Facebook "Community Standards"
Sep. 11th, 2016 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogEarlier today, I shared an essay on Facebook written by Jim Wright, a retired military officer, about 9/11 and the importance of moving beyond the blind nationalism that sometimes surrounds it. That we instead work toward the kind of national unity that can come from collective response to a crisis.
Facebook removed that post because it violated community standards. How 'bout that? Now it's gone from my timeline, down the memory hole.
I think that, more than anything else that's happened, inclines me toward closing down my Facebook account. I don't want to be a part of a communications venue that takes that kind of action. The problem is that I can't leave Facebook without closing the communication channels that connect me to many of the people I interact with the most frequently online. Facebook has become the de facto national messenger service for a large group of people, and it's really hard to opt out of that in a way that doesn't really and truly change one's position in a social network.
I need to think about potential responses or solutions to this.
Facebook removed that post because it violated community standards. How 'bout that? Now it's gone from my timeline, down the memory hole.
I think that, more than anything else that's happened, inclines me toward closing down my Facebook account. I don't want to be a part of a communications venue that takes that kind of action. The problem is that I can't leave Facebook without closing the communication channels that connect me to many of the people I interact with the most frequently online. Facebook has become the de facto national messenger service for a large group of people, and it's really hard to opt out of that in a way that doesn't really and truly change one's position in a social network.
I need to think about potential responses or solutions to this.
