stormdog | Facebook "Community Standards"

Earlier 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.