Can I use Facebook for blocking my account, please read.

[BigDaddyOKC]

I keep getting blocked from facebook from replying from people harassing me on Facebook. I dont cuss, threaten, insult. Yet I keep getting blocked. However, when I report people for threatening to kill me, harassing me, insulting me, some with cuss words and some without, some very vulgar, people posting my information such as dob, addresses, phone numbers, relatives names.. when i report these post most than 90% say they don't go against Facebook's policies. Yet I get blocked and when i see the post they arnt threatening, any bad words and such.

The reason I am asking about sueing is not the 1st admendment but due to the fact that Facebook does not treat everyone the same. I can prove with screen shots some of posts that have gotten me blocked that you can clearly see there is no insult, cussing, threats, so on and so forth. But when I report harassment such as mentioned before I get blocked, and not for a day or a week, 30 days, and i have probably been blocked from facebook a majority of 2017. They arnt doing wjat I would consider fair practices due to the fact i get blocked for saying that is a ignorant and bigoted comment, for example, yet they won't block the people that continuously harass me.

Thanks in advance.

 

[adjusterjack]

I don't think it's Facebook that blocks anybody. The individual page user does it for themselves. So you'd have nothing to sue for and you'd probably lose even if you did.

Appears that you can do your own blocking:

https://www.facebook.com/about/basics/stay-safe-and-secure/unfriending-and-blocking#1

But that won't stop anybody from posting remarks about you on somebody else's page.

 

[quincy]

I keep getting blocked from facebook from replying from people harassing me on Facebook. I dont cuss, threaten, insult. Yet I keep getting blocked. However, when I report people for threatening to kill me, harassing me, insulting me, some with cuss words and some without, some very vulgar, people posting my information such as dob, addresses, phone numbers, relatives names.. when i report these post most than 90% say they don't go against Facebook's policies. Yet I get blocked and when i see the post they arnt threatening, any bad words and such.

The reason I am asking about sueing is not the 1st admendment but due to the fact that Facebook does not treat everyone the same. I can prove with screen shots some of posts that have gotten me blocked that you can clearly see there is no insult, cussing, threats, so on and so forth. But when I report harassment such as mentioned before I get blocked, and not for a day or a week, 30 days, and i have probably been blocked from facebook a majority of 2017. They arnt doing wjat I would consider fair practices due to the fact i get blocked for saying that is a ignorant and bigoted comment, for example, yet they won't block the people that continuously harass me.

Thanks in advance.

You can be blocked from access to other people's Facebook pages. It is the choice of the one with the Facebook page who to allow.

If photographs belonging to you or if images of you are posted online without your authorization, you could have some legal recourse (depending on facts) - but any action that might be possible would be against the one posting your rights-protected material and not against Facebook which is merely hosting the material.

Any threats of violence against you should be reported to the police.

 

[Shadowbunny]

. But when I report harassment such as mentioned before I get blocked, and not for a day or a week, 30 days, and i have probably been blocked from facebook a majority of 2017. .

So are you saying that Facebook is suspending your account, thus preventing you from using FB? Or are you being blocked from certain individual, group, or fan pages?

 

[quincy]

Either way, the blocking or suspensions would be legal. The use of, and access to, Facebook is not a right.

There would only be a possibility for legal recourse if the content published violates a law.

 

[Shadowbunny]

Either way, the blocking or suspensions would be legal. The use of, and access to, Facebook is not a right.

There would only be a possibility for legal recourse if the content published violates a law.

This is quite true. I'll admit to indulging my curiosity with that question; his post was more than a little confusing. Perhaps he was indulging in some liquid Christmas-cheer while posting?

 

[FlyingRon]

Either way, the blocking or suspensions would be legal. The use of, and access to, Facebook is not a right.

The legal principle is as my wife would put it: Facebook's circus, Facebook's monkeys.

 

[quincy]

The legal principle is as my wife would put it: Facebook's circus, Facebook's monkeys.

Yup. I think that is how it is described in legal texts.

 

[Taxing Matters]

I keep getting blocked from facebook from replying from people harassing me on Facebook.

If you are getting blocked from posting on just a particular user’s page that is not done by Facebook (FB), that is done by that other user and there is nothing you can do about that. The other user may block you from his/her page at any time for any reason. If you are blocked from using YOUR account, that is done by FB.

The reason I am asking about sueing is not the 1st admendment but due to the fact that Facebook does not treat everyone the same.

The First Amendment is a limitation on the actions of government, not private persons or entities like FB. Also, there is no requirement in the law that a business must treat every customer the same. All the law says is that a place of public accommodation (which includes most businesses, though there is some debate to the extent online businesses are places of public accommodation) cannot discriminate against customers based on characteristics like race, color, religion, disability, etc. A business may treat you differently from other customers because it does not like what you say.

If you want to stay on FB, avoid posting things that anger or offend others. FB is under increasing pressure from the social justice crowd to police the posts that appear on its site so I expect FB will, if anything, get more active in removing posts and blocking users in the future. Try using a rule I learned growing up: if you have nothing nice to say about someone else, just say nothing at all.

 

[quincy]

Here, by the way, is a link to the Communications Decency Act, section 230, which provides immunity from suit to hosts (like Facebook) of third-party content:

47 US Code section 230: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

The one who is responsible for the content that is published is the creator of the content.

 

[Just Blue]

This is quite true. I'll admit to indulging my curiosity with that question; his post was more than a little confusing. Perhaps he was indulging in some liquid Christmas-cheer while posting?

Is excessive Eggnog a legal defense?

 

[Shadowbunny]

Is excessive Eggnog a legal defense?

I should have been more clear: I thought he was indulging while making his post here, which while confusing, shouldn't need any legal defense!

 

[Just Blue]

I should have been more clear: I thought he was indulging while making his post here, which while confusing, shouldn't need any legal defense!

Shadow Honey...I was just kidding. I should have used the in MY post ....

 

[Shadowbunny]

Shadow Honey...I was just kidding. I should have used the in MY post ....

It was definitely the that got me!

Hope you had a lovely Christmas, Blue!

 

[Just Blue]

It was definitely the that got me!

Hope you had a lovely Christmas, Blue!

I did have a nice Christmas...