 We could let's talk about the iron man bot. Yes, so If people don't know the story of the iron man bot, it's been around I think since around 2011 and I was on Twitter and saw somebody had an account TS Ella bot and I thought oh how cute and so I went ahead and see you know I saw if the handle iron ran bot was available and it was so of course I grabbed it and I started just sending out quotations because that's what the TS Ella bot did was quotations from TS Elliot and I was just kind of live tweeting those every so often and I thought okay. I want this automated I don't want to sit there all day tweeting and so I figured out I found a service that you can use you know, you could put up you know together a database of quotations and Upload them every so often and schedule them and everything so I figured out how to do that And I've been doing it for years and it's got you know 22,000 followers. It's respectable, right? I've never boosted it. I've never done anything. I don't have resources, you know, I just have Continuously sent out these tweets and then eventually I created a presence for it on Facebook So I made a Facebook page and just called it iron ran bot and so you can find it at Facebook forward slash iron ran bot By the way, you can go to the my program notes at don't let it go calm And you'll see a link to the Facebook page and then also some information about the taking down of the page Anyway, so, you know In terms of the Facebook page, I haven't been able to get it to consistently sync with twitter Where if the tweet happens that it automatically goes to Facebook So I've had to myself Choose some quotation off of whatever is most recent in twitter or maybe if there's another quotation I want to put I'll go post it on the facebook page and then recently I went there it was early last week And I get this notice and you again, you can see it on my blog at don't let it go calm You can see the sort of thing that I saw and it says your page has been unpublished Right and actually let me go ahead and read you the language that they give me because when something like this happens from facebook You don't know exactly Why you've been unpublished or your post has been taken down or whatever they give you some very broad language So it says it looks like recent activity on your page doesn't follow the facebook page policies regarding impersonation and pretending to be an individual or business Visit the help center for more information blah blah blah You appealed this decision tuesday july 16 2019 at 142 p.m My appeal was very Brief and succinct it said that first of all I tell exactly You know people exactly what it is that it's just Quotations out there that it's curated by me right. I put my name on it And at the same time it's called iron ran bot and iron ran has been dead for decades So how in the world could anyone think that this page is impersonating? iron rand right That's all I know. I mean I don't again. I don't know Who reported it or why schools might have complained about you Oh, you know the buzzards. Yeah, buzzards might have complained. Yeah, um So I have a couple theories, right? So it could be that it could be somebody else who I've Made upset for whatever reason and I make a lot of people upset because I actually criticized donald trump you know Bad amy bad bad. I know So You know I made somebody upset and so they went ahead and oh and by the way So there was on one of the recent posts There was one that I had taken a screen grab from twitter because I've got the twitter account, right? and There was this it was this time where trump was again sort of threatening to go after the social media companies and in particular twitter For something right because they're censoring conservatives. You know how this is going on And I just took an actual just quotation from iron rand That was essentially an answer to What trump had tweeted If you thought about it, you know, but I didn't add anything to it It was just a quote and it was just put in juxtaposition to this tweet from trump basically saying You know, no, you don't have the right to take over social media companies and have them bake your cake trump, right? so um It could have been that one right it could have been that one that buzzers or whoever reported it doesn't matter um, but the point is is that nobody could conceivably take that page as imitating iron rand or is speaking for her in any official way and the one post where it was like potentially saying something substantive and you know in the direction of making a commentary It was defending social media Right, so it's pro facebook as much as it's pro twitter or anybody else, right? So that that's the context but nonetheless somehow it got unpublished and As far as I know from one report because there wasn't any warning there wasn't any Oh, well, we're taking down this one post because this one post was in violation I mean, it's never run afoul of anything before it's never had anything happen And then suddenly the whole page is unpublished. So it was ridiculous. So I appealed like I said And then I just feeling easy or was it it was easy to find the appeal button or whatever? Yeah, so right there they tell you, you know, you go ahead and you fill out this thing I should have taken a screen grab of that too, but I did not um And of also what I wrote but I wrote something very brief and said that it just didn't seem reasonable for anybody to think that This was imitating anybody because the author's been dead for decades and It's quotations and you know, I say that it's me and everything anyway, so I appeal and You know wait and I just got there and I try to make as much noise as possible And I decide look, you know, this is where I'm going to draw a line in the sand that if I don't get a resolution of this That I find satisfactory including republishing the page Then as much value as I get as a person who does Meet facebook friends and you know even More than that right on facebook and I have these substantive interactions. I would let this go Because you have to stand on principle in a certain way and if they're going to be so arbitrary That they're going to find that this page, which is, you know, so You know sort of unoffensive It's just sharing quotations from I ran and in so far like I said is making commentary It's defending this medium against government takeover If they're going to ban that page then I'm out of there right so making noise making noise people saw me making noise your own I don't know if you retweeted my tweet. I was kind of offended at that But anyway, I didn't retweet your treat my tweet trying to make noise about it. I think you liked it You know like your tweets. Oh, that's really helpful. Thanks. Um, but There was there was a tweet out there and I had tagged you and I was