Month: April 2021

Facebook is no longer an outlet through which I can adequately express myself. While venting about my car being broken into, after reviewing the security camera footage, I correctly identified the perpetrators of the theft as white trash. And for the second time in three months, I got a notice telling me I’d violated Facebook’s hate speech policy, their “community standards,” by using the term “white trash.”

I originally posted: “Sigh. My car got broken into … AGAIN. They got some change, my portable air compressor … and an irreplaceable old-time Father Christmas decoration that was packed up to go to the storage unit that used to belong to Jay’s mom. Gone. Irretrievable. I am so thoroughly sick and tired of people who can’t respect other people’s property. I have ZERO respect for thieves and vandals, and I have no sympathy or empathy for them. I would be much happier living in a society where they didn’t exist, or had all been removed. To me, being a good person means: leave other people alone. Don’t harm them, don’t mess with their things, and just try to stay out of everyone’s way and mind your own. It really isn’t that difficult, and I’m not fond of people who can’t abide these simple rules.”

Then, a little bit later, I commented an update, which was immediately flagged by Zuckerbots.

The post on January 6th was an image posted in an anti-Trump group of Ivanka Trump and Kelly Loeffler. And I, again, correctly, identified them as “Rich white trash.” And Facebook suspended my posting, commenting, and liking ability for 24 hours.

Fuck that shit. That’s goddamned nonsense.

But, hey, that’s not the only restriction on my account.

Why can’t I go live or advertise for 30 days? Because they dug up an old meme I’d shared back in August of2019. A meme I found ON FACEBOOK, and shared ON FACEBOOK. It was an obvious joke, a pun, and It was removed for supporting serial killers or mass murderers. Take a look and see what you think:

I have a dark sense of humor. I like to push buttons. I’m not comfortable with safe spaces and politically correct bullshit. I have a brain, and I use it to think for myself and not conform to groupthink. I have dissenting opinions on almost everything. I know that I have freedom of speech in America. My rights have not been infringed upon. But Facebook is clearly not a place where people are encouraged to express that freedom of speech, and so it is no longer a place that is in any way useful to me. Well, I guess it’s marginally useful for sharing external links for the benefit of people who refuse to follow me on Twitter or Tumblr … but that’s it.