Facebook Now Blocking Re-post from Philly Protest Movement Sites as "Abusive"
It now seems that Facebook is blocking attempts to share or re-post content from sites that are involved in the March on DNC and other protest groups, by blocking users from sharing those posts and displaying to them the following message:
The action attempted has been deemed abusive or is otherwise disallowed.
To keep from getting blocked again, please make sure you've read and understand Facebook's community standards.
Here is a screenshot of Facebook censorship of sites related to Sanders and the related rallies, marches and events planned to coincide with the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia:
This is either something that Correct the Record (or other trolls) are doing to disrupt the events planned to support Bernie and oppose the DNC in Philadelphia or someone at Facebook is intentionally trying to censor these sites. Note that this user also refers to porn being posted on Bernie sites, as well.
The lengths to which they are going to shut down dissent regarding the presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton, and our corrupt pay for play political system in the Democratic party, have reached ever more ridiculous levels. I, for one am sickened by what I am seeing over the last few days, even as we learn more about how the DNC and Clinton campaign worked to embed false narratives in the media about Bernie from the documents released by the Guccifer 2.0 hacker.
Appalled is not a strong enough word, nor disgust, nor repulsed. Ashamed of my country for falling into such a state where we are as bad as any "banana republic" that ever existed, and angry at the depths to which these guttersnipes will go to keep the people down and serve the One percenters.
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Interestingly I just shared
Interestingly I just shared this and am now getting an error message.
CFland
My friend reports she cannot
My friend reports she cannot get in either so hopefully just very odd timing and not something more nefarious. The timing is very suspicious.
CFland
In a third and odder update,
In a third and odder update, my friend that commented on that post is locked out as am I, but my sister can get in no problem
CFland
My friend reports she cannot
My friend reports she cannot get in either so hopefully just very odd timing and not something more nefarious. The timing is very suspicious.
CFland
Mine stayed on fb
but I included "go to caucus99percent" before the link. I know its redundant but maybe that helped?
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
"Community Standards."
Now That's funny!
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
I see an ocean of T-shirts at the protests . . .
"Fear is the mind-killer" - Frank Herbert, Dune
This is pretty gross.
I used to think Mark Zuckerberg was a good dictator, kinda like how Starbucks is a good corporation. So I hope that this is some shit being messed up by Correct the Record because, otherwise, we got some illegal blocking of the First Amendment here.
*Sigh* This is getting so old now.
Thanks for the great diary, as always!
I miss Colorado.
He's not referred to as Zucker the F*cker for nothing. nt
The way the initial Facebook share offering sale went down was a big tell into this jerk's character, or to be more exact, lack of.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Sorry, it's not a first amendment issue
Facebook and ask other social media sites are corporate properties, not the town square. They have been censored and they will continue to be censored to protect the corporate controlled state.
Remember YouTube videos of OWS people being pepper sprayed never going above 4109 views despite tens or hundreds of thousands of people watching? Twitter blocking during Arab spring?
The purpose of media in an oligarchy is to manufacture consent.
Let me say that again-
The purpose of media in an oligarchy is to manufacture consent.
Now you say it-
The purpose of media in an oligarchy is to manufacture consent.
Note let's say it together-
The purpose of media in an oligarchy is to manufacture consent.
This is why rallies and marches are so important--we see that we are not alone-that we are perhaps even the majority--reports in the media notwithstanding.
Dig within. There lies the wellspring of all good. Ever dig and it will ever flow
Marcus Aurelius
We are no different than China
China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works
The political revolution continues
You Might Remember This...
Back in 2008, when NSA Domestic Spying was still CT and not yet a white liberal windmill, I read a piece on how China's security/propaganda apparatus was a field trial of technology developed in the West.
The article alluded to this security apparatus being developed and perfected there in order to be dropped on us when it was humming along.
I wish I could find the article again...
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
I'd be extremely interested in
reading it, if you do find it.
"When the powerless are shut out of the media, we will make the media irrelevant" ~Anonymous~
The degree of corruption...
is astounding and seems to grow ever deeper and more obvious. There is the collusion with google also. [Google] is directly engaged in Hillary Clinton’s campaign” claimed Julian Assange at a Moscow journalism forum on Tuesday.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/06/08/julian-assange-says-google-dire...
RT has a nice piece on the DNC hack
https://www.rt.com/usa/347005-dnc-hack-donors-collusion/
Can they keep it all under wraps? I think not, although I'm fairly certain you're not going to hear about it on the nightly news. I'm wishing the Philly protesters the best of luck because I'm fearful of the machine's reaction.
