{"id":57722,"date":"2024-11-11T18:58:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T17:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57722"},"modified":"2025-11-11T06:09:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:09:59","slug":"facebook-suspends-counting-stars-page-without-having-had-any-infringements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/11\/facebook-suspends-counting-stars-page-without-having-had-any-infringements\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook suspends Counting Stars' page without having had any infringements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defending ideas that oppose the ideological dogmas of the left is already a risky sport on Mark Zuckerberg's social network.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/04\/11\/the-zuckerbergs-trouble-when-asked-about-the-censorship-of-conservatives-on-facebook\/\">The Zuckerberg's trouble when asked about the censorship of conservatives on Facebook<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/03\/27\/facebooks-algorithm-identifies-a-cross-as-graphic-violence-and-censors-it\/\">Facebook's algorithm identifies a cross as 'graphic violence' and censors it<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>On November 3, <strong>Facebook suspended<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CountStars\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Counting Stars page<\/a>. This is an unusual move, since <strong>the page was created on May 5, 2010, and in 14 years it has not had a single violation<\/strong> of Facebook's community standards.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has apparently not removed the page, which <strong>can still be visited at<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CountStars\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/CountStars<\/a> and even allows visitors to start following it, but <strong>as of November 3, Facebook does not allow any content to be posted on it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54133057790_887e7fa2bc_h.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54133057790_4285aa5276_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is no indication that the page is suspended in the public view, but when I log in as an administrator I get this notice: <em>\"<strong>Your page has been suspended. This is because Counting Stars violates our Community Standards<\/strong>.\"<\/em> Clicking the \"View Details\" button for more information opens a small blank window that closes instantly. <strong>Facebook has never told me which rule has allegedly been violated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54132941634_8dc2667155_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see above, on the administration page of that account <strong>Facebook indicates that there has been no violation of the community standards<\/strong>, but just below, in the \"Restrictions\" section, it reports the suspension of the page stating the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"<strong>Your Page has been restricted because it doesn't follow our Community Standards. We know we're not always right<\/strong>, so if you think we got something wrong, please let us know you disagree with our decision, and in some cases, we may be able to lift the restriction.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>I have appealed this decision and have had no response from Facebook.<\/strong> Given the social network's usual practice and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/04\/11\/the-zuckerbergs-trouble-when-asked-about-the-censorship-of-conservatives-on-facebook\/\">its systematic censorship of conservative pages<\/a>, I have no hope that Mark Zuckerberg's company will correct this abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CountStars\/posts\/pfbid025juLP9CQ511z1TDbjYD2YC7tZinRhzvxTQHPrnL1f3h9HeiScoU8nBb1FL8uH45dl?__cft__[0]=AZWq7c9wImkJR_twGf04goqPDHO-dSH4A5VElIIml_xHHQ0tElhBMBG-SV4dreMFxbvue00JkNHcwd1H_T6TpPn8djvkI1kykGv4PorB0W4ePU2MUZ5O66ErMKDcv5QST63tANxCIJNbePB_Ha17f-9z2XoekUiAbpq1zrPdvx3AOzF-GjFaBZco54yPUR5Ot1A&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The last post I was able to make on that page was a criticism of the socialist government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/a> for its delay in deploying the Armed Forces after the catastrophe of the cold snap in Spain on October 29. Moreover, <strong>this censorship took place two days before the presidential elections in the United States<\/strong>. Significantly, Facebook has censored this English page but not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/elentir.info\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Spanish-language Contando Estrelas page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Those who wish to follow the news of Counting Stars<\/strong> can do so in the following ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Through the blog<\/strong>, at the URL <a href=\"http:\/\/outono.net\/english\">outono.net\/english<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/free-newsletter\/\">the free email newsletter<\/a> sent daily.<\/li>\n<li>In the <strong>Twitter<\/strong> account <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elentireng\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@ElentirENG<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In the <strong>Telegram<\/strong> channel <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/CountStarsg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@CountStars<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In the Counting Stars <strong>WhatsApp<\/strong> channel: <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va7szrR6WaKrhB5bbh1t\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>I've been updating this blog for 20 years and attempts to silence me have consistently failed.<\/strong> I will continue to do my best to make my opinion known despite instances of censorship like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending ideas that oppose the ideological dogmas of the left is already a risky sport on Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s social network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10395],"tags":[12063,23054,747],"class_list":["post-57722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-social-media","tag-censorship","tag-counting-stars","tag-facebook"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 00:34:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}