Posted on 02/13/2021 9:28:59 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Facebook recently removed advertisements for a book critiquing a radical form of feminism, claiming the book didn’t comply with its policies.
A message to Guadalupe Gifts, a Catholic gift store, showed that the company rejected the ads for “The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing The Culture From Toxic Femininity,” while citing a set of rules for what products can be sold or advertised on Facebook.
In an email, Facebook told the gift store that “listings may not promote the buying, selling, or use of adult products,” the College Fix reported.
The store “tried to post the book on both those platforms and got the same message—that the book violated community policy,” author Carrie Gress told the website, referring to Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram.
Facebook’s rules say listings cannot promote adult products.
Facebook didn’t respond to a request for comment. The company also hasn’t responded to requests from other outlets about the matter.
“Facebook eventually did get back to the book sellers and said there was a ‘glitch’ in the algorithm,” Gress said on Breitbart News Saturday. “If it were an isolated case, I wouldn’t give it all a second thought, but there seem to be a lot of glitches in algorithms, with it affecting a lot more Catholic products than just mine.”
In a blog post on Guadalupe Gifts’s website, owner Juan-Carlos Valerio is cited as saying it’s uncertain whether the censorship of the posts was intentional.
“Though Valerio noted that it was strange that Facebook and Instagram blocked Gress’s book three months after it had already been posted, he didn’t think there was enough evidence that the book had been specifically targeted, and was going through the proper channels to get it reinstated,” the post stated.
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NaziCommie book burners...
Freedom of speech-—Facebook wouldn’t want to allow that./S
Slowly, they are expanding the scope of the books and thoughts they are suppressing. Before long the control will be complete. Amazon does it. Google does it. All the broadcast media do it.
In the soviet union you went to the gulag, or were disappeared. In the once-great USA, you are fired and prevented from getting a job, and your heretical thoughts are made to disappear. Takes longer, but the end result is the same.
Twitter suffered a $1.3b loss versus about the same in profit last year. Let’s see if we can do that to FB and Google as payment for suppressing Freedom of Speech.
Sounds like the work of a publisher, and not a content provider.
BUMP!
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