Facebook Targets “Have A Gay Day” Facebook Page Over Same-Sex Kiss
by Simone Sanner
Friday evening the 100 plus admins of equal rights Facebook page "Have A Gay Day" were banned for posting a picture of two men kissing, and immediately logged out of Facebook on their phones and other devices as well.
The caption to the picture read "Did this picture offend you? Did you ever think, that your opinion might be offensive?"
Site admins then released a statement,
stating that the same picture, a close-up of two stubbled faces
kissing, has been used in the past, specifically six months ago, without
issue.
They had this to say:
"We
posted a photo of two men sharing a kiss. The only thing visible was
lips touching. The quote on the photo read, did this picture offend you?
Did you ever think, maybe your opinion is offensive? We had posted this
photo in the past with no issue and the last time we posted this photo
was actually six months ago.
All
106 admins of this page were kicked off of Facebook and logged out of
their mobile apps and computer access. When logging back into Facebook
we were told that this photo was found to be against the Community
Standards for Facebook. We have reviewed the standards and feel that
Facebook is in error. Many of us have received account blocks and locks
from myself a 30 day ban to some with 15 day bans and yet others with
only a few hours.
There
is currently no way to appeal this decision. In the past Facebook has
apologized to LGBT pages that had photos removed of couples kissing and
restored their accounts. We are asking that Facebook wipe this
accusation of being against their community standard from our record and
restore our power to post on our personal pages and fan pages. This is
truly uncalled for.
We
have enabled back up Facebook accounts so we have the ability to still
post. We ask that Facebook review their decision and promptly restore us
as a page, our personal accounts and issue an apology as well as
working to make sure this doesn't occur again.
We will do everything in our power to bring this to Facebooks attention as quickly as possible.
We will do everything in our power to bring this to Facebooks attention as quickly as possible.
If you are a member of the media or Facebook our inbox is always open for interaction. Thank you.
Michael
Have A Gay Day"
Have A Gay Day"
There
is no way to appeal such a decision even though Facebook previously has
apologized for such bannings and restored admins' ability to post.
The group is asking Facebook to restore the page and issue them an apology.
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