After over a month of back and forth with Facebook, excuses, different messages, error messages (like the one above) and being told “It’s A Wonderful Life” commentary violates community standards, I can (which means YOU can) once again share Ethics Alarms posts on Facebook, at least today.
And believe me, I’m going to share the hell out of them.
Just thought I should let you know.
ADDENDUM: I just got back from walking Rugby…
…in the melting snow, and had a chance to muse further. This episode has angered me, and I will not trust Facebook (though I never have), and more importantly Facebook users, including my alleged friends. Someone tried to silence me online, and that was just an escalation of what I have witnessed from Facebook’s majority for more than two years. They have used their “likes” and “angry face” emojis to try to indoctrinate the public into ideological conformity, weaponizing what was once a friendly platform for civil conversation and the exchange of information into a hostile environment for anyone not inclined to toe the partisan line. In this new and oppressive echo chamber, the response to good faith efforts to correct media misrepresentation and civic or historical ignorance is to gang-swarm the intruder, and, as the old Chinese saying has it, beat down the nail that dares to stick out. For the most part, it works.
Well, not with me. I had the honor and luck to be raised by a man, the best, bravest most honest I have ever known, who was a lifelong iconoclast, rebel and contrarian, though he was also always pleasant about it and never blamed people for being less perspicacious than he was. (I’m working on it, Dad…) I saw him pay the price with a frequently interrupted employment record, few close friends, and a loss of some lucrative opportunities that would have required him to compromise his principles, which were never for sale. I also say him live his life without ever regretting his intellectual independence and courage under fire for a second.
I’m not forgetting what they tried to do to me and Ethic Alarms over the past two months. The gloves are off.
Ethics Alarms 
Hmmm . . . . I tried to post the “Pussy Grabber” post to Facebook but it didn’t work.
jvb
I could almost see a block on unacceptable word ‘pussy’ posts that young kids might read, but not everything. They could let the poster mark single posts as adult, but it is pointless as far more mean actions by celebs are in the news every day. This place is very civil, due to the kid donated time for moderation by our host. Moderated sites are far better for that service, like the old Callahan’s IRC channel that had far over a dozen mods and was wonderful.
I did complain to Facebook. The Arby’s story was a perfect example of a positive post blocked by stupidity.
Thanks.
I wasn’t aware of this. I’ve shared your posts on FB many times with no problems and will proudly keep doing so.
I still can’t post your links on Facebook, so I’ve pretty much stopped posting to Facebook. If posts discussing ethics are a violation of community standards, that’s not a community I want to promote, support, or be a part of.
Yes, I am slowly reaching the same conclusion, Jake.
Just tried to share this. Failed.
How ironic!
And I just attempted to share your KABOOM! post about Biden — it got blocked as SPAM.
Thanks for the report. At leas FB is rejecting the posts for a variety of excuses.
I’ve stopped all interaction with Facebook. Apparently I have 299 messages from “close friends” that I haven’t opened. There are about 10 people I pay attention to… I just got so tired of all the leftist screeds by presumably intelligent ‘friends’ that it just wasn’t worth my time. Facebook, once a great way to stay in touch with people, has become a psychotic, leftist, anti-Trump platform, and there’s enough of that in the general media. Who needs it? Let them talk to each other: they are not willing or able to engage in real dialogue about any issue, anyway. Just want to bleat out the same hatred and ignorance, over and over and over again. Screw ’em.
From your point of view, though, keep fighting. You can and should stay courageous, and not just opt out.
Social media is evil.
Jack has an interest in getting exposure for his excellent analysis there, So I understand why he puts up with their two faced horseshite.
I was military intelligence once upon a time, in a job that worked to piece together enough information about an enemy to be able to find them, for the purpose of persuading them to assume room temperature.
Social media is a government’s wet dream. All that information is being recorded, indexed, and carefully filed away *just in case* they ever want to… find you. Or your family. Or your neighbor, about whom you have posted cute stories over the years. All that info, just waiting for a guy who was trained as I have been, and is suddenly tasked with… finding you.
Social media is evil.