Hate speech?

[Miss Chicken]

I have just received a notification from Facebook that I have been reported for hate speech because I said

“The only animals to become extinct in Tasmania since the arrival of white man is the thylacine, two subspecies of Emu (the Tasmanian and the King Island Emu) and the Lake Pedder Earthworm. None of these extinctions can be blamed on cats. They can all be blamed on the actions of humans”.

I have asked for a review of the complaint by Facebook. What do you think the result will be?

 

[Kemaiku]

Probably taking a shot at "white men" causing any incidence of problems through a colonialist action.

That reeeeally seems to tick them off for some reason.

 

[Kor]

It sounded like a perfectly matter-of-fact, academic type of statement to me. Why on Earth would somebody report that? Was this on your own "wall" (or whatever they're calling it now), or somebody else's?

Kor

 

[Miss Chicken]

It sounded like a perfectly matter-of-fact, academic type of statement to me. Why on Earth would somebody report that? Was this on your own "wall" (or whatever they're calling it now), or somebody else's?

Kor

It was in the comment section on an article that had been posted on Facebook about cats causing extinctions in Australia. I am not sure exactly what the original page It was posted on was and I think i made the comment about two week or so ago

 

[Guy Gardener]

A robot did it.

The really question is what did you do to piss off the robots?

 

[urbandefault]

Welcome to social media, where there's always someone waiting to be offended by even the most well-meaning comment.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I have been on Facebook for 9 years and the only times I have ever made a report is when 1) some made a page back in 2011 ‘What should be done with Jordan Rice’s body’. Jordan was an 13 year old Australian boy who drowned after he urged rescuers to save his younger brother before him. The page I reported was disgusting and I believe that Facebook received thousands of reports about it.

And 2) I recently reported a person who was impersonating a friend of mine on Messenger and trying to tell me that she had been awarded an $100000 government grant simply by posting on a Facebook page and that I should do so. It was so onbviously a scam and Facebook said they removed the page.

 

[Timewalker]

It was probably the words "white man" that did it, either because some people get offended beyond reason at any criticism of white people, or because there may be an automated process that found the words, and was programmed to treat them as hate speech.

Hopefully a reasonable human will see your post as being academic and factual, but I have little confidence in sites like that.

I've been censored on some sites merely for typing the name "Margaret Atwood".

 

[urbandefault]

I have been on Facebook for 9 years and the only times I have ever made a report is when 1) some made a page back in 2011 ‘What should be done with Jordan Rice’s body’. Jordan was an 13 year old Australian boy who drowned after he urged rescuers to save his younger brother before him. The page I reported was disgusting and I believe that Facebook received thousands of reports about it.

And 2) I recently reported a person who was impersonating a friend of mine on Messager and trying to tell me that she had been awarded an $100000 government grant simply by posting on a Facebook page and that I should do so. It was so onbviously a scam and Facebook said they removed the page.

Times, they are a-changing ...

I see offensive crap all the time, but I have a pretty thick skin so I just try to ignore it and move on with my life.

 

[StarCruiser]

The times, they are goin' stupid...

There was nothing even vaguely offensive, or even rude in that post.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

I've been censored on some sites merely for typing the name "Margaret Atwood".

Well, that's just to be expected.

 

[Butters]

I’m so glad I resisted the pull to twitter and Facebook. I am prone to the occasional drunken rant, and the viral nature of serial umbrage just isn’t worth the stress. I see nothing hateful in that comment, but important debate is being stifled everywhere in the name, and face, of tolerance.

I’ll indulge in heated debate about Klingon cranial ridges or yellow fronted trains, but any conversation online about anything vaguely meaningful just descends in to toxic polarisation, especially if it involves the B word, the T word, or the other T word.

It’s a sorry state of affairs, and I’ll leave it to everyone else. But it annoys me that our school uses Facebook as it’s main method of communication. I shouldn’t have to sign up to that virtual cesspit to know that music lessons are cancelled, but that’s a drunken rant for another time.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Facebook has reviewed the comment and have told me that they were sorry that they got it wrong and that the remark does follow their Community Standards.

 

[Yassa Justice]

Everyone's scolding Aunt is back and you cannnot hide from her. Oh, the good old days.

 

[Timewalker]

Well, that's just to be expected.

On CBC.ca the moderators are unaccountable. There's no way to challenge any of their decisions, and it's beyond obvious that they don't follow the submission guidelines.

 

[Stoo]

but important debate is being stifled everywhere in the name, and face, of tolerance.

for example?

 

[Butters]

for example?

If you read my post you’ll see that I alluded to three examples that inevitably deteriorate in to toxic polarisation and I chose not be specific to avoid that.

So why ask?

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Maybe someone hit the report button accidentially. I'm surprised that FB reacted so quickly and decently. They are not exactly known for their use of common sense.
I am, however, surprised that only so few species got extinct. Tasmania seems to have gotten away rather well in this respect if you compare it with other locations.

 

[cosmic mouse]

What do you think the result will be?

Your guess is better than mine since I am not on FB... whatever result you "endure" will likely just reinforce my decision to never join that site.

 

[Stoo]

If you read my post you’ll see that I alluded to three examples that inevitably deteriorate in to toxic polarisation and I chose not be specific to avoid that.

If you don't want to talk about stuff, better to not mention it all than making a coy little dig at tolerance.