Facebook's Big Brother struck again

     A while back, I started a new Google blogspot named Late Life Reflections of a Tiny Kingdom Birmingham Country Heretic. To make getting there easy, I chose for its URL,

 reflectionsofheretic.blogspot.com. 

    I intended for the blog posts to be prompted by someone or something in Mountain Brook aka The Tiny Kingdom, Birmingham, or Alabama.

    When I tried to post on my Facebook timeline a link to the first blog post, the FB's AI said the post was restricted just for my viewing, because it violated Facebook's community standards. I tried several times with the same result, and a few days ago I was invited to file an appeal, which I did.

    In the appeal, I provided the name of the blogspot and its URL and why I had chosen the URL. I heard nothing back from Facebook, but when I posted the URL at Facebook earlier today, the post was allowed. I tried again, just to make sure, and the post was rejected as spam.

    I wondered if that was Facebook's view of me or of The Tiny Kingdom, Birmingham Country Club, etc.?

    Undaunted, I used my trusty WMD (laptop) to create this blogspot, and when I posted its URL at my Facebook timeline, it was accepted. 

    I wondered if Facebook's AI views anything with the word heretic in it as spam?

    Yesterday, my friend who does the tech work for The Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast, which has become a mega church, except it's not a church, because we don't pass the collection plate or let anyone run ads on it, sent me a link to a Politico article, which reported that YouTube reversed its policy and now will allow people to make fake stolen election claims. We found that both startling and amusing. Startling, because YouTube has lost its fucking mind. Amusing, because YouTube killed some of our podcast episodes, in which we lit into fake stolen election claimers. I figure lots of people in The Tiny Kingdom and the Birmingham Country Club are pleased with You Tube's policy shift. 

    About YouTube's new policy, a Tuscaloosa native white lady living in south Alabama, wrote to me on Facebook: "Disgusting, I strongly feel that allowing the extremists to continue spreading lies, hate and fear is being complicit in the results."

    To which Alabama lawyer me replied, "In criminal law, it is called aiding and abetting. In God's Court, YouTube tried and convicted itself. As do all people who still claim the 2021 election was stolen from Trump. What the stolen election claimers mean, but cleverly do not say, is, 'stolen by blacks and other minorities.'"

    I made this quixotic report the first blog post and posted its link on my Facebook timeline and it was accepted.

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