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    LuaAnna Merlan
    6/02/16 10:05am

    Fucking bullshit facebook. Get your shit together.

    Murdered women? Totally cool. Breastfeeding mother? Account suspended immediately.

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      JujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes hereLua
      6/02/16 10:12am

      It’s not just Facebook, but American culture in general. Hyper-violence in movies and TV with little to no consequence? No problem.

      Sex and/or male/female frontal nudity? WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!”

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      SheeshTheseNamesLua
      6/02/16 10:17am

      So horrific and disgusting. I know a woman who used FB to run her fashion blog and sell bags and stuff, and who has thousands of followers. Her FB page was taken down one day out of the blue, and they gave her no explanation, wouldn’t tell her what the complaint was, nothing. It was done absolutely immediately with no warning. But it took 36 hours for a naked dead woman’s picture to be removed???

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    DieselDamselAnna Merlan
    6/02/16 10:27am

    Facebook also offered Jennifer’s friends and family the option to “block” her if they didn’t like what she’d “posted”. The pictures were only taken down after Facebook ascertained that the account had been “hacked.” According to the New York Daily News article: “The social network initially declined to take the photo down because it believed the graphic image was posted as a call for help from the victim, not the killer.

    “Facebook has long been a place where people share their experiences and raise awareness about important issues,” a Facebook spokesperson told the Daily News. “Sometimes, those experiences and issues involve violence and graphic images of public interest or concern.”

    Also: “A spokesperson for Facebook defended their actions to CBS11.

    They told us graphic photos are not a violation of Facebook’s policy and even though they were flagged, they could not be removed until monitors determined Spears profile was hacked.”

    So, FUUUUUUUUCK FACEBOOK.

    Also: “During the arrest, police learned that Amyx was wanted for serious sex crimes — one in Rockwall County for continued sexual abuse of a child, and one in Dallas County for indecent exposure to a child.” In another article, it is specified as sexual abuse of a child under 14.

    And if you are not enraged enough yet, there is a video interview of one of Jennifer’s friends who’d seen the photo on her feed: http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2016/05/30/pla...

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      fennelbreathDieselDamsel
      6/02/16 10:36am

      According to the New York Daily News article: “The social network initially declined to take the photo down because it believed the graphic image was posted as a call for help from the victim, not the killer.

      Ohhhhhkay. Like her status update was, “I got murdered. Please send help.”

      WTFever, Facebook.

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      level250geekDieselDamsel
      6/02/16 10:39am

      Not wanting to take action until they determined the account was hacked is something I can get behind. However, seeing whereas this was a picture of a person with their throat cut open POSTED ON THEIR OWN PAGE I’m going to go out on a limb and assume they didn’t post the picture themselves and say that maybe it should have been moved up a couple of thousand notches on the list of reported photos.

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    puzzlepieceAnna Merlan
    6/02/16 10:08am

    I'm glad they checked the facts behind this photo! Otherwise they may have taken down a perfectly legitimate image of a bleeding, murdered nude woman.

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      CharlieForgotHerPasswordpuzzlepiece
      6/02/16 10:28am

      sounds like this was said by someone who believes in “opening up the water”.

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      SignalLostpuzzlepiece
      6/02/16 10:37am

      Yes! I am also extremely grateful they waited to be sure that this was a photo put up to intentionally distress people rather than all the other reasons you might want to post a photo of a murdered woman!

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    NomNom83Anna Merlan
    6/02/16 10:15am

    Anyone with insight or previous experience: When a photo is reported, what is involved? Is there a way to make the request so it is marked a priority?

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      FridayFridayNomNom83
      6/02/16 10:25am

      I’ve reported several photos before. People I went to high school with love posting gore, apparently. I don’t know of any way to prioritize it, you just click report and go through the steps, like you select whether it’s violence, nudity, etc. I can’t say how well or quickly it works though because I always immediately defriend the people who post that stuff, and reporting it has always immediately hidden the pic on my feed.

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      eats books and leavesNomNom83
      6/02/16 10:38am

      I’ve reported photos before but I don’t think there’s a way to prioritize. Oh, and any photo that specifically says “Get out there and kill all (insert name of religious group)” is 100% OK and does not violate any of FB’s guidelines because it’s not inciting violence. JSYK.

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    Masshole JamesAnna Merlan
    6/02/16 10:13am

    “A suicide pact?” Was she supposed to rise from the dead and stab him after he stabbed her? Is he saying she stabbed herself and he couldn’t go through with stabbing himself? Well, at least this dumbass should be easy enough to get on death row.

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      benjaminalloverMasshole James
      6/02/16 10:17am

      Yes, and “chickening out” of a suicide pact? A.k.a. not wanting to die? Because actually, if there had been a suicide pact-and I very much doubt there was- the alive person is the one who “chickened out”.

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      LouderThanTeslasbenjaminallover
      6/02/16 10:19am

      Yeah, here I feel like maybe the appropriate response is to leave a stout length of rope in his cell so that he can fulfill his commitment.

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    TibletAnna Merlan
    6/02/16 10:10am

    Probably too busy deleting cancer survivors’ post mastectomy photos celebrating their beauty.

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      weebleswobbleAnna Merlan
      6/02/16 10:11am

      Well we can all rest easy knowing they’re so on the ball with taking down breast feeding photos.

      That poor family — putting it on her page instead of his is an unspeakably cruel twist on an already tragic story.

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        chocolatechipcookiesforbreakfastAnna Merlan
        6/02/16 10:10am

        And still there will be here people saying that violence against women does not exist, and that men have it harder, and that it was her fault for chicken out, etc...

        This news make sad for the girls growing now because it feels like this world will never change.

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          Zabellachocolatechipcookiesforbreakfast
          6/02/16 12:52pm

          This news make sad for the girls growing now because it feels like this world will never change.

          Teach them that the world is changing, but changed takes time. In the 60s women couldn’t get credit cards. In the 80s, there was a new term called “date rape” because people started talking about the crime of rape and realized that victims often know their attackers. Tell them how girls used to be discouraged from taking math and now there are all kinds of program to help girls learn about STEM fields. One day my mom will tell her granddaughter about the time she told her boss she was pregnant and got fired (“soon you will be too big to climb ladders”), but things have changed and when/if granddaughter decides to start a family, her boss cannot legally fire her for being pregnant.

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        Martini of Male Tears for BreakfastAnna Merlan
        6/02/16 10:13am

        Yet MRAs can get Feminists United suspended for upsetting their fee-fees within minutes. Glad to see Facebook is consistent.

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          Rooo sez BISH PLZMartini of Male Tears for Breakfast
          6/02/16 11:18am

          And I’m sure they didn’t even have to “check the facts” that time.

          Because the facts were clear!

          ‘k.

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          DarthZurgMartini of Male Tears for Breakfast
          6/02/16 7:13pm

          That’s what fb doesn’t seem to realize. Nerds With Vaginas is getting suspended and banned from posting for X time, CONSTANTLY. Cause. . . jokes. But then someone post a video of an animal being set on fire and it’s fine. It’s like Buffalo Bill is in charge of their common decency standards.

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        Desperate for a Shag GilesAnna Merlan
        6/02/16 10:12am

        How exactly is a stabbing suicide pact supposed to work?

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          Nicole WattersonDesperate for a Shag Giles
          6/02/16 10:16am

          I guess they both do it at the same time, but should we really expect logical thinking from such people?

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          freaks go all the wayDesperate for a Shag Giles
          6/02/16 10:18am

          I’m not trying to be funny because this is sad, but the only way I can imagine that working is if you do it like jousting. You run at each other with big knives and hope you hit a vital organ.

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