I've had facebook for years and received the following message when trying to logon to my account.
Confirm your identity with a video selfie
To make sure you’re a real person, we need you to record a video selfie. We’ll ask you to move your head during the recording to help us capture your face at different angles.
I'm not going to send you a video. I have no reason to believe that it would be secure. I'm 84 years old and I don't know every rule and communication restriction you have. I did not use the site to send any youtube advertisements. The Youtube videos I placed on my site were strictly political. I thought we had free speech in our country but I know now with this new administration that it's only freedom of speech for them, not everyone else.
My wife and I will miss Marketplace but I'll not, after all these years, send a video. I've checked other family members and their facebook sites have not received this video request.
I was singled out because of my political views. I'm a veteran and have done my time in Vietnam fighting for this country and I'll not have my photo or video show up on the internet, after all, you admit there is a security problem or else you wouldn't be using the excuse that you need my video to verify who I am. If you don't know me by now, you never will. I've lived many years without facebook and can live without it again.
Bob, don't submit your video. It sounds like a fishy request. Is MAGA trolling people and trying to gain your information and picture to go after you? It's great that you are being very cautious.
It's anyone's guess but I don't trust them or anyone with my privacy. One has to wonder today if they really use the video to pass on to ICE or someone at DHC. I'm a veteran and 84 yrs. old, born and raised here but apparently from the news they don't really care who they pick up.
Yes or scare us. I don't scare easily. I survived Vietnam and other things and I'll get by with this. I'll miss taking to family and friends but there are other methods to communicate with them. I'm 84 yrs. old and not very good with computers, which I told them, I didn't know all they're rules an such. Anyway we move on. Thanks for your support though. It's nice to see that other people still have feelings for one another.
I was asked in 2014 to provide a non-redacted government issued picture is to confirm my identity get into my FB account... told them to keep the account... this was just before Cambridge Analytica and the Russian bit troll farms stole American ID's for the 2016 "election"... also my pet account on IG was deleted last year for dangerous organizations after I posted a picture of my cat wishing her a Meowy Purrthday... FUCK FUCK
Yes, they only believe in Freedom of speech if it's their speech. They are like personalized robots, trained to react to only things that make the Orange Blob happy.
Their reply was to verify I wasn't an AI. I called them hypocrites on our CHAT because they use AI all the time to censure us. I told them I was concerned with my security and what they would do with my video. They said they could assure me that I was talking to a person. I told them to send me a video so I could verify who I was talking to. Of course that didn't happen. Our rights mean nothing to them anymore. Only meant something when FB was getting started. Now that they are rich and powerful, we are nothing and have no say. The only thing we can do is stop using Meta things like FB and Messenger to lower their income. They make their income every time you send a FB page to your family or friends you are sending them advertisement. They have so much money it would take thousands to cancel service to put a dent in their operation.
I'm 83 and know what could be and what was. Not what is now. Thank you for your service. I don't do Facebook, but know lots of people that do. Not my thing. I am not computer savey either, but just plug along. I do have opinions about what is happening today and want to leave this world a better place than it is today. Not the whole world, mostly, the USA. God Bless.
You are welcome: I understand what you mean and I let my political feeling be known and I believe that's a major reason they blocked me. I guess the truth was just too much for them. I felt like I served my country and had a right to express my dislikes as to the direction our country is now headed. You can't explain feeling to a robot and that's how they handled my account. I agree, this isn't the kind of world most of us want to live in but the rich and powerful have bought our government with they're big money in putting the leaders in office to serve their greedy needs. I knew years ago that Campaign Finance reform was drastically needed if we were going to turn our government around where we the people control whom we want to represent us. Now we have no choice.
They won't get anything from me but a hard time now. After having an account with them for at least 12 years and they done this to me. It's them trying to help this dictatorship for more power and money.
Wow! That is actually terrifying! Are they making a “list” of people to go after and round up for ElSalvador or some other God-forsaken place?! I’m even more relieved now that I left Facebook several months ago when they started censoring and deleting my political posts.
I’m glad you didn’t send a video. I hope nobody else falls for this.
