Exclusive: Facebook takes down classical label
mainThe Norwegian label Lawo Classics has been suspended from Facebook after posting cover art on a Baroque release by the Dutch master Jan Davidsz De Heem (1606-1684), which Facebook deemed to be sexual.
It shows two pieces of fruit.
Facebook is not just very, very bad. It shows signs of going completely mad.
The release is Bergen Barokk “Suite Life”.
We live in bizarre times. Old puritanism in relation to sex is back, while depiction of extreme violence is tolerated.
More victims of too many cell phone towers around them.
“It shows signs of going completely mad.”
It only shows that their deep neural networks don’t have a 100% accuracy in image classification…
Nevertheless this site rule itself is quite stupid.
It’s a nutty world we live in…
Quite, and the US is always exploring new avenues of stupidity
We are definitely hell-bent on exploring the marvelous opportunities presented by rampant migration and socialism.
@Chiristopher Storey:
In my experience of living in the US, anything decried as “socialism” is something very worth looking at. Presently, the US is being undone by what I call the Real Existing Capitalism, by the same means as the Soviet Union was undone by Real Existing Socialism: Organized Irresponsibility.
It is about the way to advance the common good. Yet even this term is declared anathema, “socialist”.
Call it America’s Cuba Complex.
As for rampant migration: Lots of Floridians, including and especially the wealthy withe ones occupying towers at the beaches, will flood the continental US in the not too distant future when Florida turns into the Florida Sea.
Now, that’s the Fruit of Organized Irresponsibility. Bigly.
Advancing the common good is a fools errand. There are winners and losers and, unless you are the fool described above, do what it takes to be a winner.
My experience might be anecdotal only, but the biggest idiots I met in the US, and I met a lot unfortunately, all voted Republican. Almost no exception.
Yes, it’s anecdotal and probably a silly lie you’re telling to make yourself feel so superior. There are plenty of idiots in the US to go around, and no party has a monopoly on them. Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton, Eric Swalwell, AOC…idiots all.
It is a sign of how messed up we all are that a simple discussion of Facebook’s wayward technology that reviews images devolves into a really stupid back and forth about political polarization. Tamino’s truly useless comments are indeed anecdotal and if he believes he has imparted some real wisdom, more’s the pity. I live in the US and no one, no one in casual conversation tells you that they voted this way or that way. As to those looking from Europe at the US and shaking their heads, well, your systems of government are no better off these days. Doctor, heal thyself. Back to the topic at hand.
It’s pretty to guess people’s affiliations, once they start talking about Trump, Clinton or Obama. No need to tell their actual vote.
You haven’t met my in-laws.
Facebook is a very peculiar entity, which frankly now serves no useful purpose and one must question whether it is nearing the end of its useful life
with two billion accounts….
Of which 80% are dormant and produce 0.
If someone could invent an internet virus that would utterly obliterate Facebook, Twitter, and their ilk, he or she would be one of the greatest ever benefactors to mankind.
Yeah! Agreed. FB should be dissolved altogether. Zuck must be prosecuted!! Too much power, too much influence, too much money!!! No good – full monopoly and market domination.
We don’t bother with it – in this household we call it
(F)ArseBook. The French, moreover, call it Fesse Book !
The same French marching around in their nifty yellow vests?
Yes, and all other French too. They all despise Facebook with grande passion.
Isn’t that called a generalization?
Correction: the French call it “FesseBouc”, which is a pun of fesser (“to spank”) and bouc (“billy-goat”)
Correction: the French call it “FesseBouc”, which is a pun of fesser (“to spank”) and bouc (“billy-goat”)
Europeans continue to bend over backwards to serve Uncle Sam.
The only cure is simply delete your own FB account and live your normal life as it was 20 years ago. Call your friends and relatives, meet them, speak to them. Just normal life. It works. And FB disappears with all his useless things around…
Yes, but it is true that if you have friends scattered around your country and the world FB is a very effective way to keep in touch.
E-mail? Facetime? Skype?
Their Facebook page is working fine. It’s not down.
Fruit is very sexual.
It certainly was in “Tom Jones.”
So a still life of fruit can carry sexual innuendo and be removed from sight, but overt displays of T&A and hypersexualization go unchecked? De Heem must have been a Republican.
All very true until you revealed your lame belief that members of a huge group are undifferentiated.
The perfect explanation of why the US porn industry is thriving. Dumb***k Facebook.
It conjures up a highly imaginative Facebook staffer, screening stuff with one fist under his desk.
As bad as this news is, the comments here from the out-of-touch technophobes are much worse…
Right. It’s a dumb algorithm mistake. It’s funny, and will get fixed shortly, I’m sure. But I suppose people can feel free to give a long rant about how silly Facebook is and that we lived better lives without it… all while engaging in an online comment section.
The interesting problem Facebook and other tech companies are in is that the US government (and others I’m sure) are no holding them accountable for the content that ends up on their platform, posted by the world. So inevitably, you end up with overprotective algorithms with absurd fringe cases like this one.
About De Heem:
De Heems marriage with Anna Ruckers in 1644 had undoubtedly secured his position in the
Antwerp upper middle class. His father-in-law, Andreas Ruckers, was a celebrated harpsichord maker
with connections both in artistic circles, as well as with the Antwerp upper class, and de Heem may
well have engaged patrons through such family connections. Among Ruckers’ relations was the
diamond trader and art collector Gaspar Duarte (1584-1653).
Read more about this fascinating painter at:
https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/2808445/173474_07.pdf
Further evidence that social media is a pestilence run by, and catering to, cretins.