Thanks as always for your reporting!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
This quote from a released DNC document
Sounds like one of the Dems Daily Affirmations.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Looks like we go to right wing sites for the truth about democra
Breibart.com comes up often
I have never published a link to their site (well maybe 1 snuck through)
But I end up there often and there stuff isn't that bad
And for sure, what I find is better than the MSM
Even found something on TPM the other day after not going there for about 1 year. Never gone back.
Seriously?
Their obsession over Al Gore boarders on pathological. Just because they are a bunch of blind squirrels, doesn't make them right.
Democrats, we tried to warn you. How is that guilt and shame working out?
I shared the RT article.
But no, I just couldn't bring myself to share the Breitbart link.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
$200M From Public Service happens in a Banana Republic, Not a
1st world country.
Amazing how quick the political sands have shifted underfoot, right?
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
I am not sure why everyone keeps beating their
heads against the FaceBook wall. There are alternatives. Why not use them rather than spending hours on tracking what FB is doing which just drains energy?
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Please tell us what the alternatives are.
Not everyone is aware of them and perhaps they can be promoted as a way to reach more people.
Yaldabaoth, Saklas I'm calling you. Samael. You're not alone. I said, you're not alone, in your darkness. You're not alone, baby. You're not alone. "Original Sinsuality" Tori Amos
Ello is one alternative.
It's kind of a weird mix of twitter/facebook/pinterest. But it does not sell advertising.
https://ello.co/
Thanks! eom
Yaldabaoth, Saklas I'm calling you. Samael. You're not alone. I said, you're not alone, in your darkness. You're not alone, baby. You're not alone. "Original Sinsuality" Tori Amos
I have posted a number of alternatives in various essays.
The suggestions don't get much attention because (I think) they take a tad more effort. Here are a couple:
FB is not the only social media outlet. Neither is Twitter. There are alternatives to those two. Yes, people will prefer one alternative over another so centralization is needed. That is what the next suggestion does.
It is free and quite easy to set up WordPress sites and there are a couple of other places that offer free web sties. these could be used as distribution centers. They can be group managed. Multiples per state would be needed in case someone wasn't able to keep up or has a problem with the site, this also help keep bandwidth in check as free sites tend to not have unlimited access.
Bulk email can be used to point people to where the information is. People who receive a message then send it to their groups. So on and so forth.
Surprise! The telephone still exists.
It is almost like people want to come together but they don't want personal contact. In past movements, people actually knew each other. Social media is distancing, not bringing people together.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Thanks
I hear you and I like the email idea but some of us just aren't phone people. My job requires me to be on the phone 5 days a week dealing with customers. Because of that, I need a little distance.
Yaldabaoth, Saklas I'm calling you. Samael. You're not alone. I said, you're not alone, in your darkness. You're not alone, baby. You're not alone. "Original Sinsuality" Tori Amos
The thing about having so many alternatives
is that individual people can pick what is most comfortable for them. If a person is stuck into a role they don't like, they will be less effective.
I cannot talk long on the telephone. If and when I talk a lot, my allergies or sinuses or whatever kick in and I end up with massive coughing and problems breathing. I found using Twitter worked well for me the last couple of months. I was able to send out a huge number per day targeting specific groups. Some of those tweets reached (from the last check) at least 70,000 people.
If Twitter starts (or continues--there are various opinions on that), there are similar applications available. They may not currently reach as many people, but they will grow once people abandon the places they are being censored at.
The various alternatives also need to be easy to do so they don't take over a person's life...say along the lines of something they can work at for half and hour to an hour a day, with days off. = ) Maybe a group effort where person A does the action of Tues and Thurs, person B on Wed and Fri, etc. there are various programs that can help with that also.
For example, I set up my tweets in a program called Hootsuite (there are a number of others, most like this one are free) and after they were set up, I just need to go in once a day and set up a schedule for them to go out.
The same kind of scheduling and group sharing can be used for any of the alternatives to FB.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
alternatives
And printing with ink on dead trees, too!
Facebook should not be used. By anyone. Ever.
The longer I live, the happier I am that I'm a never-user!
Ceterem censeo, Facebook delendum est!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Yes, and we can all plant a tree
for the Revolution to replace those that died in service to democracy.
Meanwhile, here is a suggestion I made in another thread that utilizes said dead trees and ink:
http://caucus99percent.com/comment/113452#comment-113452
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
MeWe
Mewe.com looks really appealing to me. It's a social networking site similar to Facebook, but without the ads and invasions of privacy. In fact, the company's business model is adamant about privacy and freedom of expression. Worth a look! I agree with Winddancer about FB being a waste of time and energy.
Seems like a mass exodus from the dem party ought to coincide with a rejection of corporate-fascist "social media". IMHO, for what it's worth.
Change is the end result of all true learning. ~ Leo Buscaglia
Thanks. Sounds good.
