Hello Everybody,

Our friend, Ward Dossche, has been permanently banned from Facebook.
And for good reason. He did the unthinkable. He really should have
read Facebook's terms of service before posting anything at all. No
telling what else could have gotten him in trouble.

Terms of service (community standards section) spells out the
reasons why such comments (or photos/videos) mean banishment for
life. Appeal? Fuggetaboutit. Not only is Ward toast in the
State of California (which governs Facebook's terms of use), but
PETA has got his number. And the former president of Greenpeace
knows what that means ...

Here is Ward Dossche's complaint to some of his fellow sysops
in an area that Facebook is not known to venture -

-=start of rant=-

I've been blocked on Facebook ... because of raccoons.

Raccoons are an invasive species in this part of the world.
Friend of mine has a cabin in the woods (yes, our minister
resposible for the invironment calls 5 trees standing together
"a forrest" {this actually is NOT a joke}) ... and that
cabin is often visited by raccoons who are the North American
variant which escaped German zoos during WW2 bombings and
started reproducing ... they breed like rabbits.

The raccoons have no natural ennemies and move into territories
in the process chasing out the current occupants or just killing
them. Ground nesting birds especially are threatened by them.

So my friend posts photos of these raccoons and I responded that
someone should shoot them because they are an invasive species.

Apparently that violates Facebook's rules because I received
a message quoting my answer and saying it was inappropriate, as
a result they blocked me. I am being told I can appeal that, and
when I did I received a message telling me they were unable to
deal with the appeal.

It is possible to write about and comment upon mass shootings
in which real people get killed, but raccoons ... totally
unacceptable.

Right now I am searching the rules to find Facebook's policy
on raccoons. Wonder how they'll react when I write about my
new car ... it's German, a Mercedes ... would that be equal
to invoking Godwin's Law?

\%/@rd

-=end of rant=-

I can understand why Ward chose to tell his friends in FidoNet
what happened to him in Facebook. But what he fails to realize
is that Rocky Raccoon is a favorite among sysops. Maybe not
sysops in Belgium, but sysops from everwhere else, such as those
from Canada -

-=start of rant 2=-

So my friend posts photos of these raccoons and I responded
that someone should shoot them because they are an invasive
species.

Apparently that violates Facebook's rules because I received
a message quoting my answer and saying it was inappropriate, as
a result they blocked me. I a

Killing raccoons is considered hate-speech against the raccoon
species or those who identify as a raccoon.

Nick

-=end of rant 2=-

When the Z1C takes up for the raccoons, you know Ward Dossche's
goose is cooked. So grab your knives and forks, put on your napkins,
and eat up, everyone!

--Lee

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