like, come on retweet my tweet I don't I guess I don't tag you the right way I a lot of people they tag you in the actual body of the tweet and then you retweet that tweet But then I think I like cc'd you in a follow-on tweet and I guess it just Didn't do what I wanted. It's like retweet my tweet. Give me some noise Ben Shapiro gave me some noise. He retweeted one of my tweets about it, which was beauty um, and then finally six days After I appealed and was making all this noise six days They put the page back up and again if you go to the blog at don't let it go com You can see the screen grab Of what I got on that day. It was just yesterday actually. Well, isn't it? It seems so long That they put it back up. It says page published After reviewing your appeal your page. I ran bot has been published This means it can now be viewed publicly and I had to check and say I have read the message above So not only have I read it. I screen grabbed it facebook And then you can continue and go on and go about your business But here's I mean first of all, I just wanted to say one thing facebook You should not say your face has your excuse me your um, your page has been published as if they publish it or something, right? um The way that I was phrasing it because I'm looking out for facebook's interest because I am still I consider myself an ally of facebook as of this moment um I I can I put it in this way. I said that the publication restriction on my page was lifted Right, so I'm publishing And I'm publishing by virtue of the fact that they're allowing me to use their tool for publication I think facebook does not want You know in terms of this stupid law that they've been forced to You know kind of Say what the People are saying it says so if you read the law it doesn't say It doesn't make this differentiation between the law actually says that section 230 or whatever. Yeah. Yeah Citing that section actually says That these platforms can Decide what I have and have not because republicans insisted That the platforms be allowed to discriminate So that they wouldn't be forced for example to have porn pornography on it. So it's actually put in For the purpose of allowing the platforms To be able to Say what would go on the platform or will not go on never was the intention that the platforms would be such that they were completely passive And everything could be posted on it. That was never the intent of the law. That's not how it's written It's completely disingenuous of people to claim that this that they have been Granted some exclusion from being a publisher. It's the opposite. They were given extra ability beyond being Just in case Somebody wanted to claim that they had to publish everything Yeah, well, that's good in any event, but I still if I were them I wouldn't use the word publisher. So sure Yeah, anything that makes it seem like they're the ones doing the publishing That I think they would want to avoid but in any event. So so that's all that's what I know in addition to that um, I do know somebody within facebook, but Understandably that person who is not in the You know sort of community standards department Doesn't know and they're not allowed to know, you know Exactly what it is all I know is that it was a so-called false positive That's all I know is that the it came up as a false positive That could have been as a result of a report from somebody which I think is most likely somebody Reported my page to try to get me off facebook um, by the way, those people who themselves are condemnatory of facebook for curating content at all for having community standards at all And then go ahead and use those community standards to get someone like me unpublished But you don't know that somebody spoke out against you. I mean, I well, that's most likely I think that's the most likely thing. There's one other thing maybe just that okay. Well, there are a couple other things I was thinking So I have a different explanation. Oh, you do. Okay. What's yours? Go ahead. I mean my view is The they're trying to clean up facebook clean up whatever that means, right? They're trying to Determine they're not doing it by human beings because there's too many pages. There's just no way to do it So they've written a code that screams everything And flags anything suspicious or is maybe even Takes anything suspicious off And then if you appeal Then some human being actually goes there And actually looks at the page and says and this is why it takes six days Because there's probably a huge backlog of appeals Oh, yeah, no, I'm sure a human being to actually do it and a human being goes there and a look. Oh This is what that is. Oh, they they flag this wrong. Maybe Maybe the algorithm is looking for names of people who are dead because there are a lot of bots out there Spending information In people's names that are not legit, you know, russian bot type things Maybe it's looking for offensive quotes and they picked up something That she said that's not pc or whatever. Who knows but my guess is it's some Algorithm it's some automatic feature that that that took you off the page And then a human being to put you back on and that explains the six days and it explains why you didn't hear anything because it's in a queue Yeah, no, I think it's in quite a queue And what it raises for me is and you know another thing, of course, there's uh the iron ran Page is one of those check mark verified Pages So it could be that any other pages are maybe looked at as suspicious if they have iron ran in the name I mean, who knows right? I actually got permission from Leonard pick off to start this account by the way back in 2011 I got that I never got mine on twitter, but I got it on facebook years ago. I got the check mark Oh, you got a check mark. Okay. So but you again Yeah, you have to be verified or whatever who knows But that could have been part of it as well my Yeah, so maybe maybe that's right. Maybe there's some effort to quote clean up generally Or it could have been a report, but either way you're right. I'm getting caught up in an algorithm that functions automatically and Either at the very beginning. It's a very low level person at facebook who looks at it super quickly in making this decision to unpublish and that person may be Not very knowledgeable or sophisticated or even unsympathetic could happen as well And then you have to appeal to get out of that and you have to wait in the queue until What we need today what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason By the intellect not by feelings wishes wins or mystic revelations Any man or woman who values his life And who does not want to give in to today's scout of the spare cynicism and impedance and does not intend to give up the world To the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist