Facebook community standards!

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Facebook treated a post which showed an image of a buttock in protest of recent FB restrictions in Sri Lanka as “SPAM” which was published by a user on his “OWN TIMELINE”. Is it fair or ethical to accuse people, just for posting this kind of “Artistic and Satirical images” which is needed to express criticism harshly.??
 
I don’t understand the situation and concern.

Is it fair to mark something as spam?
 
What I ask is, "Is it fair to mark a post as “Spam” by FB authorities when a person send it containing “both words and satirical images such as human buttocks” in critical of the recently ended nation wide Facebook access restriction imposed by Sri-Lankan government ?
(The FB restriction was imposed to stop communal tensions according to Sri Lankan government)
 
I think everybody should leave FB. It’s real agenda is to collect as much information about people as possible. It ruins privacy and empowers the government. It’s Big Brother.
 
Facebook is a good way to text your friends and share your fun times together. It’s also way less awkward to add someone on Facebook than ask them for their phone number.
 
Melodeonist said:
Facebook is a good way to text your friends and share your fun times together. It’s also way less awkward to add someone on Facebook than ask them for their phone number.
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It has its benefits but I have the telephone number of everybody who matters. I’m not interested in telling the world what I had for lunch.
 
I think calling these days is also relevant. I have some schoolmates has fb but rarely use it so calling them is the fastest option to contact. Also facebook requires internet and mobile data so people who dont have it or have low amount wont be using fb that much
 
Facebook allows people to have accounts. Facebook is owned by its shareholders and operated by the Board of Directors. They may choose to remove every post that contains the word “purple” or to disallow posting by anyone named “Sylvia”. It is not one’s “own timeline”, it is a bit of Facebook cyberspace that Facebook allows you to use. They make the rules.

If you do not agree with Facebook’s rules, start your own social media service.
 
It has always been true: Whatever you say or write can either help or hurt you depending on how it is understood by those who hear or read it. The timing of the consequence (good or bad) is in their hands, not yours.

Now with computers, Facebook for example, so much can be remembered and seen by so many people, the odds of what you post coming back to hurt you has increased. Got to be very careful about what you post.

As for FB standards - with so many people of different ages and cultures - FB should impose strict standards of acceptability of posts. Easy test: Would such statement or image be acceptable on a large banner in the local grocery store?
 
Facebook has rules against adult nudity. Their sandbox, so their rules.
 
People get irritated, understandably, with businesses like Facebook and YouTube censoring certain things. Sometimes conservators. But as some have already said, they have the perfect right to do it. It is their private property that they allow you to use. We may not like it but it’s called freedom.
 
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