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Columbus Man Sues Facebook Over His Account · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day. You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Friday morning, sixteenth
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day of June. I'm wes, thanks for joining me. Not to roll
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on into Father's Day weekend. I hope you're prepared for Father's Day weekend.
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Us dad's got it rough, man, got it rough? I mean,
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don't need to tie a few things that we don't really need so much.
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We just we just want to be left alone for a little while. I
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don't know. No, I'm just kidding. I don't know Father's Day.
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Just make sure to take care of those dads in your life, That's all
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I'm saying. I already feel like the luckiest dad in the world. I
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got great kids and a great bride and a great dog. I'm in good
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shape, man, I'm in really good shape. Hey, I want to
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talk about this story. Is it made its rounds. It's it's coming out
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of Columbus, George, and it doesn't involve Donald Trump. It kind of
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does, I mean, just in the sense that the guy involved really doesn't
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like Trump. But anyway, not to out him for that. I'm just
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it's not really what the story is about. There's a Columbus man who had
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his Facebook account taken away from him and he just got locked out of it.
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Woke up one morning, was out of his Facebook account, couldn't get
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into it. All of his pictures, he'd shared, his videos, everything
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that he'd put in there was just locked out. He couldn't get to it,
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and he was told, apparently in just a one little message that came
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to him, that he was out for and banned for violating the Facebook child
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exploitation rules. I guess he talked to an Atlanta media outlet. He woke
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up on a Sunday morning, I tapped on my Facebook icon and I was
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locked out. Said he never really got a proper explanation for anything or what
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it was. He just said that's it violated the child exploitation rules and had
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no access to his account. So he proceeded to do what some people have
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had to do over time for different reasons. With face. He tried to
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contact someone at Facebook. This is next to impossible to do. As he
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discovered, over the course of my job in the last ten fifteen years,
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there were times where I needed to contact someone at Facebook and you just can't
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do it. I currently have a matter that I need to discuss with Facebook.
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It doesn't involve anything close to this particular situation, but I need some
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help with something involving an account that I used to have for a few different
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reasons, just something in the ad buying capacity. But there's no one to
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contact, there's no way to reach them. You can send the messages,
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there's just no one at home there. It's very intentionally isolated. They're intentionally
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you know, difficult to contact and difficult to reach. So he tried to
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do that apparently, and couldn't get anything. No one, no response,
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no anyone, no explanation, insisting I didn't do anything that would come close
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to qualifying as child exploitation. So finally what he had to do was he
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decided to soothe them and maybe that would get their attention. So that's what
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he did. After he said it was like I didn't exist and Facebook was
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operated by a bunch of ghosts or something. So he did. Oh and
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by the way, if you're going to appeal something, you make the appeal
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through your account. He didn't have access to his account, therefore he could
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not appeal. It felt like he was a dog chasing its tail. That's
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how he described it. So he himself, a lawyer, decided to follow
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lawsuit against Meta. He'd lost anything to do with Meta. He couldn't all
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the all of the affiliated what'sapp and Instagram and everything. He was out of
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all of it. So he decided to soothe him, and a judge ruled
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in his favor awarded him fifty thousand dollars. Now, he says they have
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not paid him yet and that they activated his account again. He says he
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felt vindicated, so that's good. He says they haven't paid him. They
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I don't know that they're going to pay him. I don't know what the
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deal is. But apparently he says that he was told that his account had
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been hacked and that that's when someone posted something that was inappropriate. I guess
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that calls to the violation tag. And I went to his account and I
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just saw he's very pro left with his politics. And that's why I said,
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somebody who doesn't like Trump the first couple of things right out of the
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gate, or things about Trump, But that's it's his account. He can
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do whatever he wants to do with it. Apparently it's his account again and
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he can do whatever he wants to do with it. But anyway, that's
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why I said there's a little Trump connection to it, but not really nothing
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to do with Trump. Another story I want to touch on this morning is
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whatever the speech is that our president gave about building a building a railroad across
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the Indian Ocean, and he admitted that he had gone off script and that
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he was going to get in trouble. He's acknowledged many times that he's not
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in charge, that someone gives him things that he's supposed to talk about,
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and that he is, you know, not allowed to talk about certain things,
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and that when he does, he gets himself in trouble. But anyway,
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he was speaking. This is the LCV Action Fund, next Gen Pack,
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National Resource Defense Council Action Fund, and the Sierra Club all announcing their
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support for his reelection campaign. And then he just started to He talked about
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climate change in the only truly existential threat and all those sorts of things,
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some of the talking points we've heard over and over again. What is not
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a talking point is whatever this is? And here he is, well,
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we're going to win and we're gonna help. We have plans to build a
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railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean. We have plans
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to build in Angola on the large are just solar plants in the world.
