Free Speech Canto LII by Michael Ceraolo

Free Speech Canto LII

The people of the Book

(no, not THAT Book,

                                the Book

that is the McDonald's of media

in the early twenty-first century;

Billions Served)

                         claim to

"Empower you to express yourself"

and also claim to

"err on the side of allowing content"

                                                      yet

only a couple paragraphs later they state

"We make it easy for people to report

potentially violating content"

And so a poet

(here identified only as J)

who had posted a poem on her page

that was erotic though not remotely explicit

had her account temporarily suspended

because some of the professionally offended

(alleged friends no less)

complained the poem violated the Book's

Community Standards

She was found guilty and put in the Book's jail

until she removed the poem

(definition of Community Standards

- Censorship,

                    though

it doesn't call itself that,

preferring obscurantism)

                                      And

she was now one of the billions so served