Provoking Facebook censorship through professional trolling

Excerpted from Jeremy Ryan:

“Post and spam a person’s Facebook articles and posts for a profit. Some get paid up to $20 an hour. There is one individual who has at least fifty fake profiles that he uses to spam Wisconsin activists. It’s not hard to find these services. A quick google search pulled this up real quick. But they seem to have taken an even lower form of low. Trolls are now having activists removed by filing fake Facebook complaints. That is right, people are suppressing information in Wisconsin by actively reporting people they deem to be a threat on Facebook. I myself have been reported and banned for one to three days for simply posting “Good job” or “The majority of Wisconsin doesn’t like Scott Walker.” People have been reported on pages for saying nothing more than my name and have been reprimanded by Facebook. The strategy is simple and Facebook lets it continue. If someone reports something as abusive to Facebook they don’t actually look at it, they just remove it and warn the person who posted it. If you get enough you are not able to dispute them at all, and with no admin contacts and no one at Facebook actually looking at the posts reported as “abusive,” the person gets blocked.

They have not succeeded to take my account down yet, but likely one day they will. They did, however, succeed in taking down Stephanie Leigh, partially at least. She has been banned and unable to post since October 12th. Her comments were not in violation of the terms and conditions of Facebook. But enough reports said they were and there was no means to dispute it so her account was locked. She can now “like” comments and send private messages but that’s it. She cannot communicate with the list of family and friends she has been accumulating for years. All she did was run the page “I will get more “Likes” than Scott Walker“. This was a Facebook page and after the usual rounds of threats and harassment we all get they filed a bunch of fraudulent reports and Facebook banned her. Suppression of Information is a new low. Anyone with money can now buy the suppression of the message delivered by anyone they choose. We cannot stand for this and we must call for Facebook to change these policies and allow an appeal process or someone to look before banning someone. Otherwise we will set up a situation in which social media goes to the highest bidder as well.”

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