It's not beyond them to do whatever they want with them to please the Orange Blob. It's all about money and power and buying power to enrich themselves.
You're being very smart. Any video like that, I would imagine, can be put into a data base and used for facial recognition at airports or points of entry to and from the country. No thank you. As much as they already have infiltrate our privacy with every smart device we own and all of the chip technology in our credit cards and magnetic strips on our driver's licenses why voluntarily give them anything else that they can use against us. And today I heard a normal-looking public USB-C Lightning cable can also spy on your laptop, phone, or tablet and collect our data. No, I say preserve as much privacy about yourself as you can. I wouldn't even use biometrics (fingerprint of facial recognition) to unlock my phone or laptop. I keep my cameras (facing me) on my cell phone and laptop covered when not in use.
Bob you can access BlueSky on a web browser, that is how I do it. I hate adding in more and more apps. Just open a browser and copy and paste in the link below.
Bob, I more or less stopped posting on Facebook over 10 years ago when they announced a new policy all the pictures you post on Facebook now become the property of facebook. Young parents who post pictures of their babies for grandma and grandpa to see, yup Facebook now owns your child's picture, not you, Facebook owns it because you posted it on facebook.
Yes, I believe you. Once they get the videos or photos you'd have to fight them in court and none of us could afford going up against them. Our country is going down hill more each day.
So tell me how many millions and millions of dollars have to be wasted on security for the judges? All because Trump doesn’t like the law being applied!! Someone somewhere has got to put a stop to all this wasteful spending because of Trump and Elon!! They are going to run the debt over the cliff!!
I would rather spend $ on protecting judges and not on the president or his cabinet. They should pay for their own, since they are ripping us off. tRump should be paying for his golf trips, not the public.
I agree with that since each trip to FL costs millions of dollars! Think about-jet fuel & maintenance, security details, helicopter from airfield to his MAR, salaries for pilots & staff. Money better used for funding free lunches for children and Meals on Wheels for seniors!
Oh I’m not saying they don’t. They sure do. I’m pointing out because of the bullying he’s doing it’s costing the tax payers millions of dollars. They want to take away from our seniors,veterans and children and for what?
We’ll be lucky if we get out of this by only wasting millions of dollars and not millions of lives. Trump now says he wants to turn Alcatraz into a concentration camp.
If the SCOTUS finds that Trump was violating the constitution, what can be done? SCOTUS has no police, military control? What would that plan be? Another insurrection directed by Trump?
I heard the U.S. Marshalls would be called in to do it. Funny, though, they're considered part of the Executive Branch. Yet it is believed that if called upon they WILL do it.
Most of this, in particular the standing ovations at the Supreme Court, I did not know. Only Meidas+ is getting the truth to the American people:
“the first federal judge to declare Trump’s relentless attacks on an independent bar and legal professionals unconstitutional; the first federal judge to rule Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act unconstitutional and an abuse of power; the first standing ovation in the Supreme Court led by its Justices in defense of the Rule of Law during the Trump era; the first standing ovation given to a sitting Supreme Court Justice for her withering rebuke of Trump for attacking judges; and so much more at the intersection of law and politics.”
A standing ovation by the Supreme Court Injustices is meaningless in the face of the support afforded Trump by Roberts, Alito, and Thomas, with Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh joining in that support at times. Roberts is just trying to make himself and "his" court look good. They don't care about someone standing up to Trump as SCOTUS is probably the single greatest enabler of him.
When will someone total the amount of money these unlawful executive orders are costing the American taxpayers. We are paying for the DOJ to send lawyers to court knowing there is no valid constitutional defense. These order should be rejected on the grounds that spending the taxpayers money on defending them is fraud. The DOJ should not bother going to court or spending a dime of our money on these cases. Please calculate all the costs of illegal executive orders and report that to the public.
That parade! After having said he wanted to cut the DOD budget by half! And after Trump eliminated a program that helps save a vet's home if they miss a couple of payments on a home loan rather then letting them move the payments to the end of their loan, and cutting funding and staffing levels at the VA, including psychiatric care, by insisting all doctors come into the workplace rather than do the helpful and efficient remote visits, AND canceled the suicide hotlines. How was that wasteful spending???
