The picture that got me banned from FB

They allow images of grotesque violence. They allow hate speech, racist speech, and calls for the rape, torture, and murder of women. They allow calls for acid to be thrown in the faces of women who won’t put out. They allow radical right wing whack jobs to say and show anything they wish. They promote gun violence. They promote extreme religious hate, violence, and they promote cop murder, school shootings, and human trafficking. All of that is fine and dandy with FaceBook.

Keep in mind, I did not post this until FB threatened me, stating that I had been reported for posting nudity.  Which I had not.  So I decided, if I was going to be falsely charged yet again by the irregularly-scheduled right wing sweep through of trolls, I would go ahead and post an example of what so offended them.  A nude woman.

This, below, is not. This, below, gets you banned.

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No, it’s not art.  It’s not offensive, either.  It’s just a nude woman, a young woman posing to show her body for those who will enjoy it.  The aesthetics are those of fine art, even if the execution is not Helmut Newton.

Check here for Helmut Newton nudes:   Newton Nudes

In any case, know that Facebook operates its right wing fascist platform mostly as a data mining scam.  It’s about theft of intellectual property, siphoning away your information and destroying your privacy, and controlling your every move and thought, not freedom of expression or the free exchange of ideas.  Social medium?  More a social mold they’re forcing you into and most of you don’t even feel the squeeze or the cuts.  They pick and choose the ideas and terms.  They decide what is okay for you to see, say, or think.  If they feel like it, for any reason at all, they can censor and suppress your voice.  They can shut you up and shut you down on their whim.

You have no recourse.  No chance to talk back, to explain, or to counter the charges.  Kafka would shrug and nod, he’d understand, and he’d advise existential despair.  Most would agree, and the chronic depression afflicted on the majority of us by the 1% rich is a vile form of class warfare focused on keeping us enslaved and docile enough to be profitable.

Do you want that?  Would anyone sane want this?

Death to censorship and fascism in all forms.

 

About Gene Stewart

Born 7 Feb 1958 Altoona, PA, USA Married 1980 Three sons, grown Have lived in Japan, Germany, all over US Currently in Nebraska I write, paint, play guitar Read widely Wide taste in music, movies Wide range of interests Hate god yap Humanist, Rationalist, Fortean Love the eerie
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