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Shocking, sensational, excessively violent content
Topic Started: Apr 2 2018, 04:20 PM (144 Views)
George K
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https://blogs.franciscan.edu/faculty/he-was-rejected/

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“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” (Isaiah 53:3)

We posted yesterday a series of ads to Facebook to promote our online MA Theology and MA Catechetics and Evangelization programs.

One ad was rejected, and an administrator of our Facebook page noticed this rejection today. The reason given for the rejection?

“Your image, video thumbnail or video can’t contain shocking, sensational, or excessively violent content.”

Here is a screen capture of the notification:

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Our ad was rejected because it contained:
  • shocking content
  • sensational content
  • excessively violent content
What was the offending image?

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The San Damiano Cross. Jesus in glory, reigning from his cruciform throne. This is what the monitors at Facebook consider excessively violent, sensational, and shocking.

And indeed, the Crucifixion of Christ was all of those things. It was the most sensational action in history: man executed his God.

It was shocking, yes: God deigned to take on flesh and was “obedient unto death, even death on a cross.” (Philippians 2:8)

And it was certainly excessively violent: a man scourged to within an inch of his life, nailed naked to a cross and left to die, all the hate of all the sin in the world poured out its wrath upon his humanity.

“but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews, an absurdity to Gentiles. But to those who are called, both Jew and Gentile, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.” (1 Corinthians 1:23-24)

As Father Mike Schmitz points out in today’s #ShareJesus message, it was not the nails that held Jesus to the cross: he was God, he could have descended from the Cross at any moment. No, it was love that kept him there. Love for you and for me, that we might not be eternally condemned for our sins but might have life eternal with him and his Father in heaven.

This is sensational, this is shocking. This is only possible because of the excessive violence that he endured for us.

“He was despised and rejected of men.” It was ever thus and will ever be, for those who do not see with the eyes of faith, and love with a love unquenchable.
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Davis
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Huh? I hate regulation but social media has run amok.
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Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Can the baker still refuse the bake a same-sex wedding cake or not? If the baker should be able to refuse to bake a cake, why quarrel with Facebook for refusing to post an ad?
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Davis
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Axtremus
Apr 2 2018, 07:22 PM
Can the baker still refuse the bake a same-sex wedding cake or not? If the baker should be able to refuse to bake a cake, why quarrel with Facebook for refusing to post an ad?
Well, thank you for admitting Facebook’s agenda. It’s abirtrary mediation is clear. Actually if the agenda is admitted I have no problem with the free speech.
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jon-nyc
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Stop with the agenda bull sh1t. It’s a fvcking algorithm for christ’s Sake. It’s going to have some false positives, and sometimes those will be just plain silly.

(In my first sentence, of ‘Christ’ and ‘sake’, autocorrect chose to capitalize the latter. Apple’s agenda?)

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Mark
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HOLY CARP!!!
jon-nyc
Apr 2 2018, 08:16 PM
Stop with the agenda bull sh1t. It’s a fvcking algorithm for christ’s Sake. It’s going to have some false positives, and sometimes those will be just plain silly.

(In my first sentence, of ‘Christ’ and ‘sake’, autocorrect chose to capitalize the latter. Apple’s agenda?)

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Mark
Apr 2 2018, 10:12 PM
jon-nyc
Apr 2 2018, 08:16 PM
Stop with the agenda bull sh1t. It’s a fvcking algorithm for christ’s Sake. It’s going to have some false positives, and sometimes those will be just plain silly.

(In my first sentence, of ‘Christ’ and ‘sake’, autocorrect chose to capitalize the latter. Apple’s agenda?)

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Of course Apple capitalized the word Sake.
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Klaus
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Davis
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jon-nyc
Apr 2 2018, 08:16 PM
Stop with the agenda bull sh1t. It’s a fvcking algorithm for christ’s Sake. It’s going to have some false positives, and sometimes those will be just plain silly.

(In my first sentence, of ‘Christ’ and ‘sake’, autocorrect chose to capitalize the latter. Apple’s agenda?)

Ok, I can buy that. But I’m surprised that one of the most recognized images in the world and the facial and image recognition software is not applied. Seriously?
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Klaus
Apr 3 2018, 01:54 AM
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What, you don't like the Village People? :lol2:
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Davis
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More on the “trust us” at Facebook topic, my news must know Jon’s algorithm is trying to have at me. :lol2:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2018/04/02/facebook-keeps-saying-trust-us-is-it-finally-time-to-say-no-more/#4eed4751376e
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