Re: [Marxism] Facebook political purges

2011-04-30 Thread Joseph Catron 
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On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Einde O'Callaghan wrote:

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.
>

Doesn't seem suspicious to me. Some clever right-winger, probably British,
struck a blow against his enemies by getting a bunch of them knocked
offline, for an entirely predictable and (from my perspective) valid reason.
Perhaps this is a trick worthy of imitation, but I see little point in
bemoaning it. I think of it as the ACORN rule - you can make enemies, or you
can break every rule in the book, but when you do both simultaneously,
you're just asking for it.

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Re: [Marxism] Facebook political purges

2011-04-30 Thread Einde O'Callaghan 

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On 30.04.2011 15:52, Joseph Catron wrote:


On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Louis Proyect  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

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: .


The deletion of the groups has got some media coverage, e.g. in the 
Guardian 
.


Einde O'Callaghan


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Re: [Marxism] Facebook political purges

2011-04-30 Thread Ismail Lagardien 
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Thanks for the socialist unity link, Lou!
 

Ismail Lagardien
Department of Politics and Public Administration

Elon University
Elon, NC
27244

Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal)

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Re: [Marxism] Facebook political purges

2011-04-30 Thread Joseph Catron 
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On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Louis Proyect  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

And
all the conspiratorial whining in articles like Socialist Unity's doesn't do
much to induce my sympathy.

-- 
"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
lytlað."

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[Marxism] Facebook political purges

2011-04-30 Thread Louis Proyect 

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http://www.socialistunity.com/?p=8064


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