Zuckerberg challenged to a duel, over censorship, of words

February 13, 2012

 

February 13, 2012

I recently made a post to my Facebook profile that was promptly un-posted, by Facebook.  Whether it was a human, a flagger, an algorithm, or a silver unicorn with an impaled tiger on its horn, bellowing more loudly than a blue whale, at the Sunrise, from a mountaintop, underwater, in space – it doesn’t matter.  All that matters is the post was deleted.

The only word I got for that is censorship.

It’s been real, Facebook, but I’m done for a while.  I won’t do the account de- and re-activation dance; I’ll just stop commenting.

Facebook, I give you consistently good content, and in return, you spam me with ads for Wal-Mart.  I don’t care if Jim Phillips “liked” Wal Mart.  I’ve never been inside one.  I’ll keep it that way.

Have you heard about Google+?  (Circle me!)  It’s this cool new social network where adults can interact, and talk about things other than Jersey shore.

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