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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: CG6468 on August 26, 2011, 02:26:47 PM
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Jan Brewer: Facebook ‘Censored’ Post Critical of Obama Immigration Policy
By Matthew Sheffield | August 20, 2011 | 20:10
Arizona governor Jan Brewer says she was "censored" by Facebook after a posting she made on the social network was removed by the site's staff. In her post, Brewer had criticized the Obama administration's recent decision to halt prosecutions of many illegal immigrants.
"Facebook censored the post and removed it because the photo apparently violated their 'Facebook Community Standards.' Before it was removed, it had received over 10,000 likes and comments," Brewer said in a subsequent post.
According to Brewer, the initial post was taken down because was because a comedic drawing of her face superimposed onto the famous "Rosie the Riveter" character from World War II was included in it. The picture has been used by Brewer for previous Facebook posts and exists in multiple locations on her official profile.
In a statement apologizing for the removal, Facebook did not state why the drawing triggered the censorship, however it is likely that this is yet another case of ever-so-tolerant liberals abusing web alert mechanisms to censor those with differing political opinions. This is a phenomenon, called "flag spam," is one that I've written about before that seems to happen far more commonly to content that is put out by conservatives or libertarians:
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My guess is that we'll never hear from Facebook whether or not it was flag spammers who took Brewer's post down nor will we hear about what kinds of steps Facebook will take to stop conservative posts from being taken down.
I hate Facebook! (http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2011/08/20/arizonas-jan-brewer-says-facebook-0censored-post-critical-obama-im)
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Is the post back up on facebook? Do you have a link?
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Is the post back up on facebook? Do you have a link?
The link is I hate Facebook. Just click on it.
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It says page not found.
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link (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2011/08/20/arizonas-jan-brewer-says-facebook-censored-post-critical-obama-im)
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It was fine when I posted this.
But no problem. Here's another, better link.
2nd link (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/facebook-apologizes-for-deleting-jan-brewers-anti-obama-post/)
PS: Chris got the original link. Thanks, Chris. :wink:
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Can't remember what number # the commandment is but it reads something like this....
Thou shalt not use thy vain Gods name when pointing out wrongs.
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link (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2011/08/20/arizonas-jan-brewer-says-facebook-censored-post-critical-obama-im)
Hi,
Here is a link to the Blaze with the article and photo.
regards,
5412
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/facebook-apologizes-for-deleting-jan-brewers-anti-obama-post/