I received the news yesterday that the Facebook page for my book A Queer Thing Happened to America was deleted for allegedly violating Facebook’s “Community Standards.” But Facebook pages like “Hitler Fetus is our Jesus,” “Zombie Jesus,” and a host of other grossly offensive pages apparently do not violate these standards.
The Facebook page for my book had been online for about one year, containing reader comments, links to reviews, and relevant news links that some members would post. All in all, the page was quite benign and, being older, fairly inactive. As for the book itself, it...












yes,it's their site and their right to censor,but it's still "censorship",and hypocritical.
yes,it's their site and their right to censor,but it's still "censorship",and hypocritical."
There is nothing hypocritical concerning private control of content. Should churches be forced to allow gay activists speak in their facilities?
Here's an update: At 1:03 PM, today (June 14, 2002), my contact at Facebook sent me this message. "The page has been reinstated. It was an error on our part and taken down accidentally. Our team has reached out to the quality team and double checked our internal systems to help ensure this doesn't happen again.