Cause Célèbre or Passing Outrage du Jour?
Jay Branscomb, meme-maker and Internet funny guy who once
won the Webs with his Spielberg Triceratops gag, is on 30-day suspension for
chiding a visitor to his page for misusing the word “bare”.
Troll was displeased. He rebuked Branscomb with harsh
language and then reported him for violating an unspecified “community
standard”. It is not known whether human eyes ever read the complaint but Jay
is well known in the gun rights community for his memes and for frustrating
ammotrolls who seek their special brand of “dialogue” on his page.
This was facebook’s judgement:
Please share. If you do not, the NRA wins.
Like all Internet martyrs, Jay is trying to raise money off
of this. Unlike, however, Kim Davis or the Hate-the-Gays pizzeria, his needs
are genuine and he wants to create new platforms for his message that are less
dependent of the whims of mysterious and malleable algorithms. Here’s his
GoFundMe page:
