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On 30.04.2011 15:52, Joseph Catron wrote:
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Louis Proyect<l...@panix.com> wrote:
http://www.socialistunity.com/?p=8064
No such thing:
http://www.jonworth.eu/over-50-political-accounts-deleted-in-facebook-purge-its-much-more-complicated
<http://www.jonworth.eu/over-50-political-accounts-deleted-in-facebook-purge-its-much-more-complicated/>And
all the conspiratorial whining in articles like Socialist Unity's doesn't do
much to induce my sympathy.
Regardless of all other considerations, the fact that 50 political
accounts in Britain (actually at least one is Irish based) disappear on
the day when the bulk of the media are distracted by the "Distraction of
the Year" is rather suspicious - especially when it doesn't appear to
have happened to similar accounts in other countries.
These don't appear to be the only deletions undertaken by Facebook in
their kowtow to British royalty - several people with the good or bad
fortune to be called "Kate Middleton" received a similar treatment from
Facebook: <http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/press-here/120808579.html>.
The deletion of the groups has got some media coverage, e.g. in the
Guardian
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/29/facebook-accused-removing-activists-pages>.
Einde O'Callaghan
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