Facebook Is Deleting Homosexuals
Recent curious deletions from Facebook: Author Frank Anthony Polito’s fan page for his critically acclaimed book Band Fags! (“You created a Page that has violated our Terms of Use”), and photographer and NOH8 Campaign co-creator Adam Bouska’s personal profile page, which went offline for more than a day, but has since been reinstated. Decent explanations for either disappearance haven’t been provided.
Facebook makes mistakes; it disables accounts all the time.
See … http://getsatisfaction.com/facebook/topics/facebook_account_disabled
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One of the founders of Facebook is gay so I doubt anything bad was intended.
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The Facebook page for a friend of mine disappeared for a few hours this morning. It was weird — he was no longer tagged in the photos of him that I posted, and while his boyfriend’s page said he was in a relationship, but didn’t say with whom. It was as if I was blocked. And then all of a sudden it was back.
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Regardless of the explanation, the point of this Queerty post, and the point I want to know more about, is that Facebook did not offer a decent (or any?) explanation.
And considering Facebook’s resources… (Facebook is not a public American middle school or anything American thing relying on public finances, people…)
So yeah.
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I have to go with the blacklisted keyword sweep theory…they get pretty messed up sometimes.
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queerty, enough with the dramatics. that goes for you too, adam bouska, with your nonsensical duct tape photo campaign
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No. 7 · lesbian kissing fan wrote, “I have to go with the blacklisted keyword sweep theory…they get pretty messed up sometimes.”
There was a funny one about some homophobic web rag that would print some AP articles. They had a policy of changing the word “gay” to “homosexual”. Then when a story about an athlete whose last name was “Gay” showed up, the inevitable happened.
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Facebook never deletes anyone completely. There is profit in keeping information in archival storage for later use. They used to call it blackmail, now it’s called social networking.
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You are complaining about “Band fags” being kicked off?
Are you kidding me?
What about the band of lesbians called “splooge”?
Or another band called the burning nig*ers? is that offensive?
Come on……Nobody kicked them off for being gay…..constance mcmillen is still online…..look at your name moron.
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shouldn’t we be happy that facebook deletes people that refer to gay men as “fags”?
Gay or not, the word is inappropriate.
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this has been happening alot. its nothing to worry over. and all profiles come back.
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The Band Fags one was probably deleted due to the word Fag. Probably just a computer sweep for blacklisted words.