Facebook Complicity

Facebook allows someone to post an anonymous item suggesting that you respond with the name of your first pet and the first car that you owned (to create something like the name of a rock band).  These are questions designed to find out information to break into your bank account.

I posted that, whoever posted that request, should be “dealt with severely”, shall we say. Facebook blocked my comment and sent the following message: “Your comment goes against our Community Standards on violence and incitement”

Apparently Facebook’s Community Standards are perfectly okay with people trying to steal your banking information, but not with my suggestion that such people be prosecuted … hunted down and “terminated with extreme prejudice” is closer to what I actually said.

These are the scum that you are dealing with on Facebook.

However, and upon further reflection, I have come to realize that such phising scams are not merely “allowed” by Facebook, they are generated by Facebook.

Recently, Facebook has been piously posting comments to the effect that, after 25 years, there is a need to update regulations for the Internet.  I agree.  Posting such pages, intended to gather personal information that is key to unlocking password protection and safeguards for financial information should be a Federal felony, punishable by a minimum of two years in Federal prison and a $1 million fine per incident (with half of all such fines payable to the injured party), and that the burden of such crimes shall fall upon the CEO, COO, CTO and all members of the Board of Directors of any corporation involved in such activities.

That should slap the smirk off of Zuckerberg’s face.