FB Community Standards are a joke

Profiles claiming to be beer brands Speights and Waikato draught were flagged as a fake profile - and neither were found to be in violation of Facebook's community standards. 

Apparently mocking people with disabilities, women and pregnant people does not go against the community standards. 

Apparently expressing anger towards the alleged killer (who is already wanted for arrest) goes against the Facebook community standards. 

But fake profiles are A-OK with Facebook.

Facebook and alcohol healthwatch are complicit in the harassment of the Auckland baker. Alcohol Healthwatch shames people who drink alcohol in front of children - and even those who teach them to drink responsibly when older, and Facebook allows this sort of abuse to occur on Facebook and Instagram (which is owned by Facebook) - in which Facebook allows this to occur.

No matter how much Alcohol Healthwatch is trying to "reduce alcohol harm" - at the end of the day, they have empowered trolls to harass others. They, too, need to be held to account for empowering and enabling this sort of behavior.

Not a surprise as Facebook's inept community standards means that trolls and bigots feel enabled to leave hateful comments and posts on Facebook business pages.

I'm against any racism towards Maori people.

But I'm also against Anti Semitic remarks aimed at Jewish people.

This post was reported to Facebook for this very reason, and was found not to violate the community standards.

Facebook cannot even tell a difference between a place/town name and an actual swear or cuss word.

Also, there are so many towns, places, cities, monuments and even bridges/culverts with words that can be seen or perceived as offensive if pronounced wrong (or right). Example: Tuakau, if mispronounced (or if pronounced in other accents), could end up sounding like "To Cull" (or even "to kill"), which translates to "to kill/slaughter" - in this case, the name could be perceived as threatening or violent by Facebook, when in reality, Tuakau doesn't even mean that at all.

There are many, many places, monuments, buildings, or even bridges or culverts with names that could sound offensive if mispronounced, or if the name is spelt very similar to a swear word. In New Zealand, we have our fair share of them, a small example (and non exhaustive) list can be found here. We've even had the N word for three geographical place names in the South Island (which are renamed now).

There are also many place names all over the world -I've listed two for example - Hell, in Norway and Fucking, in Austria.

The ugly and lethal consequences of racism, misogyny and hatred against sex workers. All of which Facebook allows on their platform, and allows the hatred to flourish. And hate speech leads to offline consequences.

Facebook removes any content which features feminist topics such as menstruation, or shows female nipples, or posts or comments that call men “trash”. Yet, Facebook doesn’t seem to be bothered with blocking scam pages, such as these fake Tipsy Bartender pages, or removing comments, posts and pages made by these scammers, who are trying to scam people out of money.