It’s theirs, they can do what they want, but, three times now Facebook has entrapped me to ban me.

For the third time Facebook handed me a meme in my memories with a share button, and as soon as I shared it they banned me for violating their community standards. These were memes that I didn’t author. These were memes that Facebook previously allowed to be shared and then placed in a location to return to me as memories. These bannings are an automated process, Facebook controls the timing. How interesting is it that they would wait until I repost a meme they handed me with that very purpose in mind, before applying their recognition process to see if it was one of the memes on their ban list.

I’m not mad. It tickles me that without their complicity I would never have run afoul of their automation on my own. Another funny thing is that unless they make available a list of the meme’s they ban users for, I don’t have any way of preventing it from happening again. Like I said, it’s theirs and they can do what they want. At some point I’m going to stop seeing the humor in it.