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I could go on, but I'm not. I'm going off script. I'm
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gonna get in trouble. So a railroad across the Pacific Ocean all the way
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across the Indian Ocean. Well, we're going to wind and we're gonna help.
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We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across
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the Indian Ocean. We have plans to build in in Angola, one of
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the largest solar plants in the world. I could go on, but I'm
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not. I'm going off script. I'm gonna get in trouble. Just led
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to let you hear it twice because it's one of those things that when I
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heard it the first time, I thought, did I even hear that?
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Correctly? A lot of Republicans jumped on it. Jason chaffit's tweeting bold initiative,
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mister President. The Desantist campaign actually showed a picture, it says ambitious,
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and it showed a picture in North America to Africa, and it's got
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the dotted lines of where the train would have to go. That's ah,
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that is bold. I don't know what he's talking about. Does anybody know
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what he's talking about? Have we gotten any sort of an explanation. We're
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in a re election cycle now for this president who is eighty. They you
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notice remember he turned eighty and nobody really told us. There was no acknowledgement
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of celebrations. There was no big party, there was no world leaders coming
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in to celebrate. No, there was simply just pretend it's not happening and
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let's keep moving. This is the same guy who has an interview said I
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got drop dead tomorrow and those sorts of things. So this is uh,
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really this is an Easter bunny caliber. If the Easter bunny was there,
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they could have had the Easter bunny run out and stop him from talking,
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because you know, that's happened before. It was around Easter. Certainly wasn't
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in June. But still that is I don't know what he's talking about,
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but that nuts. That is a sign of someone who is I mean,
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I don't know, and this isn't me making fun. I just don't know
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what he's talking about. I don't know how this even gets into his what
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is he misheard what has been said in front of him that makes him think
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this is any Is this something that he saw on the History Channel? Is
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this an ancient aliens thing? I don't. I don't know what did they
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cover this on an episode of Matlocke. I don't know where this would even
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come from. What exactly is he talking about? I don't. It's it's
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scary to think that we have a president who is um anyway, uh,
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just we're We're. Today is the official release day for the Flash movie,
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and there will be some folks talking about it. I want to brace you
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because a couple of things that you need to know. Ezra Miller, who
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stars as the Flash in the movie, is a person who uses they them
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pronouns. So you may over the course of story hearing stories about the movie.
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They don't have Asra Miller outdoing publicity for the movie. Ezra showed up
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for the movie premiere, something that had no real public appearances for Ezra for
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quite some time because of legal issues. Ezra has been in trouble for a
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number of things, and some had accused Ezra basically running some sort of a
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almost like a cult. So this is a movie that they had done so
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much of the movie already that they really couldn't undo all of the MBA's plans
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for this movie. So if you're hearing any publicity about the movie and you
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hear the they thems, I'm just bracing you that you could hear those.
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Now another famous person who's been using they them pronouns, and I don't even
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know if this person is still famous. Are they still famous? Demi Levado
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and Demi Levado had been using they them pronouns, and apparently she I can
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now say she is now back to using she her pronouns because she said she
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found it exhausting telling everyone all the time that she was a they them.
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Twenty twenty one is when she came out as non binary, and she asked
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that people call her they them now she's she That's why I can say that.
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And she also says she feels more feminine these days. So it's partly
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because of the frustration having to correct people all the time with them. There's
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a reason for that, because it's not the way the English language works.
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I mean, that's that's ultimately the reason. It does sound odd when you
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say it. It sounds odd when it comes out of your mouth, because
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there is a use for they and them that for you know, the history
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of the English language hasn't involved referring to a person, so that's why it's
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very difficult. It's very challenging for some to embrace that. It's like being
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told you're supposed to say pronounce something incorrectly. Right. Someone moves to Columbus,
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Georgia and they have a hard time not saying Jordan, like Jordan High
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School or Buena Vista Road, and anyone who lives here knows that that is
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not the way that we pronounce it here. So you have to correct people
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until they get it right, till they understand it's not Cassetta, it's casita.
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Things like that, just basic little things. So it's similar to that.
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Now, eventually you can get used to it right. You can get
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used to saying, oh, it's Bunivista Road, Oh it's Jordan, I
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got you, Jordan High School. Okay, I got it. But it
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doesn't mean that it doesn't feel wrong when you're saying it. It doesn't feel
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incorrect as it's coming out of your mouth, and that's when you're talking about
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one person. It is strange for many that are used to I don't know
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speaking the language. For their lives to suddenly have to turn on a dime
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and refer to one person as they them doesn't mean you can't do it,
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doesn't mean you can't try to be respectful in every possible way, but it
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does mean that it's probably going to be difficult for some people to do so.
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Just remember you might be hearing some they them pronouns in reference to Ezra
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