Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-12 Thread nmagnan
Syria 'tortures activists to access their Facebook pages' - Adrian Blomfield, Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/8503797/Syria-tortures-activists-to-access-their-Facebook-pages.html ❝#Syria has been accused of torturing activists to force them to reveal the

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-12 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 12:06 +0200, Moritz wrote: > I'd call for a facebook mass-suicide day, using "suicidemachine.org". suicidemachine.org no longer supports Facebook. They were legally demanded to cease and desist by Facebook's legal team. -- Shawn K. Quinn - skqu...@speakeasy.net - http://ww

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-10 Thread Moritz
I still find the reactions to this here quite, ummm quiet. Of course facebook has no obligations on being the mass communication medium we want it to be, but when facebook itself show's that the efforts done by people who trust in it as a mass-communication medium just get completely deleted, there

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-06 Thread Rob Myers
On 05/04/2011 08:11 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote: The only 'better' way is accepting and agreeing to the inconvenient, complicated, unfriendly and hard to use. Yes. My experience is that this builds stronger social relations in communities of use. There is no middle ground. This is, above all

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-04 Thread Morlock Elloi
This particular war was lost when the 'rebellious' bought into the consumer convenience paradigm and tried to confront the consummerism with its own tools. Suckers. If ease of use, simplicity and minimizing the burn of brain cycles are indeed paramount and defining parameters, then we shall live

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-04 Thread Nick White
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 07:51:46AM +0200, Patrice Riemens wrote: > As far as I can determine no groups or pages have been deleted, only > profiles, and all the profiles were not individual people, they were being > used by organisations. Not only is this stupid (as I’ve previously > explained here

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-04 Thread Patrice Riemens
> Hey thanks for circulating this news, Merijn, > > Just to add that the groups targeted in the purge have now also set up a > petition site and a blog, and no, these are not on Facebook. (...) As I could find very little about this story on MSM (Main Stream Media), I tried a little bit harder

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-04 Thread tidepool
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/3/2011 10:16 AM, Nick wrote: > I'm tired of this web 20 shit. > Leaflets stapled to lamp-posts are far more resilient, regardless of inclement weather; Unfortunately, the reach just isn't there. The only viable solution, or en route, for 'reb

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-03 Thread Benedict Seymour
Hey thanks for circulating this news, Merijn, Just to add that the groups targeted in the purge have now also set up a petition site and a blog, and no, these are not on Facebook. It would be great if nettimers could sign, circulate, and give their support/ suggestions: http://www.ipetitions

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-03 Thread Nick
And, of course, even if Facebook meet the demands of the "protest page," the damage has already been done completely; organising platforms (such as they are) were successfully disrupted over a critical time. The issue isn't whether one has the right to use a service most of the time, but whether s

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-03 Thread Jeremy Beaudry
It's TINA all over again... FACEBOOK: THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE. The perfect alignment of global capital and globalized 'sociality'. Of course one would organize through FB! -jb On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:59 PM, J.A. Terranson wrote: > > http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672#

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-02 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Sun, 1 May 2011, merijn oudenampsen wrote: > Hey nettimers, > > In the run up to the wedding, facebook decided to delete 50 profiles > of British anti cuts protest groups. > Seems like they have been coordinating this with the police. Scary precedent. > > Join the protest against it... on fac

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-02 Thread Rob Myers
On 01/05/11 12:42, merijn oudenampsen wrote: > Join the protest against it... on facebook > > http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672#!/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672 Or switch to a free distributed social networking system on a server you control, preferably outside of your

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-02 Thread Rob Myers
On 01/05/11 12:42, merijn oudenampsen wrote: > > Join the protest against it... on facebook > > http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672#!/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672 Or switch to a free distributed social networking system on a server you control, preferably outside of y

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-02 Thread Rob Myers
On 01/05/11 12:42, merijn oudenampsen wrote: > > Join the protest against it... on facebook > > http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672#!/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672 Or switch to a free distributed social networking system on a server you control, preferably outside of y

Re: Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-02 Thread Rob Myers
On 01/05/11 12:42, merijn oudenampsen wrote: > > Join the protest against it... on facebook > > http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672#!/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672 Or switch to a free distributed social networking system on a server you control, preferably outside of y

Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding

2011-05-01 Thread merijn oudenampsen
Hey nettimers, In the run up to the wedding, facebook decided to delete 50 profiles of British anti cuts protest groups. Seems like they have been coordinating this with the police. Scary precedent. Join the protest against it... on facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_182031188514