Posted on 05/24/2011 8:50:51 AM PDT by opentalk
Facebook’s managers are deploying a new software upgrade that will dismantle myriad groups of like-minded political activists unless they get a special software-key from the company.
But Facebook manager are providing very limited information about which groups are being favored with the new key, prompting some activists to complain about possible political favoritism among Facebook managers, and many other activists to experiment with techniques and tricks to get the needed upgrade-key.
“Who is being given the upgrade?” asked Pamela Geller, the New York organizer of a 15,000-member group opposed to Islamist political groups. Without the special key, groups lose access to their members.
...“The Coalition to Save Marriage in New York” is a group of 1,163 social-conservatives seeking to preserve traditional marriage’s role as an institution for parents and child-rearing. The group has been very active this year trying to derail a gay-marriage push in the state assembly, but the group doesn’t have the upgrade, said the group’s administrator, Jason McGuire in Rochester, N.Y. “Nobody else that I know got one,” he said. “You do have to wonder if Facebook is leaning towards liberal positions, instead of being on open format,”.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence got the upgrade for its 1,000-member group. “We changed over very smoothly,” said David Churchill, the network-manager at the D.C.-based gun-control group.
...The activists’ worries about Facebook’s possible political tilt are fortified by the political activities of its founders and employees. The company’s employees donated heavily to the Obama campaign in 2008, just as did the employees of Google and Microsoft. Facebook-founder Chris Hughes workers as head of the online-organizing campaign for the Obama campaign, while company chief Mark Zuckerberg has declared himself to be an Obama supporter.
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>>>>The FR group has an alert on the top of the page it will be archived instead of upgraded
Easily remedied by the original creator of the group. All they need to do is do the upgrade.
Pinging Gregb. This could be fun, hehehe! Has the Sarah group been sent a key?
Pinging Gregb. This could be fun, hehehe! Has the Sarah group been sent a key?
There's a Freeper group on Facebook? Got the URL?
Looks like FB is trying to emulate the Dixie Chicks. What is it about liberals that make them think they can insult and alienate half of their clientele?
The best way around this problem is multiple small local groups (20-100 members) that network with a larger state group. The larger state group is comprised of the leaders of the small groups. We are kind of like sleeper cells with a small footprint. Having a big group with a big leader is a distraction and a target.
We do something like this in WI.
We will find another place to go.
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I am it. It doesn’t have that option.
It is the first one in #28. The one with a little over a thousand members. There are several other small ones too.
MySpace..............
Then start a new group.
US Gov. Software Creates 'Fake People' on Social Networks to Promote Propaganda
The US government is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage "fake people" on social media sites and create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues. The contract calls for the development of "Persona Management Software" which would help the user create and manage a variety of distinct fake profiles online. The job listing was discussed in recently leaked emails from the private security firm HBGary after an attack by internet activist last week.
Libs control the media. :(
Or even the next Friendster! LOL.
Easily remedied by the original creator of the group. All they need to do is do the upgrade.
You may have missed this point - Facebook is determining who gets to upgrade and who doesn't. If Facebook decides not to allow a group to upgrade, they can't.
Then start another group.
Thanks for the links.
So now we find out that the Brady Campaign has 1,000 members! Wow! 1,000?
Oh.My.God.1,000?
I have more than that on my personal page. Lots more.
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