Kratom Ban on FB

[nltsaved]

No longer allowed to promote kratom or any non medical drug or perceived medical drugs. No contest, mentioning of prices or sales of kratom.
Under violence and criminal behavior
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Regulated Goods

[e_poison]

Source for this? Not getting any info out of google.

[nltsaved]

Facebook guidelines just look at Facebook and the Kratom Community they're banning pages left and right

5. Regulated Goods
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and compliance with common legal restrictions, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, or trade non-medical drugs, pharmaceutical drugs, and marijuana. We also prohibit the purchase, sale, gifting, exchange, and transfer of firearms, including firearm parts or ammunition, between private individuals on Facebook. Some of these items are not regulated everywhere; however, because of the borderless nature of our community, we try to enforce our policies as consistently as possible. Firearm stores and online retailers may promote items available for sale off of our services as long as those retailers comply with all applicable laws and regulations. We allow discussions about sales of firearms and firearm parts in stores or by online retailers and advocating for changes to firearm regulation. Regulated goods that are not prohibited by our Community Standards may be subject to our more stringent Commerce Policies.
Do not post:
Content about non-medical drugs (other than alcohol or tobacco) that

Coordinates or encourages others to sell non-medical drugs
Depicts, admits to, or promotes sales of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content or their associates
Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use of non-medical drugs
Admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context

Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs. This includes content that

Mentions or depicts marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean any of the following:
Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade
Asking the audience to buy
Listing the price
Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
Stating interest in buying the product, or
Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
This applies to both individual pieces of content and Pages and Groups primarily dedicated to the sale of marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs

Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals. This includes content that

Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives and a product unrelated to firearms, and
Makes an attempt to sell or transfer including any of the following, unless posted by an entity representing a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand:
Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade
Asking the audience to buy
Listing the price or noting that the product is free
Encouraging contact about the product either by
Explicitly asking to be contacted
Including any type of contact information
Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade

For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Content posted by a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives. This includes content that

Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or transfer and
Asks the audience to buy the product, or
Lists the price or notes that the product is free, or
Encourages contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information

[Azrael]

I have been put in FB jail for posting nothing more than a strain list. In fact the last time I was put in FB Jail the very next day one of the "promoted posts" was a Kats Botanicals post. I have several accounts and as I pointed out the hypocrisy of FB banning me for a strain list while at the same time banning me from posting, thast account was than placed in FB Jail. This isn't a new thing by any means.

FBkratomban30daysJail.jpg

[BallzDeep9]

Just heard another good vendor, Daniel Johnson, got a temporary BAN yesterday ...

Others have been banned permanently. Harry Weisberg KOG -- Justin Kats was, but got his restored somehow. 8K in his Group.

[krattie]

I hopped off of Facebook almost a year ago. I always felt like there was something sinister about it. They probably have all of my data for all the years up until I deactivated it but at least I'm not unknowingly handing them information any more.

After I deleted my account (it's probably still on some server in it's entirety) I incessantly got emails and even texts from them asking when I was coming back. Ugh it felt like I had ended a long term relationship. Finally, I somehow deleted my number from their records (tbh I forget how I did this since I had "deactivated" my account) and they stopped harassing me.

I hate how Facebook parades around as a service that everyone needs to stay connected to friends and family but in reality they're just looking for money like everyone else.

"If a service is free then chances are you are the product." I forget who said that but it stuck with me.

Rant over.

[whiffypants]

Nah, good rant. I never got on it back when it was hot -- for someone who prefers to maintain relationships more directly (in-person, phone, email, letters) it always seemed a strange and distant kind of thing to me -- and then never regretting it has turned into open gratitude over the last few years. Not knocking anyone who's on it, different strokes certainly, but for myself I think I've spared more than a few unpleasant moments -- not to mention brain cells -- by giving it a miss entirely.

"If a service is free then chances are you are the product." I forget who said that but it stuck with me.

I hear ya. Myself, I prefer the "Soylent Green is PEOPLE!" quote when thinking of FB.

[herbalhippie]

In fact the last time I was put in FB Jail the very next day one of the "promoted posts" was a Kats Botanicals post..

FBkratomban30daysJail.jpg

I don't spend much time on FB but when I'm scrolling it seems like half the things in my feed are Kat's posts. I don't even think I liked that page, why are they there? Anyway, there are an awful lot of them.

[MetalMamaRocks]

Nah, good rant. I never got on it back when it was hot -- for someone who prefers to maintain relationships more directly (in-person, phone, email, letters) it always seemed a strange and distant kind of thing to me -- and then never regretting it has turned into open gratitude over the last few years. Not knocking anyone who's on it, different strokes certainly, but for myself I think I've spared more than a few unpleasant moments -- not to mention brain cells -- by giving it a miss entirely.

"If a service is free then chances are you are the product." I forget who said that but it stuck with me.

I hear ya. Myself, I prefer the "Soylent Green is PEOPLE!" quote when thinking of FB.

Ugh. I hate Facebook. I'm the only person I know that has never had an account, except for you Whiffy! Even my 80 year old mom has one.

[WotAnAtti2d]

I never created an account for FB. I don't feel that I need to puke up every day of my life to the whole internet, nor do I need/wish to keep up with the Joneses.

[BlendsAreMyFriends]

I dropped off for almost 2 years but then went back to see pictures of my nephew. His parents and their families totally bought into the "friends and family" thing.