I haven’t joined Facebook because too many people I know have told me they have suffered similiar fates.
This rather high-handed behavior has been done a lot in computer circles. TPM itself did it to me in 2014 when I made an observation about the late, unlamented Andrew Breitbart after his ticker blew him to Kingdom Come. My post was eliminated by a former editor and when I inquired why, since the observation was rather witty and not profane, THAT was deleted as well along with a mention of alternative websites posters had joined after they had been deleted. Then they denied deleting what they had deleted. When other posters leapt to my defense. Any discussion of Breitbart THEY had was deleted as well.
Guess they showed US.
[Rolls eyes.]
After the person who deleted my Breitbart commentary had moved on to another job, I went back to regularly posting my rather irreverent remarks.
“It is not permissible for Facebook to keep a user off the platform for an undefined period, with no criteria for when or whether the account will be restored,” the board said. Within six months of Wednesday’s decision from the board, Facebook must “review this matter to determine and justify a proportionate response that is consistent with the rules that are applied to other users of its platform.”
Like-- users who conspired and incited a mob to overthrow our system of government?
Trump probably is a living person. Now that Kevin McCarthy on the other hand has all the signs of a simulacrum. If you had a friend who walked and talked like that, you’d look in his earholes to check for wires.
I like it for keeping up with acquaintances, but I have never put any identifying info in any of my profiles. My friends know who I am.
I fear google and FB much more than the NSA.
A neighbor was complaining about the vaccine passports, saying that she didn’t want everyone to know her medical history (?). I asked her if she was on the portal in the U_M health system. She said yes. Okay, it’s all right there. Yeah, but…but it’s an app! So is the portal. You’ll still need a password.
Besides, sweetie. You’re on FB. They know more about you than you can possibly imagine.
Social media is an ever-present stupid trap.
Be stupid on SM, the world will find it. Deleting it is futile.
Stupidity is always screencapped or downloaded for posterity.
You’re being tracked and sold as a product, whether you have any identifying info on FB or not. Your “personal info” is more than your name and address, it’s a profile built up from every conversation you have on the platform. Also, Google is far less evil than FB, it doesn’t treat personal info the same way. It’s why I’ve never been on FB.
This is a good explanation of “how the sausage is made” on FB, from an Atlantic article by James Fallows, quoting one who knows. It’s from 2018 but I don’t think anything has changed in how FB uses personal data:
Yep advertisers know I was born in 1928 currently reside in Sofia Bulgaria and attend a Methodist church in SC. They can run with that profile.
If someone uses to FB to buy/sell or date, then caveat emptor.
That being said I’m sure Mark Zuckerberg knows my home address.
I have a couple of Facebook friends who’ve been permanently banned, so I have no idea WTF they’re talking about as far as not banning people for an indefinite amount of time. This should be a no-brainer. He incited an insurrection against our country and then refused to use his platform to stop it even after being begged to do so and he did it as over 150 cops were literally fighting for their lives. And he’s still, still spreading the Big Lie which is what started it all in the first place. What more do they need? There was less evidence against Chauvin, and there almost couldn’t have been more evidence against him.
The NSA has never said to me
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while we’re on the topic I also have as much google android stuff as possible disabled on my phone, you have to go into settings and force stop.
I’m on FB because it’s required in order to have a group page and our rescue has benefitted from the group page, it gets us donations and our name out there.
Personally I’ve been put in FB jail 7 times now, for offences as “horrible” as calling someone an idiot. Nobody died. If FB wants consistency, they need to ban people like trump on the same level they ban the rest of us. Or just keep putting him in jail for everything he says.
thanks for posting this, but I have to say that while the capitol mob looked like gen X - most of the screamers and anti maskers etc in daily life look like younger generations - I’d say the facebook was general flypaper for hate - not age specific
We didn’t predict things of this nature, but our gut told my wife and I to stay away from FB. It’s just too damned invasive. I know I have things about me on FB. Nothing bad so far as I know. Put there by friends and relatives on their own sites with good intent. As for dangerous political uses, the Law of Unintended Consequences revealed herself on social media.
I just never use it. I keep in touch with the people in my life who I think are worth a damn and the others…well, I just do what we all did before Facebook even existed,
And I write letters too…in longhand. At least I did before the cerebral aneursym messed with my penmanship.Now I have to use a printer.
He does if you ever bought anything on line - at least you mailing address. And what you bought and how many times you bought it. You can get a lot of information through buying habits.
At least it seems that people on FB have pretty much stopped saying when they are going on vacation and how long they will be gone and that their new security system doesn’t seem to be working and how far they are from the nearest neighbor.
