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Facebook bans writer for using slice of Emmental cheese as his profile photo

A WRITER is cheesed off with Facebook — after it banned him for using a slice of Emmental as his profile photo.

Ivan Pope, 59, has been locked out of his account for two weeks after putting up a cheesy avatar for a laugh.

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Ivan Pope, 59, has been locked out of his Facebook account for two weeks after putting up a cheesy avatar for a laugh[/caption]

He said: “One of the reasons they can throw you off is for pretending to be someone else.

“I probably put the cheese avatar up a day before. It was just a slice of Emmental.

“It looked like a face — a bit like a polar bear. It was just a silly thing.”

He said Facebook asked him to enter a code and send a photo of his ID to prove his identity. But he claims to have heard nothing since.

Tech-savvy Ivan, from Brighton, founded two magazines about the internet and coined the term “cybercafe” in the 1990s.

But he said: “I feel helpless. There’s nothing I can do. I understand Facebook need to police their site because some people do bad things.

Ivan says Facebook asked him to enter a code and send a photo of his ID to prove his identity


“But I’ve been on it for years. There were no arguments.”

The dad went on: “I used it more seriously to chat to my brother who had a stroke. He can’t talk any more, so we used it to video chat.”

Facebook said they were looking into the matter.

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Ivan poses with a slice of cheese[/caption]

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