VETS, Canada has offered a suicide hotline in its place. Do not suffer alone. Reach out of you need it. You deserve it!
I know, right? His hand-picked, loyal cabinet heads and staff are enforcing them nonetheless. Whoever doesn't cater to him, for instance, in the DOJ, are gone.
You're not just speaking from a depressed state. These "wins" are meaningless as is SCOTUS's standing ovation. The latter is also shockingly hypocritical, just an attempt by Roberts to make "his" court look good.
Thank God for the Meidas Touch! Paying for a subscription is a still your choice however, they do have costs and are perfectly within their rights to put a "paid option" out there!
Those "paid" subscribers help keep this grass roots, wonderful, fearless, truthful group alive! It's not only not "off putting" it's necessary!
Sorry you feel that way. I'm sure that it costs a lot of money to bring us the truth. I have very little money, but supporting Meidas is the best thing I have done with my money, in one hell of a long time. Truth and fighting for our Constitution and Democracy is worth every penny of it. There are new people on the site all of the time and wouldn't know about supporting it, without the paid subscription notices.
I hear what you're saying but I'm not sure it costs much money to find out the truth, and while it's great if people CAN pay to receive the news in this way, during THESE scary times, I sure am grateful for the channels and substacks who don't charge because you'd need to follow more than one to get the best insights and guidance and not everyone can afford to do that, which then feels like we're right back to the "us and them" game, which got us in this present position, but this time it's WITHIN the one camp.
Is there any way to get Bondi disbarred? She certainly is not telling the truth and I thought lawyers had to tell the truth. Is that only in front of a judge?
Right? They sure do have a code of ethics with which they are supposed to operate. It's her blatant partisanship from a seat that is intended to be NON-partisan, for instance, her publicizing the arrest of that female Judge. Her bias is evident. And sending out what seemed to amount to a threat if anyone gave Elon or Tesla a hard time.
Has anyone heard from their congress people when phoning them? I haven't, neither Dems of Republicans. Too many Dems don't want to talk to us, either. I wonder why they thought that they elected. Many to line their pockets and ignore the public.
I've had facebook for years and received the following message when trying to logon to my account.
Confirm your identity with a video selfie
To make sure you’re a real person, we need you to record a video selfie. We’ll ask you to move your head during the recording to help us capture your face at different angles.
I'm not going to send you a video. I have no reason to believe that it would be secure. I'm 84 years old and I don't know every rule and communication restriction you have. I did not use the site to send any youtube advertisements. The Youtube videos I placed on my site were strictly political. I thought we had free speech in our country but I know now with this new administration that it's only freedom of speech for them, not everyone else.
My wife and I will miss Marketplace but I'll not, after all these years, send a video. I've checked other family members and their facebook sites have not received this video request.
I was singled out because of my political views. I'm a veteran and have done my time in Vietnam fighting for this country and I'll not have my photo or video show up on the internet, after all, you admit there is a security problem or else you wouldn't be using the excuse that you need my video to verify who I am. If you don't know me by now, you never will. I've lived many years without facebook and can live without it again.
Bob, don't submit your video. It sounds like a fishy request. Is MAGA trolling people and trying to gain your information and picture to go after you? It's great that you are being very cautious.
It's anyone's guess but I don't trust them or anyone with my privacy. One has to wonder today if they really use the video to pass on to ICE or someone at DHC. I'm a veteran and 84 yrs. old, born and raised here but apparently from the news they don't really care who they pick up.
Don’t do it! Biggest scam around!
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ABOVE jmt is SPAM
do not engage
What a crock. They are way out of line. Sorry they are doing this to you. It's probably coming from tRump. Trying to silence everyone.
Yes or scare us. I don't scare easily. I survived Vietnam and other things and I'll get by with this. I'll miss taking to family and friends but there are other methods to communicate with them. I'm 84 yrs. old and not very good with computers, which I told them, I didn't know all they're rules an such. Anyway we move on. Thanks for your support though. It's nice to see that other people still have feelings for one another.