I may check it out if I get the chance.
Yaldabaoth, Saklas I'm calling you. Samael. You're not alone. I said, you're not alone, in your darkness. You're not alone, baby. You're not alone. "Original Sinsuality" Tori Amos
That site looks really good.
I will take a bit more time later to look around, but i noticed that they also have a chat which would be quite helpful.
I should add to my previous list that people can call on Skype for free to other people with Skype. So there is another avenue. I think you can also do conference calls for free there. Something to check on. I pay $60/yr for full Skype usage and an incoming phone number. (Keeps cell phone usage down as I can use Skype for long calls.)
I certainly agree that we should not support anything that does not enhance our ability to communicate and disseminate information.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
My main FB use
is for games. Right now there is a service disruption. Note: I am not saying that blocking of protest shares isn't happening. I am just wondering if the service disruption is part of the problem.
Also, I would like to try to see if there might be a workaround. Could someone please tell me some sites on FB that are involved in the March on DNC?
Thanks.
Yaldabaoth, Saklas I'm calling you. Samael. You're not alone. I said, you're not alone, in your darkness. You're not alone, baby. You're not alone. "Original Sinsuality" Tori Amos
If there is a disruption at this time, it's sporadic
and probably not system-wide, I'm having no trouble with mine. In any case, the behavior described is entirely too specific to be some sort of general disruption.
You're probably right.
Like I said, for me FB is more about games than any serious networking.
Yaldabaoth, Saklas I'm calling you. Samael. You're not alone. I said, you're not alone, in your darkness. You're not alone, baby. You're not alone. "Original Sinsuality" Tori Amos
hillary and trump fans
are making me understand the rise of mussolini and hitler. why? well, i often wondered how well-educated folks can be caught up in a cult of personality. after all, the average income of trump supporters is over 60k. so by historical standards, they're pretty well educated compared to many in 1930s Germany were.
but the cult of Donald and the cult of Hillary -- cults not based on anything policy-related at all-- are instructive. In my own lifetime , I am seeing firsthand how fascist oligarchies operate.....because it's happening RIGHT NOW.
did 9 months in California prison, because Neoliberal Democrats and GOP maggots work together to profit off the drug war
Yep
I thought the Republicans were bad enough, but most of them are pretty ignorant - by choice or by chance. The Dems I'm seeing don't have any excuse.
Beat Trump with Bernie!
Dems have the same spiritual Achilles heel as Repubs
Believing themselves superior to some other groups of people — basically, anyone who is not them —, and wanting to do a victory dance on those other people’s face.
Look at New York and Cuomo. “We are Israel and Israel is us.”
As far as the elite is concerned, the 1% is like Israel and beyond criticism. The 99% are like Palestinians, without any rights the 1% is bound to respect. And anyone who so much as tries to stick up for the latter is fair game, like BDS.
good analogy
did 9 months in California prison, because Neoliberal Democrats and GOP maggots work together to profit off the drug war
I just shared several
March on DNC posts and videos with no problems. Also pm'd a couple. Either was a glitch or they changed their " community standards".
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
Double posting
Sorry
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
Fwiw, I shared your post from yesterday on FB with no problems.
I just checked & it's still up. I added the 1st few sentences below, included the direct quote from your post, and provided the link. Fingers crossed, it will stay up. (Guess I'm not on FB's "Danger, Danger" radar yet.)
So you also wrote something before the link.
I wonder if that confuses their bot?
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
Hmmm, maybe that's it. Hadn't thought of that.
I'll try just sharing links next time & see what happens.
Apparently
the never-Trump Republicans & Correct the Record bots (same people?) have taken over DKOS and apparently now Facebook. How can we petition Facebook?
I just got back from reading about about Hillary's DNC chair taking over in DKOS, and I need to shower for about 3 hours. I've been checking back in from time to time to read non-Hillary/Bernie diaries, but I thought they finally got rid of DWC so I stupidly read it & then the comments. The whole comments section looks like the comments on Fox, without quite as much cursing but a lot more personal insults. It's like a whole different set of people are on DK than when I first discovered the site during the Michael Brown case. I've been called a Looney Liberal - what the hell kind of Democrat calls another Democrat that name? I thought we were supposed to be proud to be liberal. Helping poor people used to be a Democratic standard - now they're making fun of them over there. They might as well just start calling them "Losers" like Drumpf.
I initially wanted Elizabeth Warren to run, but was happy with Bernie. I fully intended to vote for Hillary in the general if she won the primary, but her supporters or bots and the games they are playing changed my mind. I intend to write in the person I think should be president. Even just the mention of Bernie's name sends them into paroxysms. At first, I thought it was because they were so afraid of Trump, but now that his polls are going down, they are worse. Maybe they think they have nothing to be afraid of any more. I feel like I've been punched in the gut.
