As my readers know I also write a gardening blog called the nightgown gardener. I started that blog because my readers asked me to have a blog just about gardening. I don’t make money off of it, I don’t get special favors because of it, it’s just writing about gardening. Like this blog I pay for it to be ad free.
As my readers know gardening is a passion of mine. So I share my knowledge and my tips and my sources and my resources and photos of my actual garden on this blog.
The times we live in gardening is a happy thing. It brings you closer to the earth, it brings you peace of mind , it lets you express yourself artistically and even grow your own food. and I have been sharing my garden rating since I started doing it both on this blog and my gardening specific blog.
Writing about gardening is not controversial it’s nice. And we need more nice in this world. So why on earth is Facebook censoring me? I don’t have the answer to that question but they are censoring me. For some unknown reason, starting yesterday, they started REMOVING and BANNING anything I had written about GARDENING.
Meanwhile Facebook allows cybercrimes to occur daily like cyber stalking and cyber harassment and fake news and heck even porn to pollute it. They allow racist propaganda and all sorts of other nasty things that you can think of yet they ban happy things like writing about gardening?
It makes NO sense. I am not a monetized blogger I don’t even promote my blog post with Facebook ads. I just share what I’m doing in my garden on my garden blog . And somehow that is a bad thing?
Facebook and their algorithms are all sorts of screwed up. And there is no one you can contact or talk to about this. Well I’m not taking this line down.
Their algorithms are actually in fact practicing censorship, then they need a serious makeover.
Mark Zuckerberg I know you won’t be reading my blog because you don’t care about anything other than all the money you are making, but you should you say you wanna make the world a better place and gardening is one of those things that accomplishes that.
Facebook is wrong here. They had this issue in March.
Yes, in Facebook’s fakakta wisdom, sharing about gardening is bad. Maybe they should fix their algorithms and “weed” out the bugs.
#EpicFail #FacebookHatesGardening #FacebookHatesGardeners
Below are posts Facebook removed. Please give them a read and I’m curious if you all think they go against “community standards“?
welcome to my homeless plant encampment
Of course part of me wonders if Facebook has a problem with WordPress all of a sudden? At the end of the day I don’t really care why it’s happening I only know it shouldn’t be happening. Gardening and cooking are happy things in a world that is filled with COVID-19 nastiness right now.
Here’s hoping Facebook gets their act together.
That’s terrible!
Well, for years those people with conservative viewpoints have been censored and shadow banned by Facebook. For years many of us have protested against this. Those of us with a even a shred of intellect have been making the argument that, “if they can do it to me then they can do it to you”.
This argument fell largely on deaf ears since, the ones being silenced were people who’s viewpoints were not consistent with others that were arbitrarily making the rules.
This begs the question, just who are the arbiters of, ” fake news”.
Facebook corporate monkeys, I think not.
Censorship in any form is just wrong. The founding fathers wrote the first amendment for just this purpose.
No one is saying don’t have first amendment rights and I don’t need knee jerk conservatism here. My issue is they are putting other people at risk with the virus. Period.