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Facebook shuts down anti-quarantine protests at states' request


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2020 Apr 20, 11:19am   772 views  9 comments

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The social network has already removed protest messages in California, New Jersey and Nebraska.

Facebook is blocking anti-quarantine protesters from using the site to organize in-person gatherings in states that require residents to stay in their homes due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The world’s largest social network has already removed protest messages in California, New Jersey and Nebraska from its site at the urging of state governments who say those events are prohibited by stay-at-home orders, a company spokesperson said.

Protesters have gathered in state capitals around the country in recent days to push back against their governments’ decisions to close non-essential businesses and requiring residents to largely isolate at home.

SEE: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/20/facebook-shuts-down-anti-quarantine-protests-at-states-request-196143

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1   ForcedTQ   2020 Apr 20, 12:19pm  

This plus many more instances of popular private social media platforms de-contenting their sites because someone was offended needs to lead to new platforms. Those that accept facts and opinions of those aggrieved users of the more popular platforms, and convince others to follow their lead. Free market does work, the majority of people just aren’t doing it right because they expect the government to do it for them or fix their problems.
2   Patrick   2020 Apr 20, 12:23pm  

WillPowers says
The world’s largest social network has already removed protest messages in California, New Jersey and Nebraska from its site at the urging of state governments who say those events are prohibited by stay-at-home orders, a company spokesperson said.



Wow, that is a MASSIVE First Amendment violation: government pressuring private companies to suppress free speech!

Facebook should rightly point out that state governments are violating the Constitution and refuse to comply, but then, Facebook itself is part of the pervasive government surveillance system used to spy on all of us, almost, but not quite as bad as Google.

The one benefit of this is that it becomes very clear that Facebook interferes with political speech daily. Every group that tried to exercise its right to free speech to talk about protesting unfair and arbitrary shutdown rules and then saw their protest disappeared by government "suggestion" is going to find alternate channels away from Facebook, and that is a very good thing.

No one should use Facebook for anything, ever.

And billions of naive people still keep making themselves utterly and completely dependent on Gmail and Google and Android with no worry that their life will be very badly interrupted the moment Google decides they are no longer complying with The Narrative that Bad White People deserve to have their jobs outsourced to China and all remaining shit jobs mopped up by illegals.

The Second Amendment is needed exactly for cases like these, where the First Amendment is shat upon by government officials.
3   Hircus   2020 Apr 20, 12:27pm  

FB inhales govt cock to get on their good side.

This is how they kiss up, demonstrating their "value" to the govt, so that politicians will defend and protect their new tool, instead of attack them.

They started this kiss-ass shit right after Pocahontas started attacking them. It scared them badly. I bet they had an emergency "corporate strategy" meeting right after that.
4   georgeliberte   2020 Apr 20, 12:44pm  

I know this is not a connivance; but, this kind of thing makes me think it is.







connivance







connivance
5   clambo   2020 Apr 20, 2:16pm  

A pox on Facebook.
7   WillPowers   2020 Apr 21, 10:34am  

Patrick says
No one should use Facebook for anything, ever.


And I don't although I still have an open account. My last post was a pic of a pile of dog shit on the carpet, which is how I feel about Facebook.
8   Patrick   2020 Apr 21, 12:18pm  

Come to think of it, Facebook is harmful to both our freedom of speech and our privacy.

Our freedom of speech is being squashed by government officials asking/telling Facebook to remove political speech they don't like, such as lockdown protests.

Our privacy is invaded by Facebook sharing our social connections, and photos which others have naively taken, posted, and labeled with us in them.

https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/21/fcebook-cia-onion/

You did know that Facebook is a ‘massive online surveillance program run by the CIA,” right? And that Mark Zuckerberg is a CIA agent codenamed the Overlord? Just watch the Onion video above. It explains the whole thing.

I especially like the Congressional “testimony” from the deputy CIA director:

After years of secretly monitoring the public, we were astounded so many people would willingly publicize where they live, their religious and political views, an alphabetized list of all their friends, personal emails addresses, phone numbers, hundreds of photos of themselves, and even status updates about what they were doing moment to moment. It is truly a dream come true for the CIA.

Not only that, think how much money it saves the CIA. Unfortunately, other CIA programs like Twitter aren’t doing so welll: “400 billion Tweets, and not one useful bit of data was ever transmitted.”

Also note the chart showing the success of Operation Farmville, which “the CIA credits with pacifying as many as 85 million people after unemployment rates rose dramatically.” It plots time spent playing Farmville versus hours working.


Wow, the original "Operation Facebook" is gone!

Too close to the truth.
9   Bd6r   2020 Apr 21, 12:36pm  

Patrick says
Wow, the original "Operation Facebook" is gone!

still there, the link is simply dead:

https://www.theonion.com/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-agencys-costs-1819594988

BTW this is better journalism than 99.9% coming out of CNNPC, MSNPC, FOXPC or any other major networks.

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