Wednesday 10 April 2013

Why Is Facebook Blocking This Link?

1. "Reasons my son is crying", a tumblr where a father records the hilarious reasons his young son is upset, went viral this weekend, so we posted a link to it on our Facebook page last night:

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2. Only to see it gone this morning. We tried to post it again and received this message:

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3. It's unclear which part of the Facebook terms it violated, if any:

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Via: facebook.com

4. But it seems to have been banned from Facebook for everybody:

Veronica De Souza @ HeyVeronica Follow

@samir I just tried and got this twitpic.com/chxfj8

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Samir Mezrahi @ samir

Can anyone post this http://t.co/iAGxPotYPD to Facebook or did they censor it for all?

Jamie @ heyjammers Follow

@samir they deleted mine from last night, rawr

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It's strange: the Tumblr may be a bit mean-spirited at times, and it's easy to imagine that some users might take offense to it. But how does that translate into a blanket ban? We've reached out to Facebook for comment and haven't yet heard back.


Visit the source: http://www.buzzfeed.com/samir/facebook-blocking-reasons-my-son-is-crying-tumblr
Article author: samir

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