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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Facebook Continues To Block, Restrict And Suppress Trinity Mount Ministries - Part II
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Thursday, September 7, 2023
Facebook Continues To Block, Restrict And Suppress Trinity Mount Ministries
By Brett Fletcher - Founder of Trinity Mount Ministries
Facebook Admin continues to block, restrict and suppress Trinity Mount Ministries from:
1. Sharing AMBER Alerts and updates.
2. Sharing child safety information.
3. Sharing missing children posters and updates.
4. Sharing police and public safety alerts and updates.
4. Sharing Community events and services.
5. Sharing posts of faith and inspiration.
6. Sharing news articles and reports.
Facebook treats their users as if they were little children, attempting to punish their disobedience with restrictions and time outs. I've been to Facebook HQ several times for paid research sessions, being surprised by how young the Facebook staff and employees were, which might explain their rules, policies and procedures and how they are implemented. Their disciplinary actions cause laughter, anger and disbelief.
In order to maintain their control over free speech and/or anything that goes against their agenda - blocking, restricting and suppression[a] are their modus operandi.[b] Facebook is not in the business of respecting people's rights and can block, restrict, suppress or remove anything that they want to without any repercussions. That is just they way their culture is and I accept that. Nevertheless, my hope is that Facebook Admin might read this without bias, recognizing what type of content they are blocking, restricting and/or suppressing (such as posts to help and protect missing and exploited children), and reconsider some of their policies that cause more harm than help.
Brett Fletcher - Founder of Trinity Mount Ministries
[a] the action of suppressing something such as an activity or publication.
[b] a particular way or method of doing something, especially one that is characteristic or well-established.
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Sunday, December 4, 2022
@elonmusk by Brett Fletcher @TrinityMount
@elonmusk
I think it is hilarious how the world of social media seems very upset since the brilliant and wealthy man, Elon Musk, purchased Twitter! "That’s it! I'm leaving Twitter!" Twitter is ruined!" "Advertisers are leaving Twitter!" Etc., ad nauseum!
The only thing I know: When I founded Trinity Mount Ministries back in 2011, the two main social media platforms that would be instrumental for the cause of sharing information about Missing and exploited children, related news articles and child safety content would be Twitter and Facebook. Now, as we are approaching 2023, (12 years later) this remains true. No other social media platforms comes close to the combination of Twitter and Facebook, in relation to Trinity Mount Ministries, Trinity Mount Global Missing Kids and Trinity Mount International Missing Kids.
So, leave these platforms if you must... I will continue to utilize these valuable tools for the above-mentioned cause: helping to find missing and exploited children, domestically and internationally, as well as promoting child safety. I hardly think Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg are too concerned about anybody's departure(s) from their social media platforms. My guess - these two platforms will do whatever necessary to stay afloat.
The only difference I've noticed on Twitter: it's interesting and even exciting to some extent. I've always believed and maintain this to be true: if you don't like what someone shares: ignore it, fight against it, block it, protest it... though, a platform is there for you to use as well, as you see fit...to some extent. I believe in moderation as well as free speech. They can co-exist... when clear, cool and sound heads prevail.
Brett Fletcher, Founder of Trinity Mount Ministries
@TrinityMount https://www.twitter.com/TrinityMount
Friday, March 25, 2022
Meta Finally Addresses Online Safety Concerns For Children
Instagram launched its new Family Center last Wednesday, a service intended to make the platform safer for teens.
The Family Center consolidates Instagram’s online safety resources into one convenient location. It hosts an education hub, conversation guides for discussing online safety, and external resources from The Trevor Project and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Parents now have a dashboard allowing them to monitor any associated Instagram profiles. The tool records account activity and can set time limits on account usage.
Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, explained the service is the first step in a longer-term journey to develop intuitive supervision tools, informed by experts, teens and parents.”
Last year, Instagram and Facebook took heavy criticism for their lack of protection for young users, which often caused poor mental health outcomes, according to reporting from Mashable.
The company hopes that the new Family Center will push users towards healthier usage habits.
