Facebook Censorship, They are not, let see

Via::Liberals Cry Foul Over Censorship On Facebook

U.S. liberals claim their posts on Republican Facebook pages are unfairly being censored, possibly for political reasons.
The blog AddictingInfo states:

On Sun. Aug. 14, liberal page administrators and bloggers in my network started spreading the word that they had been blocked from posting ANY content on ANY other wall for 15 days. No prior warning was given.

The offenders are charged with posting links to news/opinion articles — such as this liberal’s guide to Republican talking points — a small number of times to LIKE-MINDED pages with which they regularly interact. (Some reported making posts to as few as 4 other pages before being suspended — for 15 days — with no warning!) I’ve also been alerted that Facebook has revoked some administrator’s posting privileges for sharing links to their liberal Facebook page on the walls of other liberal pages.

Facebook indicates these activists have been posting “spam and irrelevant” content. So, Facebook seems to be deciding for community pages what is spam or irrelevant before the actual page administrators are ever able to see — or re-share — the content.

A Facebook spokesperson has offered the following response to us via email:

Facebook is not — and has never been — in the business of disabling accounts or removing content simply because people are discussing controversial topics. On the contrary, we want Facebook to be a place where people can openly express their views and opinions, even if others don’t agree with them. It’s also incorrect to assume that in every case where a person’s account is disabled, or a piece of content is blocked or removed, it’s because of the nature of the content itself. There are a few types of content that we don’t allow, such as nudity and pornography, hate speech, and threats of real physical violence, but sensitive topics are not against our policies.

When we take action on an account or piece of content, it’s nearly always for one of the following two reasons:
The content or behavior associated with the account was reported to us by people on Facebook, and we reviewed it and determined that it violated our community standards (http://www.facebook.com/communitystandards).
It was flagged by one of our automated systems for preventing spam and other annoying behavior (explanation of these systems here: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=403200567130).

Examples of behavior that might be flagged include having a high percentage of friend requests ignored or marked as spam, or sending lots of friend requests or messages to members of the opposite sex who are not your friends. We’re constantly building and refining these systems to protect the people who use Facebook. Of course, no system is perfect, and ours occasionally make mistakes. When this happens, we work quickly to fix it and learn from it, and to apologize to those affected.