Facebook apologizes for blocking Trump’s social media chief

NY Post ^ | March 19, 2019 | 2:06pm | Bob Fredericks

[conservative98]

Facebook has apologized for temporarily blocking President Trump’s social media guru, saying his postings were mistakenly reported as spam.

Before the apology, Trump tweeted that he would be “looking into this” with the hashtag “#StopTheBias.”.

[DesertRhino]

If I was president;

There would be an immediate order that all government agencies fully CLOSE their Facebook accounts. No USFS, No FBI, No DOD, no nothing.

Additionally it would be a firing offense to access Facebook on any government computer or phone.

Last, the US Govt should absolutely refuse to spend any appropriated money on any tech company that discriminates based on political speech.

[SunkenCiv]

• Facebook blocks Trump's social media chief: 'Why are you silencing me?'

[Boogieman]

There was no “mistake”.

[BipolarBob]

So all you need to do is report something as conservative ‘spam’ and they automatically block it... Hmm!

[bigbob]

Designating Twitter to be a utility ain’t gonna do much to Facebook.

I thought conservatives were against government interference in private business...

[cgbg]

Liberals define something as a “mistake” when they get caught.

Facebook is a de facto monopoly and should be broken up into a million pieces.

[eeriegeno]

Apology not accepted. See ya in court should be the battle cry. Shut the SOBs down

[dforest]

The big joke is that they really are not “private business”.

[minnesota_bound]

These companies never “mistakenly “ block socialists or terrorists on their websites.

[bgill]

Nope, too little, too late.

[YogicCowboy]

1. They are publicly-traded corporations, not private companies.

2. IPO = Initial PUBLIC Offering.

3. Operating in the Private Sector does not equal operating as a Private Company.

4. These are already regulated by the SEC, FTC, and CDA Section 230.

5. Under that last they are legally required to operate as open platforms, without any publishing/editorializing of content, in exchange for Federal protection from liability for said content.

6. If Congress did its job, there would be no need to invoke anti-trust regulations.

[dforest]

and.....it is also a joke to think Congress, a useless posturing political party dog and pony show will ever do their job with integrity again.

They are an embarrassment.