Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg over the weekend wrote about sexual harassment and what companies should do about it in the wake of the many revelations involving harassment or assault at workplaces in industries galore. But her own company has been banning women for their reaction to such scandals.
Female comedians and other women say their Facebook accounts have been suspended for posting “men are scum,” and similar comments. The issue is big enough that one of the comediennes has created a website to collect the stories of the women who have been banned.
Boston-based comedian Kayla Avery, creator of Facebook Jailed, is serving out the end of her third 30-day ban from the world’s largest social network, the Daily Beast reports. Avery said she’s been banned for, among other things, responding to trolls on her page.
“There was one guy who was threatening to find my house and beat me up,” she said, according to the Daily Beast. “I got banned before I could even successfully report it.” She said she had posted “men continue to be the worst.” Read the full story at Silicon Beat.
