“No more dog photos? I like the dog photos!”
Pretty pithy, no? Turns out, Facebook hated it. You’d think they’d hate it because it’s about their staff – pudgy college-bred Marxists who are begging to live La Vida Deathcamp. But no. The problem is their AI software thinks the photo is advocating eating disorders or something:
It’s hard not to agree with them that Marxism is suicidal – but only incidentally. Marxism is genocide, and Facebook is complicit.
Since this is the third time I’ve been caught out telling the truth on Facebook, I am banned for three days. In addition, they imagine that I would ever think of giving them money again, so they won’t “let” me advertise for 30 days. There’s more, but we care a lot.
The question is: What next? I like Facebook as an experience, but I hate the people behind it, and, as with Twitter, I knew it was going to have to go. It’s a self-destructive grace on Facebook’s part for them to work so hard to make an enemy of me: They need free content – it’s the draw – so pissing off content-creators one-by-one is just the kind of business strategy I like to see them pursuing.
Where for me? Here. I came back to BloodhoundBlog because I saw this coming. If you want to hear what I have to say, subscribe by email or CSS. If you want others to hear what the Bloodhounds are saying, you have to do the linking. I’ll be on Gab as @GregSwann going forward, but I have no following there, so far. I will continue to post the very rudest of attacks to LinkedIn, but they’ll throw me off in due course, too.
But that’s why you should be here: We tell the truth that gets censored everywhere else.
In other news:
CNBC: Renters are behind $3,700 in rent, on average. This map shows a state breakout.
Joel Kotkin: Garcetti’s Legacy.
The American Spectator: The Recycling Police Are Here, and They’re Not Happy With You: Government officials spy and surveil ordinary citizens. For forty years, I’ve been sitting on a Willie story about the Recyclops, a single-minded trash-barrel compliance office. Plausible at last?
City Journal: The Children of H&M: A woke corporate ad campaign shows that there are many ways to exploit the young. The first question to ask of any child with adult opinions: “What’s six times seven?” If you don’t know the times table, you don’t know anything.
J.D. Tucille: Don’t Surrender to the Pandemic Control Freaks: They’ll never be satisfied in a world of balanced risks.
Victoria Taft: That Senate Infrastructure Bill Shreds Privacy in the Sanctuary of Your Own Car and Blows Up the Budget. Why Is the GOP Helping?
Ryan Hartman says:
Nice to see you rolling here again. The ban was most likely the body stuff and not the nature of the message, but who knows…either way the censorship is unfortunate…and will end up being bad for zuck and his biz.
August 7, 2021 — 8:01 am
Greg Swann says:
Hey, there. Nice to see you. You still ave creds here, when you’re feeling frisky.
I’m sure you’re right: I expect the photo was made for anti-eating-disorders purposes, and some memesmith seen his opportunity and took it.
August 7, 2021 — 9:05 am