I recently was banned from Facebook for 30 days – allegedly for violating “community standards”. Here is a screenshot of the notification I received.
Above is a screenshot from my phone. When I hit continue, I eventually arrived at a screen attempting to explain which “community standards” I had violated, It looked like this:
Sensible people might view this and ask the following questions:
- Does the posted graphic promote or have anything to do with “terrorist activity”?
- Does the posted graphic promote or have anything to do with “organized hate or violence”?
- Does the posted graphic promote or have anything to do with “mass or serial murder”?
- Does the posted graphic promote or have anything to do with “human trafficking”?
- Does the posted graphic promote or have anything to do with “criminal or harmful activity”?
I’m a pretty reasonable guy. I can’t imagine how the graphic posted at the beginning of this does any of the five things listed above as things Facebook can’t tolerate. Which rule did I break?
I therefore must assume that that wasn’t put in Facebook jail for actually violating any published Facebook policy, but for making wannabe fascists uncomfortable.