FB Deleting Firearm Posts

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Keep in mind that Facebook has to deal with the "I'm offended" crowd and reacts accordingly. I've never had a post deleted and some of the hunting trophy pics are pretty extreme. But, my posts there are limited to those on my "family" list and you actually have to be family to get on that list.

After all, if I were to post a pic of my ten year old daughter with a freshly killed deer holding her father's 44 Mag rifle on public I would get a couple million comments on how could I allow that child to murder Bambi. On family I get hints for dinner invitations. You don't drink downstream from the herd.
 
Its their site.. Dont like the censorship from a publicly held company? Delete your account and move on.
 
http://www.wired.com/2016/06/filibuster-instagram-gun-dealers/

Apparently an instagram gun sellers hashtag was mentioned during the filibuster...and the Wired writers claim they saw, in real time, as searches for it went from thousands to nothing minutes later. Facebook (that's that thing where people throw up digital graffiti, right?) apparently owns instagram (which I guess is a rip-off of twitter, since it uses hashtags?) and has rolled out its gun-sales-censorship program to its other properties.

Their prerogative and all, yes, but still very unseemly and thuggish. I can't wait until we start hearing about people getting blackmailed by FB staffers for espousing incorrect views ("shut up or we'll delete years of your family photos, or make your profile public")

TCB
 
Yea, 1.65 billion people who can't live life for it's own sake and need constant entertainment and approval from someone else to validate their tawdry existence.....
-West
 
Rather than avoid it, how about every gun owner have a FB page and represent themselves as responsible citizens who own firearms? There's power in numbers.
 
Wow, this went south fast. I see folks have no problem bashing something they don't use and the folks who do.
 
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Instantaneous communication with friends and groups of friends, all over the world, what's not to like?

My feed is covered, slathered, chock full of gun-related posts this morning, as it is every day. Bah.
 
So simply reporting the post will remove it or does it flag it for FB to review and remove it?



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if your friend or someone who can see your page like a friends friend sees the post they can report it to FB for being offensive or what not.

facebooks the one who takes it down and you should get a message saying it was reported but they wont tell you who.

I will admit I have tried reporting stuff such as very, very sexual stuff that someone kept tagging me and others in thinking they are funny. facebook says we will review it and 99% of the time it comes back they wont take it down.

I cant see a basic gun post being taken down when the post that pissed me off the most was a guy camping and it said something about don't bend over for the bear and the bear was walking away with a giant penis and stuff dripping all over and the guys butthole was the size of a basketball. all this was clearly illustrated and yet facebook told me that it didn't violate their standards but I put someone on there with a chick in a bikini and it gets taken down just like your gun post did.

im pretty sure that a person reviews them so you might have gotten a anti gun facebook reviewer.
 
I'm too busy in the life God gave me to try to live in another one as well. While I see the use for FB for business contacts, as many businesses and organizations have given up URL sites for "friend" pages, I just cannot see myself socializing on a form of media that would add a "life" I simply could not keep up with.

On top of that, the life I do live is not as easily censored (yet.)
 
Instantaneous communication with friends and groups of friends, all over the world, what's not to like?
As of right now my family and I are connected as a cousin of ours is dying. We are able to "be there" with her via Facebook.
My feed is covered, slathered, chock full of gun-related posts this morning, as it is every day.
As is mine plus, the trapping groups, civil war groups, and family heritage groups that I belong to.
 
I've been posting as an anti-anti and pro-gun for a while on FB. There is so much ignorant vitriol from the L that it has led to heated arguments for me. I found myself standing on the edge of saying things I could never take back to people I care about so I went back and deleted my every post and every "like". I am debating closing the account completely but after thinking about it I want the opportunity to direct like minded people to THR.
 
OP, are you sure that you didn't accidentally delete or hide the post yourself? I have had a couple of posts removed by Facebook over the years, and each time they informed me why it was removed via a notification.
 
I'm a member of a few firearms groups and most of my FB friends are constantly posting pro 2A material.

