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Facebook caves on banning Diamond and Silk after creating a United Airlines-sized PR problem
American Thinker ^ | 10 Apr, 2018 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 04/10/2018 7:04:12 PM PDT by MtnClimber

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To: Lurkinanloomin; Fungi

"...abandon Facebook..."


Facebook is generally a handy website to share pics and meetings/events for my various clubs, for example. I am contemplating dumping them.
The arrogant and extraordinarily pompous Zuckerberg is going way too far with his outrageous manipulation.

Too many of our fellow citizens feel the “newsfeed” on the right side of the FB page is actual “news” for our country. It is sad.
It would briefly inconvenience me (and pages I manage) yet there has to be another tool to take their place. Nobody thought MySpace would flop, either.


21 posted on 04/10/2018 7:34:09 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: MtnClimber

Why hasn’t Facebook been Charged wit the Numerous Anti Trust Act violations they have admittedly committed??

The Federal Trade Commission Act bans “unfair methods of competition” and “unfair or deceptive acts or practices.” The Supreme Court has said that all violations of the Sherman Act also violate the FTC Act. Thus, although the FTC does not technically enforce the Sherman Act, it can bring cases under the FTC Act against the same kinds of activities that violate the Sherman Act. The FTC Act also reaches other practices that harm competition, but that may not fit neatly into categories of conduct formally prohibited by the Sherman Act. Only the FTC brings cases under the FTC Act.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/antitrust-laws


22 posted on 04/10/2018 7:37:39 PM PDT by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: Fungi

“Never had a page, never will”

Check this out. It’s just four seconds long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59FhF2OVPX0


23 posted on 04/10/2018 7:53:39 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Pearls Before Swine

But they are harmful...to leftist groupthink in the AA populace.


24 posted on 04/10/2018 7:54:18 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: MtnClimber

I had them on “see first” and never stopped getting their posts.


25 posted on 04/10/2018 7:57:05 PM PDT by Technical Editor
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To: eyeamok

A very good question. I think government cases against the left are rare because leftism represents power to leftists in government and business leadership.


26 posted on 04/10/2018 7:57:24 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
Hopefully all conservatives and not just Diamond and Silk will be safe on Facebook.

That's TBD.

27 posted on 04/10/2018 8:05:07 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: MtnClimber

I love these women. I admire them so much!


28 posted on 04/10/2018 8:09:36 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: McGavin999

Banning Diamond and Silk is the essence of white leftist privilege


29 posted on 04/10/2018 8:15:59 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: MtnClimber

Hope so, this NEVER would have happened to these women if they were white. This was STRAIGHT UP LEFT WING RACISM. From the folks who brought you Bull Conner. This is the stuff blacks get from the dems, the Rs need to reach out more and do more for hard working black Americans, like the Misses Diamond & Silk, thank you very much!


30 posted on 04/10/2018 8:19:55 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Mount Athos
articlebyi

I like artichoke..wait. That's not what you said...!! Haha!!

None the less....you are correct...Facebook has not caved....

And probably won't ever...except if all their Republican / Conservative users quit using them.

Personally...I don't..nor will I ever use them.

So...why does any Conservative use them?

31 posted on 04/10/2018 8:28:12 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

+1.


32 posted on 04/10/2018 8:32:24 PM PDT by wgmalabama (The government murdered Robert LaVoy Finicum - what makes you think you are not next?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks MtnClimber. Zuckerberg should be required to wear an SS uniform.

33 posted on 04/10/2018 8:43:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: MtnClimber
The narrative the media is singing in unison is Cambridge Analytica misusing facebook data and facebooks' excuse of 'rooting out hate speech'.

What we want from Zuckerberg is to admit facebook is suspending and banning conservatives.

My line of questioning would begin like this:

'Mr. Zuckerberg, can you give us a rough number of facebook accounts suspended or banned each year?

What is the facebook written criteria for suspending or banning accounts?

What does facebook consider hate speech and who makes the determination?

What is the process for reviewing and determining which accounts are suspended or banned?

Is there a specific team assigned the task of review, suspending, and deleting facebook accounts?

Does facebook keep records of who suspended or deleted accounts and the reason for suspending and deleting these accounts?

Would you provide that list to this committee?'

Watch as Zuckerberg goes catatonic.

34 posted on 04/10/2018 8:50:24 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: MtnClimber

If no one at Facebook knew who Diamond & Silk were - it means there is NOT ONE conservative employed in the sh*t company.


35 posted on 04/10/2018 9:10:17 PM PDT by GOPJ ( “Universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance.” - Harvard professor Steven Pinker)
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To: MtnClimber

Regardless of what becomes of D&S,

BOYCOTT F*C*BOOK!!

Unless you truly enjoy being data mined by friends of Obama.


36 posted on 04/10/2018 10:40:54 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (CNN has covered nothing this week except Stormy Daniels and Trump's poll numbers rose 7 points.)
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To: MtnClimber

I saw Facebook as trouble a long time ago and never signed on to it or Twitter. Both a waste of time and only make mini-Marxists/liberals rich one-percenters.

As Facebook’s collaboration with the Democrats and the anti-Trump DOJ/FBI coup group, I suspect that more people will drop out of it.

It is not safe for your children or grandchildren, period.


37 posted on 04/10/2018 10:53:52 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MtnClimber

You GO Girls!


38 posted on 04/10/2018 11:02:41 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: eyeamok
There are enough other sites to give FB a run for it's arrogance.

DISCORD.com, GAB, D-CHUTE? etc are reasonable alternatives with some good features.

39 posted on 04/10/2018 11:22:55 PM PDT by JockoManning (http://www.zazzle.com/brain_truth for hats T's e.g. STAY CALM & DO THE NEXT LOVING THING)
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To: MtnClimber

bookmark


40 posted on 04/10/2018 11:33:42 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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