I was asked in 2014 to provide a non-redacted government issued picture is to confirm my identity get into my FB account... told them to keep the account... this was just before Cambridge Analytica and the Russian bit troll farms stole American ID's for the 2016 "election"... also my pet account on IG was deleted last year for dangerous organizations after I posted a picture of my cat wishing her a Meowy Purrthday... FUCK FUCK
FUCK ZUCK
Don't do it. I was actually kicked off Facebook and am not allowed back on because of all the anti Trump views I posted.
Yes, they only believe in Freedom of speech if it's their speech. They are like personalized robots, trained to react to only things that make the Orange Blob happy.
I believe that's why I was kicked off but I think it's more than that. Them demanding a video selfie is meant for what??
I would ask them what the hell for?
Their reply was to verify I wasn't an AI. I called them hypocrites on our CHAT because they use AI all the time to censure us. I told them I was concerned with my security and what they would do with my video. They said they could assure me that I was talking to a person. I told them to send me a video so I could verify who I was talking to. Of course that didn't happen. Our rights mean nothing to them anymore. Only meant something when FB was getting started. Now that they are rich and powerful, we are nothing and have no say. The only thing we can do is stop using Meta things like FB and Messenger to lower their income. They make their income every time you send a FB page to your family or friends you are sending them advertisement. They have so much money it would take thousands to cancel service to put a dent in their operation.
I'm 83 and know what could be and what was. Not what is now. Thank you for your service. I don't do Facebook, but know lots of people that do. Not my thing. I am not computer savey either, but just plug along. I do have opinions about what is happening today and want to leave this world a better place than it is today. Not the whole world, mostly, the USA. God Bless.
You are welcome: I understand what you mean and I let my political feeling be known and I believe that's a major reason they blocked me. I guess the truth was just too much for them. I felt like I served my country and had a right to express my dislikes as to the direction our country is now headed. You can't explain feeling to a robot and that's how they handled my account. I agree, this isn't the kind of world most of us want to live in but the rich and powerful have bought our government with they're big money in putting the leaders in office to serve their greedy needs. I knew years ago that Campaign Finance reform was drastically needed if we were going to turn our government around where we the people control whom we want to represent us. Now we have no choice.
I am with you Bon, no way on God's green earth would I send facebook a video of myself. No way. Don't give them your phone number either.
They won't get anything from me but a hard time now. After having an account with them for at least 12 years and they done this to me. It's them trying to help this dictatorship for more power and money.
Wow! That is actually terrifying! Are they making a “list” of people to go after and round up for ElSalvador or some other God-forsaken place?! I’m even more relieved now that I left Facebook several months ago when they started censoring and deleting my political posts.
I’m glad you didn’t send a video. I hope nobody else falls for this.
It's not beyond them to do whatever they want with them to please the Orange Blob. It's all about money and power and buying power to enrich themselves.
You're being very smart. Any video like that, I would imagine, can be put into a data base and used for facial recognition at airports or points of entry to and from the country. No thank you. As much as they already have infiltrate our privacy with every smart device we own and all of the chip technology in our credit cards and magnetic strips on our driver's licenses why voluntarily give them anything else that they can use against us. And today I heard a normal-looking public USB-C Lightning cable can also spy on your laptop, phone, or tablet and collect our data. No, I say preserve as much privacy about yourself as you can. I wouldn't even use biometrics (fingerprint of facial recognition) to unlock my phone or laptop. I keep my cameras (facing me) on my cell phone and laptop covered when not in use.
Good for you!
Thanks Christy. You are right and thanks for your advice.
Bob get on BLUE SKY
Come back to me once you are on it and I will help you out about finding interesting people to follow on Blue Sky
Is Blue Sky useable on a PC? I see many others are only for smartphones and I'm not into smartphones.
Bob you can access BlueSky on a web browser, that is how I do it. I hate adding in more and more apps. Just open a browser and copy and paste in the link below.
