Faceban

I got restricted on Facebook.  I haven't been allowed to post anything, comment on anything, contact anyone through Facebook Messenger, or even click "Like" on anything since Thursday.

Because, apparently, this picture of a little boy urinating on a Trump lawn sign is . . .

. . . frowned upon by the Facebook police!

Because, I am told, this is child sexual exploitation, though I don't know how showing a little boy's bare bottom while he's relieving himself on a Trump lawn sign is exploitative when you can't see anything worse than, well, a bare bottom.  

I got this from a friend's Instagram feed.  Guess who owns Instagram.

Meta!

Since the same people who use Instagram also use Facebook and vice versa, what the hell is Meta doing by penalizing me for posting this to Facebook?

Aah, computer bots are policing Facebook and Instagram now, not real humans.  What's really galling is that I clicked on a button for a form with which to fill out on Facebook to challenge the removal of the photo and the resulting suspension, but I got a message saying the feature doesn't work and that someone is working to get it fixed.

Yeah, right. 

The real reason  for this photo being taken down, I suspect, is because the real crime is demonizing Trump, whose hateful rhetoric has been very good business for Meta.  Meta has just lifted its ban on content promoting the fallacy that President Biden stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump, and so has YouTube.  That is why I made this video. 

I plan to post this video to my Facebook timeline as soon as my restrictions have been lifted, which should be either tomorrow or Monday.

In the meantime, I would encourage Trump's opponents to take advantage of the right to free speech and speak out against him as much as possible.  After January 19, 2025, we may never get the chance again.

Savage Ban

I've always wanted to go to the United Kingdom. I've always hoped to see the White Cliffs of Dover, travel through the Midlands countryside, eat fish and chips, enjoy the sun and sand at Paignton, explore London and Glasgow, and yes, make a pilgrimage to Abbey Road Studios, birthplace of rock albums that changed my life. The bad news is I can't do that, because I lack the time and the money to do so.

The good news is, that jerk Michael Savage can't go either.

Savage, a right-wing talk radio host known for incendiary propaganda, has been banned from the U.K. for his hateful rhetoric. Among others banned from Britain are Samir Kantar, a Lebanese man once jailed for murdering four Israelis, and Russian gangsters Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky, who were sentenced to ten years in a Russian jail for their role in racially motivated killings of 19 people.

Savage complained about the band imposed on him by the Office of the Home Secretary in London, and says he's considering legal action. Of Home Secretary Jaqcui Smith's action, he said, "She's linking me with mass murderers who are in prison for killing Jewish children on buses? For my speech? The country where the Magna Carta was created?"

Gee, why could Savage possibly be banned? Maybe because it's because he called the Koran a "book of hate" and dismissed autistic children with autism by saying in "a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out" in most cases.

Flying on British Airways across the Atlantic suddenly seems less scary knowing I wouldn't have to sit next to Savage on the plane.