Facebook Is Flagging/Banning Accounts For Posting An Admitte

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wtf



I'll admit that very few things in this existence we all share give me as much pleasure at poking at the prudish censorship employed by Facebook. The overly broad puritanical guidelines, theoretically designed to save our sensitive eyes from anything as horrible as a breast or a chipolata, often instead results in the censorship of parody, renowned artwork, and bronze statues. That sincere but misguided attempt to keep things PG on its site is inherently funny, but nearly as inherently funny as is the fact that the following image was (rather innocently) included in one of a collection of children's books in France, entitled Images of Ponies and Horses

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Another good read...

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Thought I'd seen it before...

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The thing is they are all innocent and it's our dirty minds turning it into something else. So basically facepoop are deciding on what should see and think. Brainwashing.....it's OK to post silly pictures of a pet cat but not educational pictures in a kids book that is pointing out the similarities in bone structure between a Horse and a Human. That Big Brother clip would be allowed because it's TV, something that is in the media and popular. Personally I 'd rather educate the youngsters with the Horse.

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https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/ ... srWGN6KaOl

Welll it seems that folk were sharing it with the title including "wombles horse" so that's a bit of a head's up for FB to to do something on the side of caution - and bear in mind folk as young at 13 can have a FB account. And then there's other folk arguing that FB doesn't do enough... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30793702

Mr Balkam (chief executive - Family Online Safety Institute (Fosi)) said he was "delighted" by Facebook's move.
"I also think that it has walked a very fine line between protection of users and protection of free expression, and I think it has got it just about right," he added.

Meanwhile good work is continually being done on the interweb on more pressing issues... https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/in ... h-wowihay/

and as a result of a 'wrong' click in some countries can have more serious consquences than having a dodgy horse donger pic go AWOL > http://www.khodorkovsky.com/whatever-yo ... s-ukraine/

Andrei Bubeyev, a mechanical engineer from Tver, was recently sentenced to two years and three months in a prison colony for sharing on Vkontakte an article by the radical political activist Boris Stomakhin, titled “Crimea is Ukraine.”

It was revealed during the trial that Bubeyev hadn’t even read the article he shared with his 12 (yes, twelve) friends on the social network. He simply agreed with the headline. Nevertheless, Bubeyev, a father to two young children, was accused of inciting extremism and calling for the violation of the territorial integrity of Russia. No mention was made of Russia violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine. But Ukraine did win Eurovision, which for some reason people think means that both sides are somehow even …