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: Althouse

Sean Ono Lennon calls Facebook "crazy" and cries out against "baseless cancellations by our social media overlords."

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This is crazy! Even for someone like me who is well aware of baseless cancellations by our social media overlords, to evict my friend @BretWeinstein is a new kind of insanity. I would go so far as to call it evil. You could not find a more measured and reasonable man than Bret. https://t.co/tGTm42FlTx
? Sean Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) October 22, 2020

After that conspicuous hit, Facebook reversed itself, claiming to

My first indication of a problem was this message saying Facebook had "already reviewed" the suspension and the decision "can't be reversed". My tweet about it clearly got your attention, but I have 400k Twitter followers.
What protects regular people from such "mistakes" Liz? https://t.co/DEvvgOaV4i pic.twitter.com/z43TZJr5j5
? Bret Weinstein (@BretWeinstein) October 23, 2020

Who, exactly, is Liz Bourgeois@Liz_Shepherd? On her Twitter page, she identifies herself as "@Facebook comms, formerly @TheDemocrats and @SpeakerPelosi. Mom of 2 tiny humans."

This is all very fishy. She's obviously a Democrat and completely open about it, and I take it she works at some level at Facebook and that "comms" means "communications" ? that is, public relations. It is bad PR to cancel Bret Weinstein and have Sean Ono Lennon pop up as his friend to call you insane overlords.

Who believes Facebook just flagged Weinstein's account as an imposter? Why would such a harsh unreviewable cancellation message be sent to a person who'd just gotten flagged as an imposter? Automatic actions like that obviously can go wrong, so who believes that's something Facebook has set up to be unreviewable. Indeed, Facebook seems to have reviewed it, though if the method Weinstein used ? getting Sean Ono Lennon to tweet about the injustice ? is hardly available as a method of review for anybody else.

"It can't be reversed" ? but it was reversed! Facebook didn't follow what its own stated procedures. There's a special injustice in that. There's an alternate path to relief for some people ? famous people or semi-famous people with ultra-famous connections ? and the rest of you deplorables can slip down the memory hole forever.

Full post as published by Althouse on October 23, 2020 (boomark / email).