Here is the link:
https://bsky.app/
OK, thanks I'll try it
OK, I'm on. User BoRumm
Bob, I more or less stopped posting on Facebook over 10 years ago when they announced a new policy all the pictures you post on Facebook now become the property of facebook. Young parents who post pictures of their babies for grandma and grandpa to see, yup Facebook now owns your child's picture, not you, Facebook owns it because you posted it on facebook.
Yes, I believe you. Once they get the videos or photos you'd have to fight them in court and none of us could afford going up against them. Our country is going down hill more each day.
So tell me how many millions and millions of dollars have to be wasted on security for the judges? All because Trump doesn’t like the law being applied!! Someone somewhere has got to put a stop to all this wasteful spending because of Trump and Elon!! They are going to run the debt over the cliff!!
I would rather spend $ on protecting judges and not on the president or his cabinet. They should pay for their own, since they are ripping us off. tRump should be paying for his golf trips, not the public.
I agree with that since each trip to FL costs millions of dollars! Think about-jet fuel & maintenance, security details, helicopter from airfield to his MAR, salaries for pilots & staff. Money better used for funding free lunches for children and Meals on Wheels for seniors!
I agree 💯%. I never in my life seen any stupid shit like this until Trump and his wannabe MAGA bullies came along!!
I agree because of trumpy extra security us needed. These judges who follow the rule of law and do not bend to trumpy deserve protection
Oh I’m not saying they don’t. They sure do. I’m pointing out because of the bullying he’s doing it’s costing the tax payers millions of dollars. They want to take away from our seniors,veterans and children and for what?
I agree
We’ll be lucky if we get out of this by only wasting millions of dollars and not millions of lives. Trump now says he wants to turn Alcatraz into a concentration camp.
I am SO glad to be a natural born Citizen of these United States!
And SO proud that so many justices in SO many courts are standing strong against this awful DJT administration!
I still firmly believe that the Orange Monster must be IMPEACHED by the House and ultimately CONVICTED
by the Senate, at the very least for all
his many “crimes and misdemeanors.”
Donald J. Trump is AN IDIOT
AND A CRIMINAL,
NOT A KING!
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If the SCOTUS finds that Trump was violating the constitution, what can be done? SCOTUS has no police, military control? What would that plan be? Another insurrection directed by Trump?
I heard the U.S. Marshalls would be called in to do it. Funny, though, they're considered part of the Executive Branch. Yet it is believed that if called upon they WILL do it.
Most of this, in particular the standing ovations at the Supreme Court, I did not know. Only Meidas+ is getting the truth to the American people:
“the first federal judge to declare Trump’s relentless attacks on an independent bar and legal professionals unconstitutional; the first federal judge to rule Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act unconstitutional and an abuse of power; the first standing ovation in the Supreme Court led by its Justices in defense of the Rule of Law during the Trump era; the first standing ovation given to a sitting Supreme Court Justice for her withering rebuke of Trump for attacking judges; and so much more at the intersection of law and politics.”
A standing ovation by the Supreme Court Injustices is meaningless in the face of the support afforded Trump by Roberts, Alito, and Thomas, with Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh joining in that support at times. Roberts is just trying to make himself and "his" court look good. They don't care about someone standing up to Trump as SCOTUS is probably the single greatest enabler of him.
I didn't know it either. Maybe there is hope with SCOTUS.
No, there is no hope with SCOTUS as long as Alito and Thomas are Injustices.
Stephen Miller needs to be "disappeared"!!!!!!!!!
Just make sure he is exposed to sunlight. It always works on vampires.
KBJ in Puerto Rico??? Damn, wouldve loved to attend! Next chief justice!
That's not how becoming Chief Justice works.
When will someone total the amount of money these unlawful executive orders are costing the American taxpayers. We are paying for the DOJ to send lawyers to court knowing there is no valid constitutional defense. These order should be rejected on the grounds that spending the taxpayers money on defending them is fraud. The DOJ should not bother going to court or spending a dime of our money on these cases. Please calculate all the costs of illegal executive orders and report that to the public.
Don't forget the golf trips and birthday parade.
