Subj : Re: Facebook Politics
To : AARON THOMAS
From : Mike Powell
Date : Tue Apr 29 2025 09:09 am
> A couple things I want to point out about this Facebook suspension that I left
> out:
> 1) If I "violated their community standards" then why are they inviting me to
> share a video selfie with them? That will make them forgive me whatever
> horrible thing I did wrong?
> 2) What does a video selfie even prove? If I go to a store to buy beer, they
> aren't going to accept a video selfie as ID. So what gives?
> Their elitism (whether it's automated or not) disgusts me. And I didn't do
> anything wrong. I get on Facebook and I watch the reels that they show me and
> then I sign off, and today was no different than any other day.
Video selfies are for proving you are not a bot. Something you are doing
makes them think you are a bot.
Something I left out of my last message but just dawned on me... it could
also be your IP Address. I had some issues with mine because a web crawler
linked to a company that was trying to sell me their virus software
red-flagged my IPA because their crawler found compressed files here. As
"here" includes a BBS, that would make sense.
I blocked their crawlers and also removed access to the file areas for
guests, and the problem eventually cleared up. I didn't want to stop
guests from being able to download old DOS programs but, for the time
being, that is how it is.
