The Garbage Facebook Wouldn’t Touch

Somewhere between old Arte Tracks episodes and the first season of Bored to Death, working through red wine and leftover sushi, I got a notification from Facebook. One of the pictures posted on this site’s page had violated their community standards. Deleted. Do it again and the whole page gets banned.

They never tell you which image, of course. They just remove it and leave the threat hanging. It wasn’t the first time.

So I carved out a separate corner of this journal for everything Facebook wouldn’t touch—videos, pictures, short takes, and actual obscenities. The garbage that makes the interesting parts of the internet worth using in the first place. No platform moderation, not always safe for work. If social networks think they can quietly censor their way to compliance, they’ve badly miscalculated.