For that Facebook rightly imposed a sanction, correctly stating that the comment constituted "hate speech" and banned me for a period of 48 hours.
After serving the ban I posted an unreserved apology to the "good people of Saudi" and stated that I accepted that the comment, in its blanket format, constituted hate speech.
However I added that it was the Saudi regime that I had in mind when I posted the comment as this regime was, inter alia, responsible for -
persecution of women;
bombing children; and
the diabolical murder of a journalist ...
who was butchered with his body being bagged and disposed off to an unknown locality which was horrendous for his family given, in particular, their religious imperatives as regards burial.
I also added that my comment had been unfair to pigs as this breed had never indulged in such conduct.
For this apology Facebook banned me for Seven (7) days without stipulating in what way my apology had violated its Community Standards.
I submitted a detailed query pointing out the facts and merits herein. The ban was maintained without any explanatory response.
Not ONE Community Standard had been violated by my apology. !!!!
The inescapable assumption is that Zuckerberg & Co took exception to my accusatorial statement about the Saudi regime as augmented by the accompanying image, shown above herein.
This reaction by Zuckerberg & Co. is mind boggling in view of the fact that no reasonable person would take exception to my apology or the accompanying image.
There is nothing graphically disturbing about the image.
The statements made about the Saudi regime are matters of fact, widely reported on and supported by innumerable international agencies of repute.
I should mention that on occasion I have reported content to Facebook that posited current "Whites" in the Southern African region, as greedy racist bigots, on account of the conduct of their ancestors.
Facebook has always responded by thanking me but opining that these blanket condemnations and labeling of White humans, who are not responsible for the conduct of their ancestors, was NOT a violation of Community Standards !!!???
The inescapable inference must be that Zuckerberg & Co have an inhouse policy sensitivity about anything being posted that posits the Saudi regime in a bad light, even if 100% true ...
while it publicly takes an opposite stance.
There can be no other inference as the only persons who could be offended by my apology are members of that regime.
Hypocrisy is all too apparent.
Whichever way one assesses this saga it is clear that there is an arrogance underpinning Facebook's reaction, particularly the complete absence of any explanation for the seven (7) day ban.
It is the arrogance of Big Business.
Since Facebook has billions of subscribers it does not care about treating one subscriber with arbitrary summary contempt.
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