“Let us never assume that if we live good lives we will be without sin; our lives should be praised only when we continue to beg for pardon. But men are hopeless creatures, and the less they concentrate on their own sins, the more interested they become in the sins of others. They seek to criticize, not to correct. Unable to excuse themselves, they are ready to accuse others.”The author of this hate-filled content was a little-known writer named Augustine of Hippo.
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I think it was a reflex. Augustine so OBVIOUSLY twirled his moustache< /SARCASM>...
Encouraging people to reflect and think for themselves? Yeah, I can see why it upsets the PC crowd.
The best thing about this is the harder they squeeze, the more people become aware.
There is a revolving door between the DNC powers and the media giants.
I think the offending line was "Men are hopeless," that the algorithm picked up. Change that to "humans" and i think it will not be taken down.
I've tweeted it on my feed; we'll see how long it lasts.
Eric Hines
A FB friend reposted the quote this morning, she was wondering how long it would take before it was taken down. As of now, about 12 hours after I originally saw it on her page, it's still there.
I wonder if FB's deletion of the quote originally had to do with who posted it as much as with the content.
I think it's likely that Mr. Bettinelli shares a reader (who is reporting the posts to Facebook) with his friend Father Wescott. As evidence, I submit the fact that raw text may get picked up because of certain phrases by an algorithm, but his second "warning" came because of an image capture of the notification of the first warning. Computers are very bad at recognizing images of words. It's why Capcha used that to weed out bots for so long. So that leaves the likely cause to be a human flagging the posts as offensive (something which can be done automatically). It would also explain why some of his commenters have been able to post it without it coming down while others (who may have friended Mr. Bettinelli on Facebook, and thus have their posts seen by this same person) can't.
It's just a theory, but it is one that fits the current observable facts.
I wonder how far above Algorithm level are the humans that FB employs as censors?....wouldn't be surprised if some of them would read "men are hopeless" as an attack on the male gender. OTOH, that opinion might be just fine with the policy-setters at FB.
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