I'm in Facebook Jail for a week. Look at my heinous crime!!!

[BamaRefugee]

I've been in FB jail many times, and always for something ridiculous, and NOT AGAINST COMMUNITY STANDARDS. Since I am a die hard Anti-trump poster, and in general an Anti-'Murican-Stupidity poster, I suspect it's some of my white wing "friends" who report me (for instance my picture of 2 young women making cupcakes got me a week in jail , no nudity, no sex, just used it for emphasis on a post), but each time FB told me someone had "reported" me for my crime.
There is no due process, no appeal, you just get booted off.
But the latest one takes the cake. Or should I say "cupcakes"? There's nothing from Facebook that says I was "reported" (East Germany 1970 much?) they just removed it themselves. LOOK AT THE PIC then LOOK AT THE CHARGES AGAINST ME! There's absolutely nothing in the charges that appears in my pic...especially SEXUAL CONTENT INVOLVING MINORS!!!!
WTF?
I copied the pic from a friend's page, and it is still up there, as it should be, no problem, just a funny pic of a funny moment at a family outing....

THE FACEBOOK STRUGGLE IS REAL!
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[jberryhill]

1. How old is that piece of cheese?

[miyazaki]

23. That hungry huh?

[jberryhill]

24. Just wondering if it was underage

[FakeNoose]

2. Somebody dropped a dime

By that I mean somebody complained about you, otherwise this would never be flagged.
God I hate Facebook and I'm so glad I never got on it.

[BamaRefugee]

5. as a veteran of FB jail

I can tell you that the other times, FB told me I had been "reported". But this time there's nothing like that, I think FB just has me on speed dial to the Jail hotline.

My friends have even made up several pics that they post when I'm in stir

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[FairDemocrat]

37. trying to get this thing to post..newbe

I have to start someplace

[iscooterliberally]

3. Maybe you got reported by the cheese police?

I'll bet that's american processed cheese food and not cheddar.

[BamaRefugee]

8. To the tune of "DREAM POLICE" by Cheese Trick, I mean CHEAP TRICK

The cheese police
They live inside of my head
The cheese police
They come to me in my bed
The cheese police
They're coming to arrest me
Oh no

[iscooterliberally]

9. I like it!

[BamaRefugee]

10. Cheesus Christ that's good! except what's CHEDDER?

[iscooterliberally]

11. It's a special kind of cheese made for those of us without auto correct? n/t

[BamaRefugee]

12. I love it. Can I have permission for my Jail Trustee to post it on my FB page???

[iscooterliberally]

13. Sure. I didn't come up with that. I saw it on the internet.

Just google 'sweet dreams are made of cheese' and check out the images. There might be a better one that you like for FB.

[Hekate]

4. Apparently someone objected to the rank misogyny of the visuals

Wonder how your cupcakes stacked up to that?

[BamaRefugee]

6. wow.....STRETCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH....

You must be great at yoga.
Facebook RUNS on misogyny, which this ISN'T, it would be just as funny if that was a male laying on the towel.
It's called "the folly of the human condition" and it's gender-less.

[Atman]

14. Posts of beautiful young women in tiny bikinis (surfing) or naked, they're okay.

They don't like pictures of ugly people or naked men. Yeah, I'd say misogyny is a theme at FB. I got a nastygram from them yesterday for such a post (but not jail time). A friend posted a vintage pic of "maidens" dancing in a field to celebrate Spring. I responded with a similar vintage pic (looked to be from the 40s-50s), except the dancers were nude, and one was male. Couldn't see anything, it was sepia-toned and grainy. But they removed it within 20 minutes and made me answer several questions about their "policy" before I could log back into my account.

[BamaRefugee]

17. oh yeh, they'll grill me like it was my Master's thesis before they let me back on

[CatWoman]

7. my granddaughter just got out of FB jail

after getting into arguments with racist Trump bots.

[sarah FAILIN]

15. Someone reported me for kittens in a drawer

I shared a tutorial from HGTV showing how to attach old drawers to your walls for you cats to climb in. That was considered spam.

[BamaRefugee]

18. usually they will send you a "captcha" thing first

to prove you're not spamming. i get them all the time because I post news of new model releases to various groups, and they always want me to prove I'm not spamming.

[BamaRefugee]

16. HAHAHAHAHA Facebook just praised me for reporting someone

And YES, I did report someone, for the first time ever.
As a scale model builder, a hobby I've been practicing for 60 years, unbelievably, I'm in lots of model-related Facebook groups. One of them being the TAMIYA group (it's a world famous kit producer in Japan).
A modeler had posted some pictures of an EXCELLENT build of a Tamiya motorcycle. In most of the pictures, you could see that he had a severe birth defect, only a thumb and 1 finger on each hand. Yet he was showing great skill at modeling and painting, and when some posters mentioned it, not in a bad way, but more like "you go pal", he had nothing but upbeat and positive responses about his condition.

