Beta testing Facebook's censorship engine

Day 2

My latest Facebook post:

Day 2. I'm posting a link to an Infowars story taken from CNBC and headlined "JOBS SURGE, UNEMPLOYMENT FALLS TO LOWEST SINCE 1969." https://www.infowars.com/jobs-surge-unemployment-falls-to-…/ Unlike last time, though, the link does not end at Infowars's landing page. Could it be that I'm inadvertently helping to beta test Facebook's censorship engine?

https://www.facebook.com/stewart.a.baker

Comments

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Mr. Baker:

Are you an active member of the Volokh Conspiracy's Board of Censorship or merely an appeaser of viewpoint-based censorship?

Thank you.

(Asking for Artie Ray Lee Wayne Jim-Bob, who was banned by the Volokh Conspiracy)

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Knowing the Dear Rev only from his posts here, and extrapolating to his friends, I will guess ARLWJ-B simply forgot his password.

[TwelveInchPianist]

Hey Kirkland, did you cancel your subscription to the New York Times after they incited the shooting, or are you still supporting that?

[regexp]

There it is. The stupidest thing I’ll read all day.

[TwelveInchPianist]

But not reckless, right?

[JesseAz]

I wouldn't read my own posts if I was you either regexp.

[Sarcastr0]

FFS TiP. Was that just needling, or have you gone that far around the bend?

You didn't used to be so talk radio.

[TwelveInchPianist]

Hey, I thought the link to incitement was clear.

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[regexp]

Another excellent detailed and relevant piece by Stewart Baker.

/sarcasm

What exactly does this guy do to warrant space here?

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Exacerbate your delusions of self-importance.

[markm23]

Save the rest of the VC from creating a sock puppet to espouse stupid statist positions.

[Iation]

Different test: I went to

https://www.facebook.com/stewart.a.baker

and got: The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed.

[Stewart Baker]

To further test whether the FB engineers were being subtle and clever, blocking access to members of the public but not me, I tried clicking the link from a machine never registered with FB. Facebook wouldn't give me access to the post unless I opened an account, which I did, separate from my usual account. Once I'd done that, the link worked. Can you check again to see if we can figure out what happened?

[Stewart Baker]

Link worked for me. If they are breaking links to the page for the public without breaking it for me, that would be clever and subtle.

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