Dude, Big Bro is After You

Facebook has finally begun to target me. I was a tad disappointed when online friends were being banned for whatever. I wondered if my comments and posts were so pasteurized and unremarkable that alarm bells at Facebook's "Community Standards" enclave stayed silent. I thought maybe I was being slighted in some way.

Well, I do not have to worry. They have found me and now I guess I have been assigned a higher designation on their "Look out, this guy's a troublemaker" watch list.

Twice today, I have had my knuckles smacked. Dire threats of further, more heinous actions are in my future should I continue rocking their boat.

The first no-no that raised their hackles was my sharing the mocked up "Time" magazine cover that connected Putin and Hitler in a very clever visual image. I knew Facebook tight asses were excluding this image, yet I still posted it. I did however in my lead in comments, declare the cover was a mock up, a fake and Time had nothing to do with it. Didn't matter. Facebook shut it down.

Then not 30 minutes ago, I received a more threatening message regarding a comment I made on a friend's page. The initial message had links to follow. They all warned me of more severe punishments if I continued to disparage any race group, even my own. I probably compounded the problem by including the word"damn" in with my comment.

I cannot really complain about Facebook's removal of anything I might post. Mark Zuckerberg owns it and can run it anyway he wants. That I consider him just another greedy oligarch with little ethical or moral reasons for anything he does is beside the point. 

Anyway, I feel better now that I have pushed back even the smidgen I did against the arbitrary and capricious rules of one of the tyrants of the Internet. 

Later ..................................

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I have recently begun to add a musical note to my posts. I almost allowed this one to exist without some nod to music lovers everywhere. I know my choices do not fall into the quiver of tunes we all carry, but you never know, you might find a new song you never heard and end up liking it. I already can say just looking for the tunes has done that for me.

Anyway, today's musical choice is "World's Dirtiest Song" by Bird and McDonald. It is appropriate that it is a live rendition at a Redd Fox show. It also makes me think of a song after the tight asses at Facebook's Community Standards inquisition board had their way with it. Enjoy.