Facebook: “We’ve removed Australia because it goes against our community standards”
A local Australian resident reacts to the recent Facebook controversy (Reddit)
Aussies woke up to a terrifying new reality yesterday when Facebook banned the entire country from its platform.
“I tried to log into my bloody account this morning, and the bastards had me blocked. Crikey and all that,” said Oliver Bushman, a local Crocodile Dundee impersonator.
While Australian politicians and leaders claim the country-wide social media blackout has to do with a new law governing how Facebook can use news snippets on its platform, Mark Zuckerberg set the record straight.
“I recently visited an Outback Steakhouse, just to see how the 99 percenters live, and I was shocked by what I saw. That’s when I realized that Facebook has no place for such buffoonery. It stands against everything our holy Community Standards represent,” said the Facebook CEO/pope.
“The bloke’s got a few roos loose in the top paddock. He’s lower than a snake’s belly! May his chooks turn into emus and kick his dunny down,” hollered Jack Jones, bartender at The Bloody Ripper Chunder bar, about Zuckerberg. An interpreter wasn’t available, but reporters on the scene assured us Jones’ wild rambling wasn’t a compliment.
