How do you know when it’s time to unplug? What do you do to make it happen?

Unplug what? My internet router? Well, this incident brought me pretty close:

Naughty naughty, very naughty.

On Saturday I received a yellow card from the Facebook Gestapo for a comment that contravened The Rules by “inciting violence”. They were referring to my statement that Louis Catorze needed, and I quote: “a kick up the arse”.

Cat Daddy: “Oh dear. You’re worse than Kurt Zouma.”

You know when unjustly-accused suspects tell the police, “While you’re wasting time on me, the real perpetrator is still out there”? Yes, that. Exactly that. I once reported some random Instagram user for writing “Send him back to Africa” on a black (English) footballer’s page, only to be told that the comment did NOT break the rules. In fact, that day, I reported countless comments expressing similar sentiments, and was repeatedly told exactly the same thing. Yet here they are, coming after ME for stating – on a closed forum, with no impressionable kiddos present – that my cat needed a kick up the arse.

Might I add, too, that Catorze absolutely DOES need a kick up the arse. Everyone knows this. Even people on the other side of the world who have never met him, know this.

So now it seems I’m not allowed to state facts about this coercively-controlling furry psychopath who rules our house, leaches our money and hastens our march to the grave. And it wouldn’t surprise me to discover that he had something to do with all this.

“Don’t blame moi.”
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41 responses to “La police de la censure”

  1. CC avatar
    CC

    I once left a comment on Facebook under a photo of a fat squirrel, called him ” a fatty” and Facebook restricted me months for ” Bullying,” … 🙄

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Did the squirrel have his face pixilated out to avoid embarrassment? 🤣🤣🤣

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      1. CC avatar
        CC

        No but mine needed to be after lol

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          🤣🤣🤣

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  2. Kate Crimmins avatar

    I can see you are a very violent person. Poor Louis. Best he keep is arse out of your aim!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Don’t feel sorry for him!

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  3. Lou Carreras avatar

    And what happens when a Grey Menace or a Catorze abuses us? Will they stick up for us? No…it’s a great feline conspiracy is what it is. After all the internet is about cats.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Quite right! When we are the victims, we either deserved it or we aren’t believed.

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  4. sevencatsandcounting avatar

    I bet Louis reported you himself!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      That would not surprise me one bit!

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  5. Donnla Nic Gearailt avatar

    This is the automated software. It doesn’t like swearing, even mild swearing, and it doesn’t like references to kicking or punching.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I’ve said way worse to actual humans! 🤣🤣🤣

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      1. alicephilippa avatar
        alicephilippa

        Some humans do need a kick up the arse.

        In a food snark Facebook community overnight I had two comments directed at me:
        “Lose the pink” referring to the lilac bedroom wall in my FB avatar. I don’t like the trend for everything to be greige.
        “Get rid of the nose ring” presumably they think an olde pharte like me shouldn’t have facial piercings. Better to be a weird olde pharte than old before my time.

        I’d class those as mildy bullying comments, yet they are perfectly fine, even if they have utterly no relevance to the community.

        It will come as no great shock that they were both by men. My apologies to the men who aren’t like that. But those two really really do need a kick up the arse.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          Good grief. Why do people feel the need to give orders to others like that? I hope you told them to f*** off.

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          1. alicephilippa avatar
            alicephilippa

            I decided to be the better person and ignore the provocation. They can go off and think that they have won.

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            1. iamthesunking avatar
              iamthesunking

              You did the right thing. They won’t think they’ve won; they’ll think you didn’t see the comments. Nothing is going to frustrate them more than that!

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  6. Mme Chapeau avatar
    Mme Chapeau

    I was brought up in a family where children who needed a kick up the arse, were given that kick, but it was when the Web didn’t exist yet.
    🙂
    Be that as it may, I sympathise with you even if I’m not utterly sure Louis deserves such a nasty measure.
    🙂

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      That is exactly what he wants you to think!

