Facebook is actively removing postings I'm making today.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MishaVanMollusq Bribery's not my thing!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse Definitely appalling. And rooted in such corruption.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@partnumber2 You've taught me a good new noun I hadn't encountered before: septic. I'm sorry you encountered this with Facebook, too.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@vfrmedia Interesting information, for sure. Thank you for it.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Luuk_Aalders Yes, so it seems to me.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@beingreal Again with the taunts. What good purpose do you really think you're serving by attacking people who are pursuing goals you claim to be pursuing, too? Couldn't that energy be so much better used by standing with people who may come from different starting points but are moving to the same ends you claim you want? What gives any of us the right to draw these kind of purist insider-outsider lines and declare ourselves the pure and others the impure? So dysfunctional.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@wood5y Yes, I think that's always been a common tactic in dealing with oppressive regimes, don't you? Enslaved people in the US South used coded language, singing certain spirituals as they worked to convey news to other enslaved people that someone had made a run for freedom, for example. Biblical scholars think that the book of the Apocalypse/Revelations in the Christian scriptures is written in symbolic, coded language, to convey meaning that evaded oppressive authority figures.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@oof I can understand the trigger that may have provoked censoring the A.R. Moxon excerpt with its use of the word Nazi and of a photo of a swastika. My focus is on the Jess Piper graphic, which Facebook took down immediately when I posted it, but which a follower here on Mastodon subsequently posted, and FB did nothing to censor her. I'm asking why the disparity….

[partnumber2@c.im]

@wdlindsy

‘Septic’ is from the rhyming slang ‘septic tank’ = Yank (American)

[mishavanmollusq@sfba.social]

@wdlindsy i often set traps

[wood5y@mastodonapp.uk]

@wdlindsy I immediately thought of Wade In The Water when you mentioned slaves.

[wood5y@mastodonapp.uk]

@wdlindsy PS: now about those oppressive authority figures...

[lperry2@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy @oof A white female friend has posted that graphic several times with no censorship. Clearly you are targeted.

[murodegrizeco@toad.social]

@wdlindsy

Near the end of my use of Facebook in 2018, I had an eerie feeling that if I posted depressing things, nobody would ever see them.

Based on that, I started a thread with a kitten image, "We luv kittehs!"

Then a flower image, "flowers is so pritty!"

Then a picture of a cup of coffee, "Best way to start day!"

Getting lots of Likes and "Ha ha!" responses from my Friends.

But in last image, under coffee cup was coaster with scrawled words,

"Novichok was a NATO Article 5 attack."

[snigdha@mas.to]

@wdlindsy It seems the bigger Social media platforms have a clear agenda.

[vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de]

@wdlindsy something else I just realised as I was driving to work is that Meta in UK generally allows all sorts of animal rights related content uncensored, even activism such as hunt saboteurs (in UK hunting with dogs in illegal but folk in rural areas still try it).

Again, this is likely due to potential ad revenue - those who are kind to animals tend to both have pets and share food with other creatures such as foxes, badgers as well as feeding wild birds, so more sales opportunities..

[murodegrizeco@toad.social]

@wdlindsy

Trying to understand an online property, we make dubious models in our heads and use poor analogies.

"Twitter is a town square"

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@murodegrizeco Yes. Ludicrously, we did use to speak of Twitter as a "town square," overlooking that it was (and still is) a property owned by super-rich people and could at any moment be put to whatever maleficent purposes they wanted to apply to it.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@vfrmedia Yes, you have great examples to back up your argument.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@snigdha It does, indeed. And it's not a serving-humanity agenda but an exploiting-humanity agenda.