The Fascist Facebook Regime: Going to Jail and Getting Sprung

I have just been released from jail, Facebook jail that is, and for the moment, I’m free.

There is nothing that rings my bell quite like the smell of cowardice. Rattling the cages of the patriarchal elite sends energy through my system like the sweet rush of an adrenaline-fueled adventure.

A week ago, I posted an article about how patriarchal systems are being dismantled by strong feminine democracy, and how the boys are running scared. Coincidentally, the next day, I woke to find that my personal Facebook account was in jail. In other words, it had been placed under restrictions for five days - no posting, commenting, liking, or messaging allowed until penance had been served.

Although my personal Facebook account manages my professional account, they are in no way affiliated with each other. In fact, they have different email addresses connected to them. The article was posted on my professional account, International Immigrant, but it was my personal account that had the “prison” notice.

I was surprised as I haven’t posted anything on my personal account in over a year, and I never repost links to my articles on my personal page. Despite all of this, there it was, the restriction for five days due to, wait for it… “child sexual exploitation”.

I can hear the collective gasps of everyone reading that last sentence, especially those who know me personally. There is, and never will be, any part of me that engages in any form of child sexual exploitation, but there it was in black and white, glaring at me from my page.

I stared in disbelief, taking a moment to let it sink in before clicking down the rabbit hole of why.

Let’s step into the wayback machine for a moment. About six months ago, I returned to Canada to get my affairs in order before moving on. I scanned pictures into my computer, sorted through boxes of items, making sale and donate piles, and extracted home videos from old DVDs. I listed many of the sale items on Facebook Marketplace, including a Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee, 1952-1977, souvenir pendant.

Apparently, it was this very item that got me placed in jail for child sexual exploitation, five months after it was posted. Again, let that sink in for just a moment - five months after it was posted. The item sat on Marketplace for five whole months before being flagged. I know that this is not possible, as when I tried to list an ivory elephant pendant, the platform wouldn’t even let me make it public due to animal abuse policies regarding the possible ill-gotten gains of ivory.

Fair enough. I could understand that one.

What I found far more interesting was that I was suddenly flagged for an innocuous item one day after releasing an article on my Substack about dismantling the patriarchy.

That’s a tad too coincidental, me thinks!

In my article, I mentioned that the boys were running scared of the strong women taking on patriarchal ideologies. At this moment, I feel that truer words were never spoken. To look at a profile that is not very active and then choose something as ridiculous as a souvenir pendant to flag makes me laugh out loud while, simultaneously, shaking my head.

It seems that the cowardice over there at Facebook knows no boundaries, and the orange megalomaniac’s little pasty friend has reached new lows, even for him.

My personal Facebook feed is constantly filled with videos and memes that openly challenge the powers that be over there in the “Great” US of A, usually reposted by friends. Thanks to corporate greed, my feed is also littered with clickbait ads and posts of videos that are actively hostile towards others, but, oh no, it is my inherited souvenir pendant that gets flagged for, I’ll say it again, child sexual exploitation.

Was Queen Elizabeth’s minting machine run by children forced to return sexual favours? I think not!

Call me crazy, but I would have thought that even stupidity had a little more sense. At least flag me for something remotely related to what I was selling. My theory is that they went for the most egregious offence they could find, in the hope that a few more of those flags would result in banning me and “my kind” from the Fascist Facebook regime.

I’ve removed the few remaining listings I have on Marketplace, so I’m interested to see what they find to flag next. Instead, I’ll just add this Badge of Honour to my collection of triumphant moments, as antagonizing the patriarchy and their fascist friends is a fabulous accomplishment. N'est-ce pas?

The uber-capitalist brethren think that they have us all captured in these neat little social media webs, but I can guarantee you that there are kids in their parents’ garages right now, working on the next Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and even YouTube. Yahoo! thought they’d have the market cornered forever, so did Skype, Twitter, AOL, and MySpace. There’s always another app or website around the corner ready to overthrow the leaders, so treading lightly with freedom of speech is crucial.

I guess I hit a nerve in the snowflake boys’ club. The Little Rascals “He-Man Woman-Haters Club” is now firmly established in the Manosphere.

In the wake of the Fascist Facebook Jail Scandal 2025, I have submitted multiple requests that the strike be removed from my account. As of yet, I have not received a response, but I shall keep submitting them until I do.

As my writing style has changed and I’m now focusing more on writing for women, I’m aware that I will tick off many members of the male species. This will probably not be the last time that Facebook tries to impose restrictions on my account without specifically saying that my articles are upsetting them.

While Facebook claims to restrict accounts based on the country where the platform is viewed and accessed, it seems that it is still under the influence of the American dictator. I am currently residing in Canada, and my account was created in New Zealand twenty years ago, two countries where freedom of speech still exists. There is nothing about my account that resides within the borders of the United States of America. I published my article from Canada, and it is under their laws, which grant freedom of speech, that I am subject to.

If the patriarchal values that exist in the United States under their dictator say that freedom of speech is not allowed and women are not allowed a voice, then hide my post from Americans. Problem solved.

While we are all indeed at the mercy of the governance of the social media platforms we access, Facebook would be wise not to anger GenX and the Baby Boomers. They are pretty much the only audience that Facebook has left. Millennials swoop in and out only to market themselves to the aforementioned groups, preferring to hang out on Instagram and TikTok, and Gen Z have never even been on the app. Although Meta owns both Facebook and Instagram, it still needs the former to do well, as ad space allows the owner to buy more cars and stay relevant.

Alienating Xers and Boomers is how the Facebook ship will sink. Mark, learn from your brother in censorship, Elon, he sunk his Twitter boat in a matter of weeks.

If you become a fascist regime in countries where the protection of human rights has become paramount, you are doomed to failure.

Long live freedom of speech. Sing it in solidarity, sisters, and viva la resistance!

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