Goliath squashes David - Facebook's political agenda

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How smart can these guys be?

Facebook Spikes Ad Against Keystone XL Pipeline
By Michael Collins, on May 1st, 2013

Unfortunately, Zuckerberg has the legal right to expand his free speech by the volume of his wealth. If he wants to promote Keystone XL and help kill off humans on the planet, that’s his right.

But when he stoops to using the vast forum of Facebook to censor a feisty activist group with a clever ad, that becomes an issue of enterprise and free speech. Facebook is presented as a public forum, even though the company can deny this through ownership rights. The public doesn’t own the company, ergo Facebook gets to make the rules.

Link: http://agonist.org/facebook-spikes-ad-against-keystone-xl-pipeline/

[warrior1]

1. I wish FB would go away.

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4. It is certainly losing it's luster

I'm not a big user but the traffic seems way, way down. Nothing to do with nothing much...

[blm]

2. As of yesterday ALL of my posts and links at 4 newsmedia FB pages were deleted

GOP has activists targeting FB members critical of pols by reporting their posts on news pages as 'spam'. One of my leftie friends was bumped off 2 weeks ago, and she was always cheerful and civil in her posts and exchanges with right-wingers.

[autorank]

5. Banning people

That's really ridiculous. There's always a next new thing and people will hasten to that if FB starts looking like the oligarch's tool.

[CBGLuthier]

3. You have as much "free speech rights" on Facebook as you do on DU, which is to say

None.

[trumad]

6. Oh Whaaa

Don't say douchebag stupid fucking things on DU and you will be fine.

[CBGLuthier]

8. True, but those who whine about free speech on commercial sites

are fucking crybabies who do not understand what the words free speech mean.

[freedom fighter jh]

7. I guess he's siding with

the folks who place no value on keeping this planet a suitable habitat for human beings.

[leftstreet]

9. What a loser. His claim to fame will be Candy Crush

Facebook is only good for playing games, or the rare snoop to see how gray-haired your old schoolmates are.

This guy is such a loser

[autorank]

10. And he should be gracious

I knew he was trouble when he gave a boatload of money to Newark schools and then tried to dictate teaching philosophy etc.

There will be an alternative. There always is.

[OregonBlue]

11. Facebook is so yesterday. It's not cool any longer. Wonder what's next?

[Nye Bevan]

12. How is this different from Skinner removing pro-Republican posts on DU,

and banning people who engage in that behavior?