OK so I got this notice recently saying that Facebook had removed a post from 2018. Yes, 2018. And then you can pull up like a screenshot of what they removed. What they removed was an article I had posted from 2018 about the naked bike ride in Philadelphia that I thought was funny. Think about it. I don’t know about the rest of you, but would you want to go around on your bicycle naked? I think it would hurt certain private parts.
But obviously some people enjoy a naked bike ride much the way they enjoy nude beaches. Which is something I did go to once briefly years ago (as in my early 20s) , and I didn’t understand that either. All I kept thinking is what if you get certain body parts sunburned, wow would that hurt.
And I’m not actually passing judgment on those who enjoy those things, I simply don’t understand them. But the article just tickled my funny bone and I shared it.
By Julia Hatmaker | jhatmaker@pennlive.com
Published: Sep. 09, 2018, 12:13 a.m.
With loud cheers, thousands of nude and semi-naked cyclists took to the streets of Philadelphia on Sept. 8, 2018.
The occasion was the Philly Naked Bike Ride, a ten-year-old annual tradition in the City of Brotherly Love. The event has cyclists travel nearly ten miles from Fairmount Park into Center City. This year (like many in the past), the route included the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rittenhouse Square, City Hall, Broad Street, South Street, Independence Hall and Logan Square.
And here’s a more local article from 2023 :
It’s a thing. It’s not my thing, it might not be your thing, but if they’re allowing it to go on on the streets of a major metropolitan city without incident, why is Facebook removing articles about it? Let alone removing an article in 2024 that was posted in 2018? I didn’t even remember I had posted it. It was that long ago.
Facebook has these random algorithms and I guess they look for keywords much the way the email review platforms do for compliance officers reviewing emails in financial institutions and other kinds of businesses. Of course that’s why your average compliance officer will tell you that is why they have to go through almost every email because the programming doesn’t necessarily get it right.
I remember many years ago when I was a bridesmaid in a wedding party. One day an email went out from the bride to be’s mother about where we were supposed to get pantyhose or spanx or something. Literally, it was one of those mama bridezilla occasions where you know you had to wear certain types of bras along with spanx underneath the baby butt pink Vera Wang bridesmaid’s gown. Quite literally it wasn’t the bride who was the problem, it was the momzilla. ( Sorry I don’t know what the correct phrases to describe when it’s the mother of the bride who is the issue not the actual bride.)
Anyway, this woman would send out emails to every email. She knew you had even if you weren’t supposed to get personal email if avoidable to corporate emails. So literally you would get an email and it was like the edict on high. And it was just as bad this time as the email which had proceeded it, which was telling us about trying a liquid diet for five days before her daughter’s wedding. So whatever the word was in this particular email, it got flagged by the compliance officer’s software in the brokerage branch I worked in, and I remember getting pulled into the office, and I wasn’t actually in trouble. The compliance officer was a very mellow practical dude, and he said “I just want you to see how ridiculous the word programming is for email review” and that was when I first learned about like the fact that these programs had like keywords that they would search out, and those words weren’t set by each individual compliance officer in a bigger corporation, they were set by corporate.
I think this is where Facebook kind of is or Meta or whatever the hell they call themselves these days and for what they do allow on Facebook versus even sharing a legitimate media outlet went against community standards. They allow multitude of conspiracy theories and all sorts of fake news like we saw during Covid and the last couple of presidential election cycles. Yet they removed this?
And again, it’s from 2018, which kind of gives you creepy insight as to how they are all crawling all over our personal pages and any other pages or groups we might belong to. It’s like they want to find something wrong to justify their existence yet when you report a Facebook profile for being taken over by spammer and it’s someone you know they don’t take down the profile and they don’t return the profile to the original owner.
Zuckerberg is a jackass. His baby will literally allow porn accounts with his algorithms, but they remove things like this. I actually went and Googled to get some proof of that because after all now you have to wonder if they scour your search history too? Look away if you don’t want to see. Actually, I didn’t really post anything truly offensive below, just enough to prove the point that these accounts exist on Facebook and they allow them but they take an article talking about a naked bike ride off of Facebook for going against “community standards.”
It’s like they allow spammers and hackers to pollute their social media site along with fake products from overseas for sale that if you order them they either never arrive or look nothing like what you saw on Facebook originally, but if you are just a regular person, sharing an article you saw on the news that you thought was funny that was real news and actually kind of benign they will ding you for it.
And to think people think they’re going to build their “business brand” via social media platforms like Facebook?
Facebook where light hooking is ok, but not articles from real news outlets. Thanks for stopping by.
