To add a little context, the feminist (who is an acquaintance of mine) has had her account blocked four times now, for posting screenshots of hateful or misogynistic online speech, including direct threats of violence, to her Facebook wall.
Facebook does not seem to care that all the content she posted was taken from public forums, usually the embedded Facebook comments on one of Iceland's largest online publications. This has led to the ironic situation that the people using Facebook to post threatening or violent messages are untouched, but the person drawing attention to their behavior is punished.
It seems Facebook's style of community policing has the unintended consequence of giving "the masses" a powerful tool to silence and punish people with unpopular opinions.
One wonders whether this is largely a function of the language barrier (the Facebook review staff probably don't read Icelandic), or whether this is a larger systemic problem?
Facebook does not seem to care that all the content she posted was taken from public forums, usually the embedded Facebook comments on one of Iceland's largest online publications. This has led to the ironic situation that the people using Facebook to post threatening or violent messages are untouched, but the person drawing attention to their behavior is punished.
It seems Facebook's style of community policing has the unintended consequence of giving "the masses" a powerful tool to silence and punish people with unpopular opinions.
One wonders whether this is largely a function of the language barrier (the Facebook review staff probably don't read Icelandic), or whether this is a larger systemic problem?