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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Trump is the death president. Where are the human interest stories about people whose lives were distrupted or destroyed by Trump? By Hal M. Brown

 

We see videos of people being brutalized and treated as less than human by Trump’s immigrant hunting Gestapo. See, for example, “'Hard or easy?' ICE agents seen using terrifying new tactic to detain immigrants.” 

With notable exceptions like the few lucky people who came back after being brutalized in the Salvadoran prison of horrors, we don’t learn about how their lives are destroyed after they are disappeared.

These are the dramatic tales, but we also have untold stories about another group of people who weren’t literally grabbed up by masked Gestapo. 

(The actual Nazi Gestapo didn’t need to hide their identities. Nobody would dare go after them at home. Wait for this being a crime punished by summary execution here.)

Far less dramatic are the stories of how the lives of federal employees fired by the DOGE Boys and overall downsizing of federal agencies have been disrupted. 

The media looks at how the work of agencies is effected, a how in a few cases the government scrambled to rehired fired staff.

Depending on where you look the numbers of people who lost their jobs because of DOGE start at a low of 130,000 and go up from there. This is a Google search for aritlces about this.

This is the AI created overview:

While the exact number is difficult to pinpoint due to limited public disclosure, it's estimated that around 135,000 federal workers have been fired or resigned as a result of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) workforce reductions. This figure includes both outright firings and voluntary departures, such as buyouts, that were prompted by the initiative.Additionally, there are plans for further reductions, potentially reaching a total of 285,000 lost jobs, according to some sources

Here’s a Reuters article:

Trump’s handling of Covid caused impossible to precisely determine loss of life and considerable suffering. “Approximately 450,000 Americans died from COVID-19 during the final year of Donald Trump's presidency, with studies suggesting that about 40% of these deaths could have been avoided if the U.S. had matched the death rates of other wealthy nations. His administration's response has been widely criticized for being inadequate and harmful to public health.” (AI generated)

Here’s a Scientific American article about this:

If 285,000 people died as a direct and incontrovertible of something a president did it would headline news. It would have to be something akin to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which caused 150,000 to 246,000 deaths. However, consider the following: 

More than 14 million additional deaths are projected to occur globally by 2030 due to cuts to USAID, including over 4.5 million children under the age of five. These estimates are based on the significant reduction in health and humanitarian programs previously supported by the agency. (AI generated)

People tend to respond emotionally to human interest stories, to accounts of how a person who they would relate to was effected by trauma. These stories take numbers, in the most famous example the 6+ million people who died by disease, starvation, or murder in the Holocaust death camps, and focus on just one individual. Anne Frank is a good example. Anne Frank died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Right now in the land of the free and the home of the brave we have people hiding out for fear of Trump’s Gestapo. There may even be a 15 year old immigrant girl being hidden in someone’s attic.

I am not naive enough to think that one compelling story, one diary that could be published and made into numerous movies, could pull at the collective heartstrings of MAGA. That is the height of wishful thinking. Trump and his MAGA minions have no heart.

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Addendum:

I posted a link to yesterday’s Substack about South Park’s show about Trump on Facebook and it was removed for the reason shown below.

I’m not going to appeal this. I hope readers don’t count on Facebook to find my Substacks. I far prefer that those who like what I write Subscribe. 

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