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Facebook - Blocking Missing Children Posters and Child Safety Posts...AGAIN!
Now - this message is being shared on LinkedIn, Twitter and the Trinity Mount Ministries Blog:
Dear Facebook Administration - thank you for - once again - blocking Trinity Mount Ministries for the next week:
What did I do wrong this time? As if you're actually going to treat me like a paying client rather than an algorithm. Do you not like my posts of missing children posters and child safety posts?
Also, I've been trying to pay my Facebook ads bill for months - you tell me in one of your automatic messages that I don't have authority to make my payment?
Once again, Facebook is attacking our efforts to help find missing children and protect children by promoting child safety.
Like before - when you restricted me from posting Trinity Mount Ministries alerts and notifications, I will publish this issue to multimedia outlets and everywhere else I can post it.
Once again, it seems like Facebook Administration is against the safety and well-being of children...what a shame.
Brett Fletcher, MHRS, MS.Psy, Th.G - Founder of Trinity Mount Ministries
PS - This is no way to treat a client that has spent thousands of dollars on Facebook ads. I wish your boss - Mark Zuckerberg could read this. But, no, that won't happen. I'm sure he's too busy to deal with your many mistakes throughout the many years concerning banning the efforts of Trinity Mount Ministries to make a difference in the lives of children locally, statewide, nationally and globally, as well as our efforts to combat Child Trafficking and promote child safety. Once again, nice job Facebook.
Sunday, December 15, 2019
To Facebook Administration - Stop Blocking Missing Children Posters!
To Facebook Administration,
Once again, you've blocked my ability to help missing and exploited children and to share child safety resources. I will send this message on all of my social media accounts (like I've done before), making thousands of people aware of Facebook's actions, rejecting my ability to help missing and exploited children through my organization, Trinity Mount Ministries. I will continue to post this message until this issue is resolved.
Facebook fails all of their users by blocking them from posting without telling them why, not offering an avenue to contact Facebook and address this issue and other issues, etc., which makes Facebook, overall, a very unpleasant experience. This is one reason you are losing users in large numbers, as well as all of the privacy issues, being cold and distant from the users - and inturn - causing anxiety and depression for no good reason.
Facebook - please get your act together.
Brett Fletcher, MHRS, MS.Psy, Th.G, Founder of Trinity Mount Ministries
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#Facebook #FacebookAdmin #FacebookPolicies #Unfair #Blocking #MissingChildren #ChildSafety #OnlineSafety #TrinityMountMinistries #BrettFletcher
Saturday, September 7, 2019
Trinity Mount Ministries Shares International Missing Children Posts - Here's The Reason Why
Trinity Mount Ministries is located in California, yet shares missing children posts globally. Child Sex Trafficking is a global problem and must be confronted and combatted globally.
A missing child could end up anywhere on this planet. Let's look everywhere for each and every missing child until they are located.
This is why Trinity Mount Ministries networks with international organizations and child advocates. Every missing child should be a global concern.
Brett Fletcher, MHRS, MS.Psy, Th.G, Founder of Trinity Mount Ministries
Thank you for your support!
Please Donate To Help Our Efforts!
https://fundrazr.com/missingchildren
Trinity Mount Ministries is located in California, yet shares missing children posts globally. Child Sex Trafficking is a global problem and must be confronted and combatted globally.
A missing child could end up anywhere on this planet. Let's look everywhere for each and every missing child until they are located.
This is why Trinity Mount Ministries networks with international organizations and child advocates. Every missing child should be a global concern.
Brett Fletcher, MHRS, MS.Psy, Th.G, Founder of Trinity Mount Ministries
Contact Information:
Address -
1200Franklin Mall 617, Santa Clara, California
Phone and Voicemail -
(408) 469-0422
Find Us On -
Blogger -
https://trinitymountministries.blogspot.com
Twitter - @TrinityMount
https://www.twitter.com/trinitymount
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/trinitymount
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/trinitymount
Sunday, August 4, 2019
Trinity Mount Ministries - International Posts
Trinity Mount Ministries is located in California, yet shares missing children posts globally. Child Sex Trafficking is a global problem and must be confronted and combatted globally.
