The rusty bottle opener of truth

Like every single 'Facebook Censored Me' story everywhere, this article seems to think that FB was specifically persecuting their point of view. That's just not the case, as far as I can tell.

FB blocks anything which rocks the boat, in any direction, pretty much without reference to its actual content - if enough people complain about it, the auto-blocking systems (and/or underpaid blocking-review workers) move in and disable your ability to post it (or your ability to post or have an account, if you run into it too much).

So everyone thinks FB is censoring them. And in some ways it is - but in a pretty egalitarian way - it just shuts down anything which starts causing any kind of controversy, regardless of the political orientation of the content...

Which _does_, I guess, serve the purposes of their shadowy corporate puppetmasters - who don't want their adverts associated with any controversial content of any kind - but not really in the way the article was trying to imply.

It's one of those 'no-one cares about you' perspective problems, where people think they are more special and people are paying more attention to them when they are. People care very deeply about their own stuff and tend to only see / try to post things they agree with, so they notice when things they agree with get hit with the censor-stick, but they don't get to see all the times the stuff from 'the other side' (whatever that is in each particular situation) gets silenced too - so they think their _subject matter_ is being censored, whilst FB doesn't give a monkeys about their subject matter, they just go on some metrics of 'how many people have reported this' (maliciously or not) etc.