack about, among other things, the South Park episode about Trump. I posted a link on my Facebook post to this story:

Instantly I got this message:

Yesterday I went to a website about Trump being mentally ill to let them know about the Substack I’d just posted. Because Facebook lets me post a link to anything I write only once a day, I posted a link to BlueSky which they could go to and see this:

I instantly got this email:

Perhaps they consider my link to BlueSky a violation of their rules against promoting another business:

Here’s Meta’s cybersecurity page. I can’t see how anything I posted there violates their standards and rules in the slightest way. All I can think of is that they flagged a link to a competing social media site.

Obviously, my own free Substack should not be considered a business. However, BlueSky can be considered a Facebook competitor even though it is more a competitor of X which is owned by Elon Musk. Consider this from last year:

I assumed that they had an algorithm which flags any link to BlueSky. I don’t know if the same applies to links to X. This is just an assumption/

So I got the double whammy from the Meta maestro, Mark, who wants to make sure everyone marches to his Meta music, and his MAGA music when it comes to The Washington Post. It is probably something composed by Wagner. Sorry schmucky Zucky, I don’t dance to an oligarch’s orchestrations.

I finally relented after thinking I’d just give up on Facebook and did submit an appeal, so I may have to follow up with a mea culpa. I’ll let you know what happens.

Advisory: 

If anyone is tempted to post a link to this Substack on their own Facebook page they risk losing their account. Consider the following from this entry on Wikipedia (my emphasis added):

Censorship of criticism of Facebook

Newspapers regularly report stories of users who claim they've been censored on Facebook for being critical of Facebook itself, with their posts removed or made less visible. Examples include Elizabeth Warren in 2019^[52] and Rotem Shtarkman in 2016.^[53]

In the context of media reports^[54] and lawsuits^[55] from people formerly working on Facebook content moderation, a former Facebook moderator (Chris Gray) has claimed that specific rules existed to monitor and sometimes target posts about Facebook which are anti-Facebook or criticize Facebook for some action,for instance by matching the keywords "Facebook" or "DeleteFacebook".^[56]

I would appreciate those who are on Substack sharing it.

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On another subject:

There was an article I found interesting which was published in The Conversation (and RawStory): “Roman Empire and the fall of Nero offer possible lessons for Trump about the cost of self-isolation.”

Trump may come to be known years from now as the president who built a giant gold plated ballroom attached to The White House and managed to get his face on Mt. Rushmore while his country burned. 

Nero’s reign ended four years after the fire with armies bearing down on the city, he committed suicide. Rome tumbled into civil war.

Freudenburg concludes his article with the following:

Self-worship in the Trump era. 

Trump’s critics have long noted the president’s propensity to focus on himself and his own greatness and power, rather than the needs of citizens.

As far away as the Roman Empire might seem, Nero’s rise and fall offers a lesson in what can happen when honest criticism of a political leader is sidelined in favor of idolatry.

Instead of honest solutions to real problems, what Romans got was a colossal statue that portrayed their leader as a god on Earth.

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Tucker interviewed a disgusting man, Elon promoted this, it reinforces my deciding to be one of 100 million who joined Zuck's Threads

By Hal Brown

Link just to this page here.

I won't even go into who the man Tucker Calson interviewed on Twitter is and what he did. You can click here to read The Salon article about him and how desperate for attention it demonstrates Carlson is.

Amanda Marcotte's article includes this xkcd free to share cartoon:

Here's a version with a word I changed so it applies to me:

Twitter was a useful tool for communication which you could liken to the telephone before robocalls. Then a billionarie known for innovation in other fields bought it and he turned out to be a creep intent on making the popular social media platform into a megaphone for lies and hate.

Another billionaire who already owned equally popular but slightly diffrent  social media platforms launched a competitor to the creepy guy's.

Within a week 100 million people joined the new platform. I was one of them.

I admit I had one self-serving reason. This was a way to post links to my most recent blogs.

My Threads page

I had no illusions that this would lead to many, if any, new  readers. So far I have no followers. On Twitter (here), which I joined for reasons I don't remember in 2013, I have 162 followers a few of whom are well known.

My second reason for joining threads was to be one of the 100 million and take a jab at the creepy billionaire.

As the Salon article shows, the creepy billionaire's platform has become less popular since he took it over. 

Of course everyone knows the real life actors in this drama are. In the unlikely case that you don't, this is from Business Insider: Musk and Zuck promised us a cage fight, but what we've got are 2 reply guys trading petty jabs.

When Elon Musk took over Twitter I joined Mastodon (my page is here) where I've already made over 1,000 posts.

Mastodon was supposed to be a one of several Twitter killers (article)... read about their diffrences here.

Unfortuately Twitter managed to hold on even though fewer people were using it.

https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/

I just checked my Threads link and saw that The New York Tines, NPR, and CBS News had posted liks to recent articles there. 

One the main drawbacks to the Threads vs. Twitter competition is that the former can for now only be accessed through an app dowloaded to a smart phone while you can get to Twitter both on your cellphone and laptop. 

"Meta has not confirmed whether it’s working on a web app to make Threads available through a web browser. But every single major social media app – such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter – is available through a web browser, so we imagine it’s only a matter of time until Thread expands to desktop." (Reference)

Twitter continues to stay high in the rankings because so many notable people from celebrities up to and including President Biden are using it to communicate. 

Taylor Swift has almost three times as many followers as President Biden:

Of course people are used to Twitter and lots of them don't care about that Musk has made it so toxic they'd spit it out like they'd just bitten into a worm in an apple. I'm still using it to promote my blog stories so I'm just talking the talk and not walking the walk. I've posted a link to this blog as a way, albeit to negligible effect, to express my opinion of Musk.

I have no way to predict whether anyone will engage my tweet and will read this as a result. I'll update this later in the day to report on this.