BUT, there were a few folks who posted nasty, hurtful and gratuitously insulting comments about his hands. I felt that this was bullying, and in the extreme, so I reported their comments as such to Facebook...and...they did *absolutely nothing*, apparently you can fire away at physically challenged folks on Facebook with impunity...but if you post something cheesy....you're going down!

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[sarah FAILIN]

45. You can also call Michelle Obama a monkey

I reported someone calling her that and they did not one thing.

I told someone only horrible people would force a woman to carry a severely deformed baby to term with no hope for a life without pain and I got fb jail, lol.

[BoneyardDem]

19. ahhhhm, another tool for RW alert abusers. I've seen a microcosm at DI

and FB will go exactly the same way, on a much much greater scale

[OhZone]

20. That's really -

Venezuelan beaver cheese!

[left-of-center2012]

21. It's a 'cheesy' photo

[left-of-center2012]

22. "There is no due process, no appeal, you just get booted ..."

Hmm - where else does that happen?

[BamaRefugee]

30. FREE AL FRANKEN!!!!!

[oberliner]

25. What was the issue with the cupcake photo?

[Heartstrings]

26. I'd like to see that one!

Let us du'ers judge the cupcakes!

[BlueJac]

27. Fuck Facebook!

They are just money grubbers!

[Honeycombe8]

28. I know why it got banned.

But I can't say. It's too vulgar. I'm not saying it should have been banned & gotten you thrown in jail. I'm just sayin' that I see the objection to it. Which you may not even realize.

[BamaRefugee]

29. "Vulgar" isn't mentioned in FB *Community Standards*, if it was

Facebook would have to shut down.
More importantly, do you see what they charged me with?
OFFERS OF SEXUAL SERVICES. SOLICITATION OF SEXUAL MATERIAL. THREATS OR DEPICTIONS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE. THREATS TO SHARE INTIMATE IMAGES. ANY SEXUAL CONTENT INVOLVING MINORS.

THIS is why I'm mad. There are NONE of those thing in the image, and I SHOULD NOT BE ACCUSED OF ANY OF THE ACTIONS, ESPECIALLY INVOLVING MINORS! There's not a minor anywhere in the photo, but they add that to the list.

Their CHARGES are vulgar!

[Honeycombe8]

31. Maybe because it was a photo of a real person, with vulgar photoshopping on it?

I can see why they'd not allow that. For all they know, the woman did not approve that and would consider it harassment or bullying.

I know it's really not...but I can see why it would be grouped in that category.

[BamaRefugee]

32. Highly doubtful it was photoshopped.

Who would take the time to do something that mundane??? With absolutely NO target demographic.
I guarantee you it's a holiday or picnic snap. The lady accidentally sat down on a slice of Velveeta. Or is that Vulgarveeta?

i would think there's dozens of other objects a photoshopper would have placed there before they EVER thought of a slice of cheese.

[Honeycombe8]

33. Possibly...

____veeta. (too vulgar to type out the name)

No, I think that's photoshopped. Where it is placed, she would have felt it, lying on her side like that. But whether it is or not, it COULD be, so that's enough to fall into the category of harassment or bullying or the like. That it's cheese makes it even worse.

You can put a picture of yourSELF on FB with a piece of sausage on your lap (if you're male), and get away with it probably.

That's just my guess.

[BamaRefugee]

34. You must not go on Facebook much ;-)

They could just as easily call it RealPeopleWithStuffPhotoshoppedOnThemBook. That's about 40% of the content.
And if they thought I was bullying someone, why did they charge me with all the sex stuff PLUS minors?
Sorry, you're miles off.
And why is it still available to be seen by anyone on my friend's page? They didn't jail her.

Plus there are several beer cans surrounding her. I don't think she's feeling a thing.

[Honeycombe8]

35. I'm just telling you...that's what harassment is.

If you put a pic of a real person on the internet and make vulgar comments about it, and photoshop something on it, or anything not with permission that is considered vulgar, that is the essence of harassment.

Next time, use a drawn figure, and it won't be banned.

You seemed perplexed why the pic was banned. I'm telling you. You just don't want to believe it. But you better, or you'll be banned again.

(BTW...it's not up to the poster to decide whether the person in a harassing pic should or should not be offended by it. The harasser doesn't get to decide that. If that were the case, then nothing would be considered harassment, right? Not that you were intentionally doing that...but it could be that. It may have even been the woman in that pic who flagged it.)

So next time use a pic of yourself with a sausage stuck on the front of your swimsuit, and you'll be safe.

[GeorgeHayduke]

36. Im not sure

cheese stuck to an anonymous (and impossible to identify) persons butt can even possibly approximate bullying or harassment.

But I do dig the general sense of empathy for the woman who likely suffered from an unfortunate series of events. And the cheese, too.

