It seems that despite all the assurances we’ve heard from Facebook executives and spokespeople, the beatings continue on the social media site now known as the “world’s most dangerous censor.”
On Friday, we received word that Facebook banned a user over a meme that decries anti-Semitism while taking a polite stab at those who seem to have forgotten the history of the last 80 years or so.
Here’s the offending picture, as Facebook presented it:
It’s impossible to say why or how this violates Facebook’s Community Standards.
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
Unless, of course, Facebook is saying that it requires users to be anti-Semitic. After all, we know what happens to memes critical of another religion…
We looked through Facebook’s standards and saw nothing to indicate that users have to be anti-Semitic. Perhaps this is a recent change the company forgot to announce.
Reaction was pretty much what one would expect.
“I posted that once and also got a ban for the very same thing,” one person said.
“I guess the truth hurts!” added another user.
“I think that if enough people report a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, FB will remove it and ban you,” another person said.
“Probably, unless your surname is Ahmed and its about killing Zionists, thats (sic) always ok!” one visitor said in response.
Sadly, that seems to be closer to the truth than most people know.
One person posted a response showing the social media giant’s hypocrisy:
There is no good reason, obviously. Unbelievably, Facebook executives and spokespeople tell us things like this don’t happen. They tell us they’ve investigated themselves and have found no wrongdoing. Meanwhile, their moderators continue to impose bans based, it seems, on ideology.
Incidents like this are the reason that Adina Kutnicki, an investigative journalist based in Israel, and I wrote “BANNED: How Facebook enables militant Islamic jihad.” That book, endorsed by Pam Geller, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, is set to be published sometime this fall, perhaps as early as August.
Related:
- Facebook bans Pam Geller, removes ‘Stop Islamization’ group in wake of Orlando attack
- Facebook’s Zuckerberg sits mute when confronted over anti-conservative bias by shareholder
- Facebook banned this meme about transgender
- Facebook bans Allen West page admin for post saying 3,000 killed on 9/11 without guns for 30 days
- A short list of words safe to use on Facebook
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