So Facebook decided to disable my account while I slept.
They didn’t bother telling me what I did “wrong” in their view, which is in direct defiance to their “Oversight Board” (see the notes on Case Decision 2020-005-FB-UA at https://oversightboard.com/decision/FB-2RDRCAVQ/ where they specifically say that Facebook must tell you what rules you violated). Of course, the “Oversight Board” is another joke for another day, and completely meaningless to this (or any other) conversation.
They do allow you to request a “Review”, which I did. A review of what? I can’t say for sure, because Facebook doesn’t bother telling you anything about all that. It’s all so “mysterious”.
But they do provide a handy-dandy link to “Community Standards” here. So I decided to follow the breadcrumbs, and clicked their link. The “Community Standard” that popped up was titled “Regulated Goods”:
This particular “Community Standard” covers selling guns, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, endangered species, livestock, human blood, weight-loss products, and historical artifacts. After a quick check, I suddenly realized I have never tried to sell guns, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, endangered species, livestock, human blood, weight-loss products, or historical artifacts on Facebook. So either they have a really strange definition of “selling endangered species” that includes “not selling any species ever”, or their programmers and sweatshop censors are so much shittier than I already knew they were.