A missing child could end up anywhere on this planet. Let's look everywhere for each and every missing child until they are located.
This is why Trinity Mount Ministries networks with international organizations and child advocates. Every missing child should be a global concern.
Brett Fletcher, MHRS, MS.Psy, Th.G, Founder of Trinity Mount Ministries
Thank you for your support!
Please Donate To Help Our Efforts!
https://fundrazr.com/missingchildren
Trinity Mount Ministries is located in California, yet shares missing children posts globally. Child Sex Trafficking is a global problem and must be confronted and combatted globally.
A missing child could end up anywhere on this planet. Let's look everywhere for each and every missing child until they are located.
This is why Trinity Mount Ministries networks with international organizations and child advocates. Every missing child should be a global concern.
Brett Fletcher, MHRS, MS.Psy, Th.G, Founder of Trinity Mount Ministries
Contact Information:
Address -
1200Franklin Mall 617, Santa Clara, California
Phone and Voicemail -
(408) 469-0422
Find Us On -
Blogger -
https://trinitymountministries.blogspot.com
Twitter - @TrinityMount
https://www.twitter.com/trinitymount
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/trinitymount
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/trinitymount
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Facebook Blocks Trinity Mount Ministries Blog - Missing Children Posters / Child Safety
By Brett Fletcher
UPDATE - Facebook blocks Trinity Mount Ministries blog: Please read this report.
The Trinity Mount Ministries blog posts that Facebook is continuing to block can be viewed at -
Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/trinitymount
and
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/trinitymount
Brett Fletcher, MHRS, MS.Psy, Th.G, Founder of Trinity Mount Ministries
Facebook continues to block Trinity Mount Ministries blog posts: Latest post blocked - Trinity Mount Ministries - DOJ - PROJECT Safe Childhood - Justice News
Project Safe Childhood is a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice.
UPDATE - Facebook blocking Trinity Mount Ministries blog:
1. LinkedIn - https://www.twitter.com/trinitymount and Twitter - https://www.linkedin.com/in/trinitymount - allow the posts that Facebook is blocking.
2. The Trinity Mount Ministries blog that Facebook is blocking only shares posts concerned with helping missing and exploited children as well as child safety in general.
3. Facebook claims people on Facebook find Trinity Mount Ministries blog as abusive :
Facebook to Trinity Mount Ministries:
[Error
Your message couldn't be sent because it includes content that other people on Facebook have reported as abusive.]
5. This issue has been brought to the attention of Facebook administration numerous times over the past few days since the banning of Trinity Mount Ministries blog posts. They have yet to address this issue.
6. Trinity Mount Ministries has posted their blog posts since 2011. Trinity Mount Ministries is a paying customer to Facebook for advertising: Facebook have offered paid advertising for the Trinity Mount Ministries blog posts that they blocked as being inappropriate.
7. Facebook is the only social media outlet that blocks Trinity Mount Ministries blog posts, which are concerning the protection, safety and well-being of children, as well as offering support to parents and families of missing children.
Trinity Mount Ministries will continue to bring the actions of Facebook regarding Trinity Mount Ministries blog posts being blocked. Facebook was established on Facebook since 2011. Since that time to the present Trinity Mount Ministries have posted blog posts on Facebook, but recently they are being blocked from posting without explanation from Facebook why this is happening.
Trinity Mount Ministries blog will continue to bring awareness to missing and exploited children as well as provide child safety reports and information, regardless of the actions of Facebook towards Trinity Mount Ministries.
The Trinity Mount Ministries blog posts that Facebook is continuing to block can be viewed at -
Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/trinitymount and LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/trinitymount
Brett Fletcher, MHRS, MS.Psy, Th.G, Founder of Trinity Mount Ministries
Thursday, August 2, 2018
Facebook ‘ignoring child safety risks’
Mark Bridge, Technology Correspondent

• Facebook has stopped “hundreds of thousands” of apps from accessing user data after developers failed to resubmit them for review following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It is understood that many were defunct.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Sex Traffickers Are Using Social Media To Target Children
Your personal data isn’t the only thing that’s vulnerable on Facebook.
