Facebook's Obscene Picture Policies

Dirk Caber Entertainer

Recently, I was made aware of a post made by Dirk Caber that talks about the unfair treatment of LGBTQ people by Facebook. (here is a link to the article http://dirkcaber.com/2015/01/05/enough-is-enough/ ) He, like many others, has talked about having pictures expressing their love and affection for their same sex partner, removed from Facebook. I can't tell you how horrible it feels to have someone consider your personal pictures deemed lude or in violation of the community agreement.      

What it all boils down to is this bullshit idea that each individual feels that he or she is the moral majority leader for the whole world. Instead of not looking at the content or just unfriending / blocking the page, some people feel that it's their duty to have all content that they don't like removed, so that nobody else can see it. To me that's like modern day book burning.   

But it doesn't stop at social media... people have had shows banned from tv and songs pulled from the radio because they disagreed with them... But hate, in any form, gets a free pass in the name of freedom of speech and expression.   

Here is my suggestion to Facebook. If a person feels that any of my pictures are offensive to them - as soon as they launch their complaint, the person should be automatically blocked from seeing anything else on my page. Come on! There has to be some personal accountability somewhere!  

In closing....  To me, love in all of its many incarnations should be more than just tolerated... It should be perpetuated. O