First, in California, a public agency's Facebook page is considered "public record." For a couple of years, I read the COVID propaganda posts on my California county's Public Health Dept.'s Facebook page, and posted (very polite, citation-filled) comments with "corrective information." (Dang, I did a good j…
First, in California, a public agency's Facebook page is considered "public record." For a couple of years, I read the COVID propaganda posts on my California county's Public Health Dept.'s Facebook page, and posted (very polite, citation-filled) comments with "corrective information." (Dang, I did a good job!) My county's public health employees could neither delete my comments nor block me from commenting -- because the page was "public record." People on "our side" should use this "public record" feature to plague the propaganda posters with corrective comments, eh?
And now for a little haiku (technically a senryu) I wrote and posted as a comment on that public health dept. page:
Two things that bear repeating:
First, in California, a public agency's Facebook page is considered "public record." For a couple of years, I read the COVID propaganda posts on my California county's Public Health Dept.'s Facebook page, and posted (very polite, citation-filled) comments with "corrective information." (Dang, I did a good job!) My county's public health employees could neither delete my comments nor block me from commenting -- because the page was "public record." People on "our side" should use this "public record" feature to plague the propaganda posters with corrective comments, eh?
And now for a little haiku (technically a senryu) I wrote and posted as a comment on that public health dept. page:
public health people:
little clay soldiers
salute the absurd