{"id":5980,"date":"2016-06-16T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5980"},"modified":"2016-06-16T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T15:36:01","slug":"linked-facebook-deleted-a-transfeminine-rappers-post-about-the-orlando-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/06\/16\/linked-facebook-deleted-a-transfeminine-rappers-post-about-the-orlando-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: “Facebook Deleted a Transfeminine Rapper’s Post About The Orlando Shooting”"},"content":{"rendered":"

via Gizmodo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Facebook is getting slammed for twice removing transfeminine rapper Michete\u2019s post expressing solidarity with the Orlando massacre victims. The post was shared thousands of times on the network until Facebook abruptly deleted it. The company also banned the rapper from the network and sent him a notification that bafflingly included a warning about transmitting underage porn.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then, Michete says, Facebook banned him from using the social network for 24 hours after the second post.<\/em><\/p>\n

Facebook also allegedly blocked him from using the Facebook Messenger app for 72 hours. Michete sent us a notification he received by Facebook that included the lines: \u201cIn many countries, it\u2019s illegal to make, share or knowingly have images of anyone under the age of 18 involved in sexually explicit acts or behavior. This includes nudity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are rape jokes and death threats and neo-Nazi groups that exist on Facebook,\u201d Michete said in an interview with Gizmodo. \u201cI don\u2019t understand that double standard. There are a lot of things that get reported that never get taken down.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you want 5 corporations to own everything on the Internet, you\u2019re going to have to put up with censorship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you want to join the Internet and interact and share and ingest content and not pay for any of it, you\u2019re going to have to put up with advertisements and a total lack of privacy of your data owned by that corporation<\/p>\n

If you want to have free-speech (within what\u2019s legal, i.e. not pro-terrorism posts about ISIS or sharing child pornography), you\u2019ll have to buy your own web-server and start a blog. Heck, depending on what country your server is located and what country TLD you choose for your domain name, you can talk about anything you want. (Just look at how Pirate Bay has avoided being completely shut-down).<\/p>\n

Blogging is dead until you have something you want to say that\u2019s really important that might upset some people. Then, a blog is the only free-speech medium (not THAT medium<\/a>) you have.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame that this person\u2019s opinion was removed from Facebook (twice) and they were banned from logging into Facebook. The company says the whole thing was done in error. Yeah, right. Remember, you are not Facebook\u2019s Customer. The advertisers are. They run the show, you\u2019re just a set of eye-balls there to click ads.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Gizmodo: Facebook is getting slammed for twice removing transfeminine rapper Michete\u2019s post expressing solidarity with the Orlando…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-06-16T15:36:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"9c3ef357-2b5e-4e97-8254-2bdb99746a78","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-06-16T15:36:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AnD7zVyteTpeCVCvbmXRqeA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1ys","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7558,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/08\/30\/linked-how-every-cross-posted-tweet-disappeared-from-facebook\/","url_meta":{"origin":5980,"position":0},"title":"Linked: “How every cross-posted tweet disappeared from Facebook”","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"How every cross-posted tweet disappeared from Facebook -\u00a0Axios: \u201cFacebook had announced in January that it was removing a feature that allowed people to cross-post updates from Twitter.\u201d + \u201cWith the app\u2019s sole function eliminated, Twitter decided to delete it from the Facebook platform, having no reason to think that doing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Linked"","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6635,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/02\/02\/linked-rt-gets-banned-from-facebook-until-after-trumps-inauguration\/","url_meta":{"origin":5980,"position":1},"title":"Linked: “RT Gets Banned From Facebook Until After Trump’s Inauguration”","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Gizmodo: (which is now basically Gawker.com) In a surprise move, RT (formerly known as Russia Today) has been banned from posting articles, photos, and videos to Facebook. 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