I have not noticed anything blocked before, and I've seen some pretty extreme stuff.
 
I commented posting some statistics on crime rates in Australia a year after their gun ban on a friends post and the whole post was deleted last night. I believe they are deleting what posts they can find.
 
OP, are you sure that you didn't accidentally delete or hide the post yourself? I have had a couple of posts removed by Facebook over the years, and each time they informed me why it was removed via a notification.



Positive. I received an email notification for a comment on the post overnight and when I went to look at it it was all gone. The post was gone, the fact that I posted it was gone from my history, all in app notifications for likes and comments were gone ... it was as if it never existed. But they can't delete email notifications once they're sent, so that's how I figured out it was gone.

It's not really a big deal and I'm not too worried about it. It's their company and they can run it however they like whether I agree with the censorship or not, I was just curious if others had seen the same thing. I'm more concerned that I have a closet anti in my friends list! [emoji35]


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My brother had exactly the same article removed from his account by a 'friend' who didn't like it.

He reposted it later in the day.

The tolerant left has no end of intolerance.
 
Positive. I received an email notification for a comment on the post overnight and when I went to look at it it was all gone. The post was gone, the fact that I posted it was gone from my history, all in app notifications for likes and comments were gone ... it was as if it never existed. But they can't delete email notifications once they're sent, so that's how I figured out it was gone.

It's not really a big deal and I'm not too worried about it. It's their company and they can run it however they like whether I agree with the censorship or not, I was just curious if others had seen the same thing. I'm more concerned that I have a closet anti in my friends list! [emoji35]


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may not be your friend who reported it.

if your friend likes it than depending on their privacy settings their friends can see your posts. it will say jim smith liked bob jones post and tom young who reported it wont even be friends with bob jones.

I wouldn't put all the blame on anyone on YOUR friends. I see stupid crap all the time like john jones liked kim youngs post and ive got no clue who kim young is.
 
I've been posting as an anti-anti and pro-gun for a while on FB. There is so much ignorant vitriol from the L that it has led to heated arguments for me. I found myself standing on the edge of saying things I could never take back to people I care about so I went back and deleted my every post and every "like". I am debating closing the account completely but after thinking about it I want the opportunity to direct like minded people to THR.

That's pretty much where I got to in early 2013. I didn't delete everything, but I deleted some stuff, pushed back from the table and haven't done much with it since.
 
if your friend likes it than depending on their privacy settings their friends can see your posts. it will say jim smith liked bob jones post and tom young who reported it wont even be friends with bob jones.

Long story short, if anything is shared widely enough, it's sure to offend 'somebody,' and since Facebook doesn't bother to actually validate the complaints when stuff is reported before trashing it (zero-tolerance of hurt feelz again), there's a good chance it will be blocked. Then there's the whole concerted censorship thing that, let's face it, has probably been going on since the beginning.

It's cool if folks find it to be useful for whatever, but when it comes to delivering controversial messaging outside a close-knit circle of like-minded individuals, it is an inherently self-defeating platform. Granted, folks self-select ALL their media so much anymore, that reaching out to a group in opposition is nearly impossible, so maybe FB really is the best thing going (which is kind of sad; imagine the tavern-halls in 1775 throwing out anyone who said something that stirred up peoples' emotions :rolleyes:)

TCB
 
when it comes to delivering controversial messaging outside a close-knit circle of like-minded individuals
A person has the ability to determine who gets to see their posts. There are 3 options (1) public, in which anyone can see the posts (2) friends of friends where those privy to your post is reduced but can still be quite widespread or (3) friends only, this is the one that I personally use. No one but those in your specific group of friends can see your posts. It has worked out very well for me.
 
Don't really care what fb does. Don't use it, I am Not stupid enough to post all my personal pictures and comments and where and when I'm going to be for the next two weeks out in the open for others to see,. Don't believe that everything is private. It ain't..... This thread is proof that someone is watching.....
 
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