The rise of social media has been a boon for sex traffickers, making it easier than ever for pimps to target, groom and sell your children, top law-enforcement officials say.
“These predators are watching, and they’re listening. They’re friending. They’re seeing, ‘Oh, she’s not happy with school,’ ‘Oh, he’s upset against his parents,’ ‘Oh, he has issues with his sexuality,’ or, ‘She’s having problems with her friends,’ ” says Inspector Jim Klein, commander of the NYPD’s Vice Enforcement Unit.
“Next thing you know, these predators pick up on this, and they start becoming friendly to the point they’re now separating these victims from everybody that’s important to them.”
Some traffickers don’t even hide what they do.
“We’ve had cases where our pimps are . . . friends with [their victims’] relatives, and they’re posting about pimping out girls and making money,” says Queens prosecutor Jessica Melton.
All they need is a cheap ad and a burner phone.
The classified-ads site Backpage.com was seized and shuttered by the feds this month, but when it was in business, 600 to 800 ads were posted for “prostitutes” in New York state each day, according to the NYPD.
Now Backpage’s rivals are moving to fill the void.
“There are multiple sites that are going up on a daily basis,” said Lt. Christopher Sharpe, head of the NYPD human-trafficking team.
Making matters worse, with transactions taking place on a screen, johns are becoming more callous, says James Goward, chief of the Criminal Enterprise Bureau of the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.
“It’s available for you like getting food delivered by Seamless,” he says.
Monday, November 13, 2017
Facebook identifies alleged child rapist; Bothell man arrested
Thomas Mahoney, 24, appeared by video in a Snohomish County courtroom Wednesday afternoon, hours after being booked into the Snohomish County Jail in Everett --- on suspicion of child rape and communicating with a minor for immoral purposes.
According to Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office documents, Mahoney met a then-13 year old girl on Facebook last year.
In September 2016, “when she was 14 years of age, she met with him in Bothell, and they had sex” at his home, according to investigators.
The documents reveal the girl’s family moved out of state, so “Mahoney travelled to California” in May and August of 2017, when he allegedly raped her again.
According to investigators, “Mahoney videotaped” the encounters.
Those videos - and explicit Facebook messages between Mahoney and the girl - are now evidence.
In court, Judge Tam Bui ordered Mahoney’s bail be set at $150,000 and issued a protection order to keep him away from the girl should he bail out.
“I’m not going to specifically delineate the kinds of contact, whether it be electronic, person, phone, whatever method,” Judge Bui told Mahoney.
“It is no contact.”
Mahoney has no criminal history.
He claimed in documents the girl told him she was 19 years old.
However, the girl's mother told KIRO 7 Mahoney always knew the girl's real age and pursued her anyway.
Facebook has turned over to investigators messages where Mahoney allegedly refers to the girl as “this hot little 14 year old” while describing their sexual contact.
The mom says her daughter has been traumatized by the rapes.
Mahoney has not yet been charged.
Saturday, November 11, 2017
Facebook and New Zealand Police Team Up to find Missing Children
Facebook and New Zealand Police are teaming up to launch a system for finding missing children.
The Amber Alerts system will be activated if a child is missing, and considered at serious risk of harm.
Once it's activated, people in the targeted search area will receive a notification at the top of their Facebook news feed, which they can also choose to share with their friends.
The alert will include a photo of the child, and any important information about the circumstances in which they went missing.
Facebook director of trust and safety Emily Vacher said all it took for police to activate the alert was sending an email to a dedicated Facebook email address that was monitored 24/7.
"As soon as we get the alert from the police, we prepare the notice.
"People care so deeply about the children in their communities, that really, this was just something that Facebook could assist with by building a tool."
Vacher was an FBI agent on the child abduction team, before leaving to work for Facebook.
She said Facebook was the perfect way to deliver messages that could be life-saving.
"We wanted to create a tool where the maximum number of people who would be able to help could access the information.