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      1. Mme Chapeau avatar
        Mme Chapeau

        Do you mean I’m too gullible in front of his fine appearance?
        🙂

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          YES. He’s got you with his creepy mind control.

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  7. Penny Cooper avatar
    Penny Cooper

    He has a look of ‘that told you!’ on his face. Unbelievable that ratial hatred is excused, although flipping Braverman is the worst of the bunch and she gets away with it in the Houses of Parliament so really should we be surprised?? Makes my blood boil xxx

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Oh God, yeah, she can say what she likes, it seems!

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    2. alicephilippa avatar
      alicephilippa

      Her, Badenoch, and Sunak get away with being anti-trans and spouting the same unscientific bollox as if it was incontrovertible fact.

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      1. iamthesunking avatar
        iamthesunking

        I have a trans student who is appalled by it all. Much as he hated Johnson, he feels especially targeted by Sunak. 😢

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        1. alicephilippa avatar
          alicephilippa

          Main stream media don’t help either.

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  8. Herman avatar
    Herman

    Seriously… is this true? It’s almost impossible to believe it… I bet the guy from the Facebook Gestapo squad is a dog lover!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      It is 100% true. “He needs a kick up the arse” were the very words that triggered the wrath of this moderator/AI bot/whoever. 🤷‍♀️

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  9. cathysrealcountrygardencom avatar

    Oh dear. How about “ up kick arse deserve” to avoid robot censorship, who of course richly deserve the same fate as le roi.
    If the stupidity of the incident actually does turn you off social media for ever then it is a very good thing.
    My aim today is to write an actual letter to a friend while the postal service still exists!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Haha! Do you think Yoda-ing future statements would trick the bot?

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  10. mary mcneil avatar
    mary mcneil

    In the words of a long-gone call-in baseball show I used to frequent, some people need to “get a life !” Though Louis’s expression certainly doesn’t inspire presumption of innoence.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Others have suggested that he was the one who snitched, and they’re probably right!

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  11. Belle avatar
    Belle

    It is disheartening to experience the death of sarcasm in contemporary society. Anyone who reads your posts knows that you and Cat Daddy are exceptional Roi parents! I see no hipocrasy in employing a bit of humour to describe certain behaviors, while being the kind of person who humanely and respectfully treats humans and animals. Political correctness has imbued social media to the extent that I stay off of it. I continue to enjoy Benny Hill, Are You Being Served, the comedy of George Carlin and Lewis Black, without apology. (This as someone who has volunteered with charities for over 30 years.) Whoever reported you deserves that arse kick!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I don’t think it was a person. I have a feeling it was their AI bot …

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  12. cat9984 avatar

    It does sound like Louis has friends in high places at Facebook. It reminds me of when they banned the breast cancer awareness people for using the word “breast” in their crackdown on pornography a few years ago. You must have uttered one of their specific forbidden phrases.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Oh my goodness, they didn’t like “breast”? 😱😱😱

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      1. cat9984 avatar

        I cannot think of a less pornographic name for that part of the body. I’m not sure what they were thinking

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          I know! I bet no pervert in the world has ever used that word!

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  13. M - avatar

    A friend of mine refers to them as Fascistbook. I’m just happy I have never been a part of their social experiment.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Yeah, I find myself getting really annoyed with them even though they’re a free service that I’m under no obligation to use!

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  14. Doug Thomas avatar

    Aw Facebook! The way around the Facebook Police is to substitute letters, for example: axxx. Or fock. Or siht, using the inversion method to write “shit”. I’ve been in Facebook Jail for over-posting one day. They have random rules they don’t publish that trap you into violation. Frankly, I have seen worse than “arse” pass for OK on Facebook. So much for Community Standards! I think some offenses are Little Petunias being offended by mild offenses making a complaint that no one in a million can believe any normal person would find a need to make.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      It’s so annoying, isn’t it? I have seen horrific things which I’ve reported, only to have nothing done about it. And here they are worrying about me saying my cat needs a kick up the arse (and, in fact, he does).

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