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There is no point in "reviewing" all the community standards because the preceding text is about as detailed as it gets.
Shoot breastfeeding and mastectomy pictures, for example. Facebook has stated over and over again these photographs are enabled, but they continue to get removed. Once in click happens to someone with enough clout in order for it to make the news. When that happens, a reporter reaches out to Facebook and FB apologizes, saying that they occasionally make an error. HAHAHA that would be so funny, Facebook, if it didn't really happen ALL THE TIME. It is simply that most of us plebeians do not have the wherewithal to get in the news, or reach an actual person at Facebook.
Which brings us to another issue. There's essentially no appeal process. The appeal option (if you're able to find it) appears to be there merely for show. It is near impossible to reach any real employee.
Anyhow I 've found that while complaining about getting banned for the umpteenth time, someone eventually asks: If you despise Facebook so much, why keep using it? They can be a private company to allow them to make their own rules and implement them as they want.
If only it were that straightforward. Facebook is a massive conglomerate, proclaiming 1.23 billion active monthly users. Although there was a noteworthy decline in popularity among teenage users, it truly is still, sadly, the spot to be in relation to social media. It plays an integral role in people's everyday social lives. It is where they find community and connect with so many friends and family. Telling someone to simply quit FB is basically like telling them to stop trying e-mail. A Pew research study found that 71% of online adults use Facebook at the time of September 2013.
For companies, organizations, and the like, nowhere else can people interact with and reach such a large following online as they can on FB. There is absolutely no option (yet) rather like it. To tell a business to just quit and leave might be requesting them to only cut ties with 70,000 enthusiasts, clients and prospective customers. Can you think of any major business that's not on Facebook? For FKK, we use Facebook frequently for getting our content out there, networking, promoting events and doing grassroots outreach for naturism. For me it is a chief point of contact; plenty of individuals reach out to me through the network every single day!
Facebook's part in people's lives, its ubiquity and gigantic user base bestow upon it a greater social responsibility. Its far-reaching influence means that it does matter what they allow and what they censor.
With their censorship practices, they market our culture's glorification and recognition of violence, while condemning art, self expression and healthy portrayals of the human body. They also perpetuate many double standards, like that of male and female nuditythe male chest is good while a female nipple is unacceptable. Naturally female breasts continue to be throughout the network in the context of soft-core porn (just with that little bit of areolae covered up).
Speaking of porn on Facebook, it's everywhere. I know since I see it every day (while looking through others' profiles). http://dsgw.info/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=fkk.buzz/page/29/ is another indication that Facebook's censorship system only does not work! I feel it's time about them to cease faking it does!
Facebook's present mission statement will be to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Individuals use Facebook to remain connected with friends and family, to find what is happening in the world, and to share and express what matters to them. Facebook prides itself on being this open collective communication space, and many of us see it that way. And yetthey are still a corporation which makes choices every day with regards to what content we can and can't engage with. Rather than favoring free speech, they determined to play censor. It is really challenging for a website of the magnitude to use such censorship consistently. Even when you write up a list of silly guidelines.
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