Facebook Recently Became Very Aggressive Blocking Member Postings

Posted: 10/7/2019  Amended/revised: 10/8/2019

Update Of 10/8/2019

Facebook just (10/8/2019, 10:40 AM MST) blocked me from publicly posting this Front Page magazine article on my Facebook page: Why the Syria Pullout Makes Sense America's president stands firm for America’s national interest. As usual my comment was simply “Recommendable” as I think this article captures fairly well President Trump’s latest decision to pull out of Syria.

Here are two screenshots documenting the censorship by capturing my Facebook page support inbox (the second screen shot below is an enlargement of the tiny image used by Facebook:

I thought, I had figured it out why Facebook was possibly blocking my posts. My habit is to use my Google Blogger account to publicly share YouTube videos on Facebook using Google Chrome browser. However, I tried to copy the YouTube video URL to a Chrome browser instance on my notebook, where I was logged in with my Google Gmail account and again Facebook would block these postings instantly! 

Following two posts were also blocked by Facebook in the same manner as described below in the Original Post:

1. All I Want to Do Is Make Cookies (Prager University video, released 10/7/19). My Facebook posting comment: “Highly recommended! The insanity of excessive government regulations!”
2. Sekulow responds to second Trump whistleblower (Fox news with Sean Hannity, 10/7/2019). My Facebook posting comment: “Sekulow responds to second Trump whistleblower”

All the incidences of censorship by Facebook reported in this blog happened within less than 2 hours between 10:30 PM on 10/7/2019 and 12:15 AM 10/8/2019 MSTD.  I have requested Facebook to review all of them!

Original Post

I have just become fully aware that Facebook has become much more aggressive in  its policies how it blocks postings in the past several weeks or so! I can trace it back to October 2, 2019. It is absolutely shameful and outrageous! 

Moreover, Facebook does it in a very stealthy way. They do not clearly tell the Facebook account holder what posting was actually blocked. You have to drill in and request a review before you find out which one of your postings was blocked! Plus, every time it happened (two times now) Facebook forces me to change the password for my account!

Today, I watched a biographic video about Pat Garett on the Biographics channel of Simon Whistler. As usual, I shared this video as public on my Facebook page with the usual comment “Very recommendable”. This triggered Facebook to block this posting as “Your post goes against our Community Standards so only you can see it.” (Facebook email language) and “This post goes against our Community Standards on spam” (Facebook account Support Inbox language).

Here is are the Facebook notifications:

Here is the email I received from Facebook:

Not only that, Facebook also blocked today a video from the British Museum that I watched and also publicly posted on my Facebook page with the same incendiary language as above. My comment for this post was “Recommendable! River dolphins transform into humans and go to a bar at night :-)”. The 7 minutes long video titled “Shape shifting Amazonian dolphins I Curator's Corner S5 Ep8”

It has been my routine for many months to watch Simon Whistler videos on the YouTube Biographics and Visual Politics channels. Many times, I recommend his videos in the same way as today by posting them on my Facebook page. In the past, I never had any issues with Facebook blocking such posts of mine.

As I wrote this post, apparently Facebook has already reviewed the two blocked videos and lifted the block as I can see it now in my Facebook Activity Log. And both videos seem now posted as public.

I am deeply shocked by such ridiculous policies enforced by Facebook! This is truly insane by Facebook!

I have been a very active member of Facebook since 2008! Since June 2018, I even manage a separate kind of social news media Facebook page. So Facebook know exactly who I am and what I post for a long time and I am a very consistent and systematic person!