Is This Censorship? Facebook Stops Users From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropriate’ Comments

s This Censorship? Facebook Stops Users From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropriate’ Comments

TC ^ | May 5, 2012 | Coleen Taylor

Posted on Sunday, May 06, 2012 1:01:59 PM by yoe

Updated. Today was just another Saturday morning in blog land when Robert Scoble, the well-known tech startup enthusiast, went to post a comment on a Facebook post written by Carnegie Mellon student (and TechCrunch commenter extraordinaire) Max Woolf about the nature of today’s tech blogging scene. Scoble’s comment itself was pretty par-for-the-course — generally agreeing with Woolf’s sentiments and adding in his own two cents.

But when Scoble went to click post, he received an odd error message:

“This comment seems irrelevant or inappropriate and can’t be posted. To avoid having comments blocked, please make sure they contribute to the post in a positive way.”

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