[sarah FAILIN]

47. I disagree

I saw someone (rep) steal screenshot of someone's (a dem) pics and start making fun of them in a post. I reported it and fb did absolutely nothing even though you could clearly tell the lady was upset her personal pictures were being made fun of. This was full face shots of the woman and it was terrible for her.
I religiously guard my pics because of how brutal that was.

[BamaRefugee]

52. When I go on the road with my band, people in the crowd take hundreds of pics

and I have absolutely no control over them, or what they do with them later. It's a different world now. In the 70s, the professional photographer that you paid was the only one allowed to take pics, and you got to carefully choose what the public got to see.

It's a free for all now, I feel for the lady you write about but getting your feelings hurt on FB is pretty much a 24/7/365 probability.

[sarah FAILIN]

61. You missed the point

The bully went on her open fb page and stole her pics then made fun of her to her face over and over and said horrible things about her features. The b ully had stolen several of her pics off her page. Fb did not care a bit even though their TOS say they won't allow that so I disagree that making fun of a woman nobody knew or could identify for having cheese stuck to her butt was the problem.

[GulfCoast66]

38. Exhibit number 1,000,000,000 that makes me happy I never got on Facebook

[nolabels]

48. I will second that motion

Always sounded like a con job to me and it seems to be playing that way now

[grantcart]

59. +1

[FairDemocrat]

39. New for me here...I will behave

I locked up the FIX (FOX) Geraldo video over Comey today... the replies were to much for me with the copy and paste automatic full front page Trolling....So I covered the each of the inside replies of the right winged trolls with a Dr. Phil link 50 times each and pinned them to the front page as top commenters. So the honest non Fake News replies could get the thumbs up and stay up on the page...It locked the page solid and the republicans couldn't post any of their DEAP STATE replies...Over Comey's book....On YOU TUBE...I am Stephen Vest

[cwydro]

40. What a weird thing to post on FB.

No idea why they banned you, but still, that’s just an icky photo. Middle school type humor imo.

[edhopper]

41. It looks like you posted a pic

of a woman with a piece of cheese shoved up her ass.

I am not saying you should be jailed for it, but I understand their reaction if someone complained.

[BamaRefugee]

43. it's a plastic wrapped SLICE of crummy fake cheese, you are projecting your own fantasy

[edhopper]

44. well yes

that would be enjoyable.
But I was just trying to figure out what FB found offensive, not saying you deserved it.

[BamaRefugee]

63. I'm trying to figure out how they go from a slice of cheese to me soliciting sex and making threats

and getting minors involved? WTactualF?

[edhopper]

67. for the record

I don't think you deserved it.

[Captain Stern]

42. That's totally unfair.

No due process? No appeal? You just get booted off?!?

You should definitely write them a harshly worded e-mail in which you demand to have your facebook membership fees returned to you. Accept no compromises! Let them know you mean business! Tell them that unless they return every non-existant red penny that you've given them over the years, that you will never, ever, ever, ever, use their free site again.

[BamaRefugee]

49. thank God I pay with AmEx, they'll fight for me

[Raine1967]

46. This has nothing to do with your politics. Fat shaming is pretty awful.

you think it's funny, I don't.

This is offensive IMO.

[BamaRefugee]

50. It's about A SLICE OF CHEESE, not fat, not skinny, not male, not female, just a random human moment.

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if anything it's drunk shaming, she's surrounded by beer cans. Having been married to an alcoholic for 15 years, I see things through a different lens.

[kcr]

62. So why is the cheese having a bad day, haw haw?

It's not stuck to the bottom of a liquor bottle. Maybe you need to upgrade your lense.

[BamaRefugee]

64. Can a liquor bottle get drunk? Maybe you need to upgrade your context ;-)

[kcr]

65. You mentioned the liquor bottles to explain why your joke wasn't fat shaming :-/

[BamaRefugee]

66. maybe it's stuck to the bottom

of a bottle licker?

Sorry if I misunderstood your post.

[Tipperary]

60. I know. That is an ugly picture. Quite obvious it is not about a slice of cheese.

[Cary]

51. They recently did the same to me but wouldn't even tell me what they deleted

[BamaRefugee]

53. Couldn't you tell what was missing from the pictures you had posted?

Or was it just a comment, it's impossible to track back on those

[Cary]

54. It was something I shared

No I have no idea what it was.

[BamaRefugee]

55. Weird. And I shared my pic from a friend's page, and it's still there, no problem!

[BamaRefugee]

56. Awwwww. Facebook is softening their stance toward me,they think I'm just "unusual"

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[Historic NY]

57. Wondering if it will melt....

[blake2012]

58. I signed my Facebook Emancipation Proclamation a month ago.

Almost a month ago, Cambridge Analytics stuff sent me over the edge.
I feel much happier since then.