That parade! After having said he wanted to cut the DOD budget by half! And after Trump eliminated a program that helps save a vet's home if they miss a couple of payments on a home loan rather then letting them move the payments to the end of their loan, and cutting funding and staffing levels at the VA, including psychiatric care, by insisting all doctors come into the workplace rather than do the helpful and efficient remote visits, AND canceled the suicide hotlines. How was that wasteful spending???
VETS, Canada has offered a suicide hotline in its place. Do not suffer alone. Reach out of you need it. You deserve it!
I know, right? His hand-picked, loyal cabinet heads and staff are enforcing them nonetheless. Whoever doesn't cater to him, for instance, in the DOJ, are gone.
I know I’m just speaking from my depressed state, but what good are all these court wins if he just keeps ignoring them? *sigh* 😞
I suspect that at some point he will not be able to ignore them.
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Historical FACT—
ONCE YOU PEACEFULLY INSTALL A FASCIST, YOU CANNOT PEACEFULLY REMOVE THEM
The “Untrustworthy Box of American Norms” are no match for a blatantly corrupt —out of control lawless Russian backed cabal….
aka The Republican Party—
Enemies Of The State
Why are they not treated as such?
Fighting GOP corruption using the institutions Democrats & WTP have allowed GOP to corrupt is nonsensical
It doesn’t matter how many court cases GOP loses when there is NO follow up of accountability-
Republicans have already successfully participated or been complicit in an insurrection w/the consequences being rewarding them with seats of power
Do I blve in the usual “American Judicial Process”
JFC
No intelligent adult would blve in a process that has failed the Country for over a decade
Whatever the courts say at this point is merely laughed at by Republicans…
Maddow:
DON’T LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAY
WATCH WHAT THEY DO
You're not just speaking from a depressed state. These "wins" are meaningless as is SCOTUS's standing ovation. The latter is also shockingly hypocritical, just an attempt by Roberts to make "his" court look good.
deleted my FB as Zuck is supporting con man with $$$$$$
Isn't it unconstitutional to release private information of Social Security recipients? Especially to a non-citizen billionaire thief??
Bad people made bad lawyers and even the smartest can be bad.
phony emergency like war... so we cant vote
You put out too much about getting people to go with a paid subscription. It’s off-putting and tends to make me ignore all your posts.
Dude, if you like it, don’t come here, this is an important way for them to stay in business!
Several substacks I contribute to always thank me at the beginning of the post.
Thank God for the Meidas Touch! Paying for a subscription is a still your choice however, they do have costs and are perfectly within their rights to put a "paid option" out there!
Those "paid" subscribers help keep this grass roots, wonderful, fearless, truthful group alive! It's not only not "off putting" it's necessary!
They need to make a living too. You don't have to pay to watch. As little as $5 can be given.
Sorry you feel that way. I'm sure that it costs a lot of money to bring us the truth. I have very little money, but supporting Meidas is the best thing I have done with my money, in one hell of a long time. Truth and fighting for our Constitution and Democracy is worth every penny of it. There are new people on the site all of the time and wouldn't know about supporting it, without the paid subscription notices.
I hear what you're saying but I'm not sure it costs much money to find out the truth, and while it's great if people CAN pay to receive the news in this way, during THESE scary times, I sure am grateful for the channels and substacks who don't charge because you'd need to follow more than one to get the best insights and guidance and not everyone can afford to do that, which then feels like we're right back to the "us and them" game, which got us in this present position, but this time it's WITHIN the one camp.
Be well!🇺🇲💪🏼❤️🔥🙏
Is there any way to get Bondi disbarred? She certainly is not telling the truth and I thought lawyers had to tell the truth. Is that only in front of a judge?
Right? They sure do have a code of ethics with which they are supposed to operate. It's her blatant partisanship from a seat that is intended to be NON-partisan, for instance, her publicizing the arrest of that female Judge. Her bias is evident. And sending out what seemed to amount to a threat if anyone gave Elon or Tesla a hard time.
Do any of these names raise any comparison to Trump’s reign?
Putin, Kim Yung Un, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet…..I think so….
Has anyone heard from their congress people when phoning them? I haven't, neither Dems of Republicans. Too many Dems don't want to talk to us, either. I wonder why they thought that they elected. Many to line their pockets and ignore the public.