"So rather than sharing by individual people, it's a more formal system."
Police commissioner Mike Bush said that child abductions were rare in New Zealand, but child regularly went missing from home and were considered at serious risk of harm.
"Having the Amber Alerts system means we now have another useful tool to quickly contact the public in emergency situations.
"If we can use it to help save even just one child, then it is a system worth having."
It's a tool Robyn Jensen wishes had been available when her 14-year-old daughter went missing in 1983.
Kirsa Jensen rode her horse to the beach at Awatoto, Napier, on September 1, 1983.
She never returned home and, despite extensive police inquiries, has never been found.
Robyn said the story might have been different if a tool like the Amber Alert had existed then.
"Ensuring people quickly learn about a missing child is of utmost importance.
"[This] is a wonderful way to spread the word and widen the circle of people watching out for a missing child.
"To lose a child is devastating but what makes it extraordinarily hard is just not knowing what has happened.
"I remain locked into that moment in time when Kirsa went missing."
The new tool was launched at 10am today at Police National Headquarters in Wellington.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Facebook helped find missing kids - Hobart, Tasmania:
TWO young Hobart children were found safe and well at the weekend after family members posted photos of them on social media and asked friends for information.
Inspector David Plumpton said police started their investigations as soon as they were told of the two missing children and at the same time family members posted details on Facebook.
Insp Plumpton said it was important to get the message out quickly, particularly in relation to children. “Posts asking for help to find missing people really engage with the community because people want to help,’’ he said.
Social media is proving a powerful tool for police in tracking missing people.
Last week’s National Missing Persons Week campaign in Tasmania reached a massive audience on Facebook, resulting in two arrests. The campaign was seen by tens of thousands of Tasmanians.
The campaign encouraged readers to follow their instincts when reporting information and started with individual photos of missing people on the popular Tas Police Facebook page.
The post on missing Latrobe man Andrew Jarman, who failed to return from a bicycle ride in August 2012, reached nearly 110,000 Facebook followers.
And the post that offered a $50,000 reward for information into the disappearance of Launceston man Christopher Watkins reached more than 100,000 followers.
The average reach of the eight missing people cases was more than 60,000 Facebook followers.
Insp Plumpton said the missing persons campaign aimed to dispel the myth that people had to wait 24 hours before reporting someone missing.
More charges are expected to be laid in the disappearance and suspected murder of Mr Watkins after police charged two men with conspiracy in connection with his disappearance.
Inspector John King said the campaign and offer of a reward for information provided fresh information that led to the conspiracy charges.
Anyone who has information they feel is relevant to a missing persons case is asked to call police on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers anonymously on 1800 333 000.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Seoul police, Facebook sign agreement for missing-child alert:
Friday, July 17, 2015
Do Your Homework Before Sharing “Missing Person” Posts:
by DEBORAH EDWARDS-ONORO
Do Your Homework
It’s one thing to circulate a current Amber Alert, ensuring that all of the information is there, that it comes from a proper source (ie don’t just reshare, CHECK THE LINKS), and that the answer is to call police, not just a random number.
- Date
- Location
Be Responsible
Friday, June 19, 2015
Missing child alerts to become part of all Dutch Facebook timelines:
Source: Missing child alerts on Dutch Facebook timelines
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Social Media Helps Find Missing Seagrove Children:
Social Media Helps Find Missing Seagrove Children:
Monday, October 29, 2012
Facebook used to kidnap, traffic Indonesian girls:
Facebook used to kidnap, traffic Indonesian girls
The Associated Press
In this Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 photo, Indonesian youths browse at an internet cafe in Jakarta, Indonesia. There are growing numbers of incidents involving internet social media networks being used as a mean for children trafficking in Indonesia, at least eight reported this month alone of young girls being abducted and enslaved by men who approached them randomly on Facebook, raising concerns that the overall number of trafficked children remains grossly underestimated in the sprawling archipelago of 240 million. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Facebook Dodges FTC Fines Over Privacy After Google Gets Nailed :
Facebook Dodges FTC Fines Over Privacy After Google Gets Nailed
The FTC says Facebook must obtain consumers’ consent before sharing their information beyond established privacy settings, following a public comment period on the proposed settlement. Charges that Facebook deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their info on Facebook private, then allowing it to be shared and made public (repeatedly) have now been resolved.
