Facebook is actively removing postings I'm making today.

William Lindsey :toad:

@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.

William Lindsey :toad:

@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….

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@wdlindsy

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

Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀

@wdlindsy i often set traps

Steve Woods

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

Steve Woods

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

Cookiefiend

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

Muro deGrizeco :toad:

@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

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

Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@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..

Muro deGrizeco :toad:

@wdlindsy

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

"Twitter is a town square"

William Lindsey :toad:

@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.

William Lindsey :toad:

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

William Lindsey :toad:

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

William Lindsey :toad:

@murodegrizeco I've noticed that a lot of the clearly fake and suspect accounts on Facebook do nothing but that — post photos of kittens, flowers, exotic scenes in exotic cities. They go totally unharrassed by FB, though they're obviously fake accounts.

William Lindsey :toad:

@LPerry2 @oof So I've concluded. And I think the reason probably is that someone or several someones monitors my postings and has reported me to FB in an attempt to try to silence me.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wood5y Yes, that was definitely one of the spirituals in which a message was encoded that would be heard loudly and clearly by enslaved people singing the song from field to field — the message that someone was escaping — but would go right over the heads of slaveholders and overseers.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wood5y

William Lindsey :toad:

@MishaVanMollusq Clever of you to think to do that. You just never know who someone on social media really is, do you, unless he/she has made their identity public?

William Lindsey :toad:

@partnumber2 Yes, I know the word in that sense, as an adjective. Hadn't seen it used as a noun before. That's a clever use.