BS: Facebook killed me. Grrrr...

Subject: BS: Facebook killed me. Grrrr...
From: InOBU
Date: 23 Feb 26 - 02:26 PM

Well, after some 30 years, and never having been suspended, Facebook kicked me off, separating me from my several thousand friends, many of whom depend on me as a human rights advocate.

I would call this elder abuse. We tend to get isolated as we get older, and I now have gone from a minor celebrity in the NYC theater world, to an isolated township in Appalachia, because disaster profiteers stole my theater, tavern and museum... and my home.

For some ten years I shared my mother's final years, as she fought dementia, and all the comments of her friends many of whom are now dead... and now they are totally gone, because of this billionaire corporation that gives on no right of appeal to a human, or even tells their victims what they did to get kicked off.

Subject: RE: BS: Facebook killed me. Grrrr...
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Feb 26 - 04:55 PM

Did they give any warning or reason for this?

Do you still have use of the Museum of the American Gangster? (https://www.facebook.com/lorcan.otway.3)

Subject: RE: BS: Facebook killed me. Grrrr...
From: r.padgett
Date: 24 Feb 26 - 03:39 AM

I am locked out of fb had 1700fb friends 600 Friends of Barnsley folk song dance and music

A camera selfie to prove I am not a robot ~ cannot do it current and I have accepted I will not return to fb

Maybe they want me to pay WE don't follow "folk" commercially in UK and the US pay f0r all mentality we do no recognise

Some folk clubs with bank accounts have closed them £5 per month charge when we play and sing for nowt and enjoyment

Ray

Subject: RE: BS: Facebook killed me. Grrrr...
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 24 Feb 26 - 06:20 AM

If, (as I read it) this is about Facebook closing accounts, or imposing charges, on non-profit folk music groups (and similar). Maybe it should be re-titled and boosted 'above the line'.

Subject: RE: BS: Facebook killed me. Grrrr...
From: InOBU
Date: 24 Feb 26 - 08:42 AM

Dear Nigel Parsons:

I doubt it was about folk music. Rather they said, "Community Standards," with no details and also provide no way to offer a defense if you knew what community standards were violated, which I do not. Rather I have a Juris Doctor degree, and graduate credits in Constitutional law, and have testified on issues of the law and human rights. I believe the Trump administration is attempting to limit the ability of experts to comment on their criminality. However, FB is a perfect environment for censorship, as there is no way to challenge complaints, if you don't know what was said was the wrong doing.

By the way, my work in law was often at the core of my folk music which often paid for my advocacy. =-)

Dear Stilly River Sage:
No warning, no previous complaints. As to the Museum site, theater and bar sites, they are still up, but I can't access them of course, and COVID disaster profiteers killed those institutions anyway. Genie and I went from three businesses worth millions and a town house, to homelessness, which we are now attempting to climb up from. We now have a roof over our heads and are trying to make it as permanent as possible in a nation where the working class are simply food for the canabal rich.

Subject: RE: BS: Facebook killed me. Grrrr...
From: InOBU
Date: 24 Feb 26 - 08:44 AM

Correction... I got distracted... I meant to write graduate credits in Political Science and TA'd Constitutional law for several years.