Rant #3,223: Talk Talk

Amidst all the muss and the fuss, I find myself in Facebook jail again—

And this time for a solid month.

I have no idea why I am in there, because Facebook is very cryptic in the way they explain your punishment.

Evidently, I am breaking their cybersecurity rules, but they do not explain exactly how I am breaking them, what I wrote that got them excited, nor any way to rectify the situation.

Sure, they state that you can fight the action, but they limit the tools that you can fight back with, and even though they state that they will get back to you in four days, they rarely do—

And when they do—as they did during about my fourth time in Facebook jail, whey they accused me of posting nudity on my sites—they still keep you in the hoosegow, even when they agree that what they found was, well, unfounded and unwarranted.

This social networking forum is not going to shut me up and prevent me from writing what is on my mind—

Much of which pales in comparison to what I see others post on the site, including ultra-political, sexual, racist and anti-Semitic material.

How my posts even are under such scrutiny is beyond me, especially when you see the other stuff that their censors let through.

As I have said before, it leads me to believe that an individual is targeting my posts for some unknown reason, pointing them out to Facebook, and action is being taken—

Even though my posts are pretty benign and are not controversial in the least.

Heck, past posts that I have put up could be interpreted as being more toxic that what I have put up lately and they passed muster—

Why not my recent posts?

Facebook is under wide scrutiny from a lot of quarters for how it handles its posts.

Sick people have put up everything from vile material to other things that have led to violence and death, and the government has been cracking down on its possible culpability in allowing certain posts to go through which have led to horrible things.

So the Facebook police have stepped up their efforts to police the site, which I can understand, but micromanaging benign posts like mine doesn’t really give anyone any confidence that when there is really something to clamp down on, they will be able to hone those posts out and do what needs to be done.

This very post might not make it to Facebook since it knocks the social networking site and its practices, but it really doesn’t matter, because I also use another forum for my thoughts, and that is Google and its blogs.

I have been a blog writer for many years on Google, and I only started to put up my thoughts on Facebook due to a request from a long-time friend, who felt it was easier for him to read my thoughts there than on the actual blog site.

I gave in, and it was a good move, because it did expand the audience for what I write and what my thoughts are.

But at the same time, it opened me up to much more scrutiny, which is fine with me if it is positive scrutiny and opens up my mind to other thoughts and viewpoints.

Facebook’s scrutiny is not that—it simply brands you as a perpetrator without explanation, or at least without explanation that makes the least bit of sense, and there really is no comeback—once you are in jail, you are a real jailbird.

The funny thing is that while I cannot post directly in my groups—daily posts sustain these groups—I can generally post my thoughts outside of the group, so my thoughts are getting out there on Facebook, but not within the group structure—

Once again demonstrating how insipid Facebook’s policies are, because if they are trying to squelch me for whatever reason, they are failing to do that because my thoughts can be put on the site, just not within the group structure.

And even if they restrict a post like this one, just click onto my actual blog site at http://rantingraving2.blogspot.com/ and you will be able to see what I write, and agree or disagree with it, which is your right.

And ultimately, freedom of expression is my right, and my ideas and thoughts will get out there with or without Facebook upholding that right.