Facebook is required to obtain biennial privacy audits from an independent third party.
The Commission vote to approve the final order was 3-1-1, with Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch dissenting and Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen not participating.
Following is the FTC’s statement in its entirety (authored by Chairman Jon D. Leibowitz and Commissioners Edith Ramirez and Julie Brill):
The final consent order in In re Facebook, Inc. that we approve today advances the privacy interests of the nearly one billion Facebook users around the world by requiring the company to live up to its promises and submit to privacy audits. Notably, Facebook will be subject to civil penalties of up to $16,000 for each violation of the order. We intend to monitor closely Facebook’s compliance with the order and will not hesitate to seek civil penalties for any violations.
We write to address the arguments raised by our colleague, Commissioner Rosch, who opposes final approval of the order. One of his objections relates to the extent to which the order would reach the activities of third-party “apps” downloaded by consumers while using the Facebook platform. The Order broadly prohibits Facebook from misrepresenting in any manner, expressly or by implication, the extent to which it maintains the privacy or security of any information it collects from or about consumers. For a company whose entire business model rests on collecting, maintaining, and sharing people’s information, this prohibition touches on virtually every aspect of Facebook’s operations. Further, the Order sets forth clear examples of how this broad prohibition would apply in connection with apps, by prohibiting Facebook from misrepresenting the extent to which it makes its users’ information accessible to apps; or the steps it takes to verify the privacy or security protections that apps provide.
A statement from Facebook about an app’s conduct may well amount to a promise that Facebook is taking steps to assure the level of privacy or security that the app provides for consumers’ information.
These provisions make clear that Facebook will be liable for conduct by apps that contradicts Facebook’s promises about the privacy or security practices of these apps. Commissioner Rosch also opposes the consent order because it includes a denial by Facebook of the substantive allegations in the Commission’s complaint.
Based on this denial, Commissioner Rosch asserts that the Commission lacks the requisite “reason to believe” that Facebook violated Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act and a basis to conclude that the settlement is in “the interest of the public.”
We strongly disagree with Commissioner Rosch’s view that if the Commission allows a respondent to deny the complaint’s substantive allegations, or use language that is tantamount to a denial, there is no basis for the Commission to conclude that the respondent engaged in unlawful conduct or that the consent is in the public interest. As Commissioner Rosch is aware, an extensive investigation and detailed staff recommendation has given the Commission a strong—not just a reasonable—basis to issue its complaint in this case and to conclude that both the complaint and the resulting settlement are in the public interest. Here, as in all enforcement cases, it is the evidentiary record developed by FTC staff during the course of its investigation, not any ensuing settlement agreement, that forms the basis for action by the Commission. A respondent’s denial of liability in a consent agreement does not diminish staff’s extensive investigation or the ability of the Commission to find a reasonable basis to finalize a settlement or to enforce an order that results from settlement negotiations. Moreover, express denials of liability are consistent with the Commission’s current Rules of Practice.
We view the final consent order in this matter to be a major step forward for consumer privacy and hereby approve it.
While we do not believe that a respondent’s denial of liability is reason to reject a settlement that is in the public interest, we share Commissioner Rosch’s desire to avoid any possible public misimpression that the Commission obtains settlements when it lacks reason to believe that the alleged conduct occurred. We commend Commissioner Rosch for focusing our attention on the issue; going forward, express denials will be strongly disfavored. We also appreciate Commissioner Rosch’s suggestion that consent order language that the respondent “neither admits nor denies” a complaint’s allegations may very well be a more effective way to ensure that there are no misimpressions about the Commission’s process. Accordingly, we will consider in the coming months whether a modification to the Commission Rules of Practice is warranted.
Do you think this is a fair settlement, or did Facebook get off too easy?
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