Posted on 01/29/2021 6:17:45 AM PST by Red Badger
Facebook has banned a group called ‘Robinhood stock traders’ that had 157,000 members, with its founder suggesting the group had been targeted by “major institutions.”
The group has no formal affiliation with the stock trading app of the name same that froze stock purchases for GameStop yesterday, prompting widespread complaints from its users.
The group’s 23-year-old founder Alan Tran told Reuters that the social media giant removed the page citing “adult sexual exploitation,” but provided no further reasoning for the ban.
According to Tran, who also heads up his own investment group, HaiKhuu Trading, bots may have flagged the page because of the use of the term “gain porn,” which is a phrase relating to stock purchases and has no actual sexual connotation.
Earlier this month, the group was also listed as a “dangerous organization,” but this label was subsequently removed by Facebook and the page was restored.
“The major institutions are attempting to silence our community. We are positively impacting people’s lives and they are attacking our group because we are more powerful than them,” Tran wrote in a Facebook post, arguing “there is power in masses.”
Tran has now set up a replacement page, although he expects that to be deleted too, saying Facebook is “not a free platform.”
Earlier this week, a Discord server used by the WallStreetBets community, the Reddit forum responsible for the populist-driven surge in Gamestop stocks, was banned with Discord alleging that it had contained “hate speech.”
As we explain in the video below, Big Tech companies are abusing the “hate speech” label to shut down communications, with many asserting that this is merely an excuse to censor content harmful to hedge fund billionaires.
The powerful just keep shooting themselves in the foot! Who do they think are the main Facebook users?
Rigged media.
Rigged elections.
Rigged market.
The elites: “Why are the peasants so angry?”
middle class extremists...
Facebook just got added to the class action suit.
Somebody needs to stomp a mud hole in Mark Zuckerbergs ass. And all of his toadies doing the dirty work.
Look for the SEC to bring criminal charges against the 100s of online posters who “manipulated the stock system” oh and Russia was involved.
This is the economic equivalent of the Capitol uprising. Expect FBI billboards up asking for tips.
And politicians wonder why the average American is so angry.
Sure, you can pull this BS all day long in places like Lima or Buenos Aires and the masses will show up, bang some pots and pans, yell a little and go back to the favela.
But, here and now, the people are starting to see their collective strength.
We are right about where we should be, historically speaking.
A Robinhood employee says Tenev received calls from the White House and Sequoia Capital to place restrictions on trading GME.
The youth which figured out how to game the short system can figure out anything. The real test becomes the Courts and the SEC. If the Courts and the SEC protect the powerful, well I will just say they will have created a very motivated, cunning Opponent!
Perfect opportunity for the GOP to make some noise. Was the White House involved in this? Let’s get some hearings started. What did Biden know abd when did he know it? Will someone PLEASE wake the GOP up?
Perfect opportunity for the GOP to make some noise. Was the White House involved in this? Let’s get some hearings started. What did Biden know abd when did he know it? Will someone PLEASE wake the GOP up?
I know! It’s Digital Terrorism! Let’s no-fly them! No social media. Rescind their degrees. Red flag them! Take it all away.
I wonder if America can get together and meddle with FB or Twitter’s stock prices.
We’re gonna need a bigger fence.
Facebook can try to curtail discussions, but FB can’t stop people from placing orders to buy Gamestock.
I just placed an order to buy Gamestock on my Etrade account
GME is up $112 right now.
We need some guerilla white hat hackers to shut down a few major institutions for “adult sexual exploitation.”
Sorry, but you can’t wake the dead.
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