With the exception of last year, when I was receiving threats in messenger from cowards with their panties in a wad about the Lee Monument painting, I can count on one hand how many times I've reported Facebook posts. For the record, many of those profiles who issued those threats are still active. You know...Facebook cares and shit.
Last year, I painted the above painting of Josephine Baker, taken from a famous photo of her that I pulled from a Josephine Baker fan page ON Facebook. There are multiple photos of Josephine Baker nude, and this was one that I painted; it's a famous photo that I was commissioned to reproduce. There is no violation of any community "standards" according to their own guidelines, and the photo of Ms. Baker - all of them, are still on several Josephine Baker fan pages. Below is a Facebook group of Josephine Baker and IDK boys and girls, but several of those pics look like a set of tittays in them.
It's an art piece, reproduced from an artistic photograph of Josephine Baker. I am an artist. I painted a figurative piece, and Facebook took it down.
Scroll back up and look at the image on the right of the kind of chunky woman. When that particular image popped in my feed, at first I didn't care. But after it passed through from several friends who shared it on their page, I decided to report it. Clearly the image was posted as a joke, and for the most part, I really could care less about nudity. I think people's offensive nature toward it is laughable at best. Facebook's response? I guess you can see for yourself.
Am I still salty about this hypocrisy? You bet your sweet ass I am. I guess I'm curious as to 1. why they pick and choose when they honor their obscure community standards, and 2. how stupid do they think we are if they think anyone believes a "specialist" aka bot, honestly reviewed the post. Is that discrimination? Maybe...but it's Facebook and I doubt it'll be a relevant social media platform in another 10 years. They've been on a steady decline since 2018. Nobody trusts them, it's no longer fun, there's so much discord it's not even funny, and the copyright violations from artists getting their work stolen with Facebook doing absolutely nothing to combat it is ridiculous. Like I said, it'll be irrelevant in 10 years, and people will have to find some other way to stalk and harass their ex. Nobody's interested in it anymore and have moved on with their lives...over to Instagram/filter-central, which is owned by Facebook. I imagine the community standards over there will slowly change as well at some point.
Below is an article that stresses it so much better than I can in my post. I would encourage you to read it. Facebook has no community standards. They're a data mining company, free to you and me. And as someone once said, 'if a product is free, you are the product.'
http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/featured/hypocrisy-facebook-police-enforce-community-standards/
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