Facebook makes Karl Frisch sit in a corner for 24 hours because of his Chick-fil-A political cartoon

Democratic strategist Karl Frisch got bounced off Facebook for a day for posting this satirical ad about Chick-fil-A.

As many know, Frisch is openly gay and does not support the practices and policies of the chicken joint on account of what he describes as their support of anti-gay organizations.

“This is a load of horse shit. @Facebook has blocked me from posting content for 24 hours for posting this,” said Frisch, taking the matter to Twitter.

The columnist posted on Chick-fil-A on his public profile last week and received upwards of 5,000 views with 100 people re-sharing. “It’s obviously fair use,” Frisch told FishbowlDC, explaining that he first noticed the image on Twitter.

“I thought Chick-fil-A left a bad taste in my mouth, now it’s Facebook,” he said.

Is Facebook Chicken Sh&t? Journo Banned for 24 Hours

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1043803948 Jonathan Graves

wow. and people can write posts that use words like “f**got” as much as they want without tripping any alarms.
- http://twitter.com/AwesomeRobot AwesomeRobot
  
  Forgot?
  - Sagodjur
    
    OMG You’re so insensitive to Alzheimer’s patients to even use that word!
http://twitter.com/Epers Eddie Perkins

Who else now whats to put this on their Facebook page?

Edit: Turns out it was just a “mistake” and he’s unbanned. Still going to post the image.
- mattcornell
  
  “Mistake” is what Facebook always says. They don’t actually review flagged content before banning a user. See also: gay kiss photos.
  - http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy
    
    And breastfeeding
- KBert
  
  ‘Who else now whats to put this on their Facebook page?’
  1st thought… done.
Nancy J Gill

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/is-facebook-chicken-sht-journo-banned-for-24-hours_b79484

UPDATE: Here’s a funny twist. It was accidental! Andrew Noyes of Facebook wrote FBDC to say, “This was an error and we apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused. He can feel free to repost the image.”
- EH
  
  They didn’t mean to roll out this new functionality in such a visible way.
- http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy
  
  You misquoted, lemme FTFY,
  
  “… He can feel free, yeah, FEEL, like, feel the chill, bitch, and don’t forget it either, funny man!”
  
  That’s better.
hermanSF

But *fake* users are okay I guess?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Abby-Farle/266336273475699
ZikZak

I’ll just leave this here.
- ocker3
  
  .doc files are relatively easy to get the actual text out of even if they’re a bit corrupted, by anything more complicated than text is hard to get out. It’s the thin end of the wedge though, just trusting a company with which we have no real contract with which we can enforce our rights. If FB loses all of the photos that I’ve uploaded, are they in breach of a contract with me that I can enforce? Nope, I’d better keep a copy of them all somewhere else, otherwise I stand to lose a Lot of data.
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/KHUGSYMRDZ635QMFO5P6UA5MTM nunya
  
  Like
  
  I don’t usually get to do that since I avoid Fakebook like the plague.
hermanSF

oops. thought this was a pro-chickfila account but it’s not. Therefore, it is fake and funny which makes it okay in my book. as do the memes:
http://memegenerator.net/Abby-Farle/images/popular/week/page/5
http://www.kmoser.com kmoser

It may be a douche move on Facebook’s part but it’s still their house so they can make any rules they want. No different from Joe Blogger deciding who is and isn’t allowed to post comments on his blog, and what posts he lets through.

Don’t want to be censored? Post on your own server.
- http://grumer.org/ Avram Grumer
  
  And the rest of us get to criticize them for the decisions they make.
  - t3kna2007
    
    ^ This
Navin_Johnson

Don’t want to be censored? Post on your own server.

?

I’m trying to find the post where somebody suggested that Facebook couldn’t ban who they liked, even if it was for dumb reasons… Certainly the guy can complain about the ban if he likes?
ChrisO

And for conservatives, you can be pissed at Facebook too. Mike Huckabee’s pro-Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day event disappeared without explanation yesterday, but was also eventually reinstated.
- mccrum
  
  Equal censorship for all! Yay America!
- Teller
  
  Pardon, but I believe that’s Huk-a-B.
ferd

Thank God he didn’t bring up adding more Kale to your diet!
Aaron Wong

can he make one for the BSA?