Posted October 4, 2016 4:13 pm by Comments

By Beth Baumann

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Yesterday, social media bully giant Facebook launched a new feature: the Facebook Marketplace for iPhone and Android users.

The Marketplace is designed so users can buy, sell and trade goods on the social platform. While this idea is not a new invention – private groups for buying, selling and bartering already exist – this is the official area Facebook created for this type of interaction.

According to their Commerce Policy, items, products or services sold on Facebook must comply with our Community Standards as well as the Commerce Policies. Sale of the following is prohibited on Facebook:
  1. Illegal, prescription or recreational drugs;
  2. Tobacco items and related paraphernalia;
  3. Unsafe supplements;
  4. Weapons, ammunition or explosives;
  5. Animals;
  6. Adult items or services;
  7. Alcohol;
  8. Adult health items;
  9. Real money gambling services;
  10. Goods, items or posts that we determine may be or are fraudulent, misleading, deceptive or offensive;
  11. Items or products with overtly sexualized positioning;
  12. Non-physical items are prohibited on Facebook Marketplace, including but not limited to services, subscriptions, digital products, or rentals.

But it didn’t take long for people to try to sell goods that were clearly against Facebook’s terms of use, including but not limited to: sex, drugs, guns, body parts and animals.

And it worked.

According to Facebook’s Director of Project Management Mary Ku, a “technical …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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