Beat Trump with Bernie!
LOL, want to drive them crazy?
Just go there and write a diary titled "Bernie." In the text area, just say something along the lines of "That's all I wanted to say...Bernie." and publish.
It won't last long, I am sure, but then there can be a B E R N I E diary and a Bernie 2 diary, etc. = )
If I hadn't self-banned myself, I would be tempted to watch them tear their hair out.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
I am at the point of RESISTANCE
Brothers and sisters ... I address you thusly in the spirit of revolution. We must dig deep for courage and resist. We have a choice to reject what they are offering. We can say no, lawful noncompliance. Our struggle is as much an individual, internal struggle as it is a collective, external one. It is up to each one of us to stop doing what we do not want to do. I know it's tough, who can afford to quit their job? But we must find a way to do the next right thing in every moment.
I don't know how and am open to ideas but man, my mind has been blown. I've been literally puking and weeping for a week because I realize I have been choosing my next action through the fog of cognitive dissonance. Waking up to reality has been shattering for me. Life shattering. In one moment if despair, I couldn't think of any reason to continue besides my don and cat who need ne, and my handsome nerdy squire who loves me. Without them, I'd seriously consider checking out. Heroin would be my go to escape route since I could probably get it easier than a bottle of Xanax.
Okay, thats the level of despair I dunk to the other day, then I put my bug girl oanturs on, called myself a WATB and set about on my new path of resistance.
If it feels bad or wrong, don't do it.
Thanks for "listening.". I hope I don't sound hyperbolic as I mean every word I wrote quite literally.
Oh, we need to figure out alt communications for when the internet suffers an unexpected outage. The internet is a good place to connect but our struggle is in meatspace.
Peace and infinite love revolutionaries!
#Revolution
Too many typos to edit on my phone
Hope you can grasp the gist if my gibberish.
Phone trees
I am not sure this is still done, but schools used to have parents take turns calling other parents to remind them or inform them of certain happenings. if HRC is elected, I fully expect there to be problems using the internet ofr organizing. Heck, her Orlando pandering talked about the need for more Internet surveillance.
Isolation--even though many don't think of social media that way, it is--is key to stiffing voices. How many spend 100x more time on the Internet talking to strangers than we do talking to our next door neighbor?
Keep busy. Take it from a person who has been suicidal for nearly all her life--please note that I am still here--screwing up, I found, was not worth it even though the thought still crosses my mind at least once a day.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Welcome to FaceBook!
A place where you can share everything with your friends, family, community without censorship! We live our life on the internet -you can now live your life on FaceBook without problems! "Come one, come all!" the pied piper Sir Fuckerberg shouted! Follow me down the rabbit hole because once I have you there, I can do with you as I please!
So happy I never fell for that crap!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
I use fb for Bernie articles.
But then, the world has taken so much away from me, I now have nothing to lose.
Well, I have nothing that fb can take. I have the affection of my daughter and sil. I have a 22-year-old cat who sleeps in my lap. And I have an old TV in my room. Also, I live in a house that is modest in size but is quite comfortable.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
Not surprised at all.
People think of Facebook as some sort of social service. It is a profit-making corporation. I invite those who know how to look up how much Facebook and/or Zuckerberg have donated to the Clinton campaign or DNC.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
In Your Facebook, by David Emory
If you haven't read some of David Emory's older material, FTW(For The Record), I strongly recommend a review of
http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-718-in-your-facebook-a-virtua...
as it details the primary backer of Facebook, Peter Andreas Thiel who has a far-right/libertarian political philosophy.
Venture capital firm, In-Q-tel, is a CIA technology subsidiary deeply involved with the Facebook. CIA loves this technology because it makes spying easier. The Central Intelligence Agency has a whole center dedicated to monitoring Twitter, Facebook and other media.
You want to discuss IT
You want to discuss IT collusion CT
I JUST signed up for the Bernie livestream and the Moment I sent hit send my phone rang.. Literally the very moment. It was a robo call from the HRC campaign desperately asking me to donate $$ to stop trump.
If the call had come 5 minutes after I hit send I would think nothing of it but my phone really truly rang the very moment after I hit send.
Made me seriously go HMMMMMMMMMMM
Orwell was an optimist
Some of the Clinton people and Trump trolls . . .
have made opportunistic alliances in order to shutdown some of the more articulate Bernie advocates.
Shaun King was a victim of this with the false plagiarism charge a couple months ago. He's hated by wingnuts because of his focus on issues related to police brutality. But of course, Clinton's people went after him too because he's been such a strong Bernie advocate.
e.g.
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/20/false-plagiarism-accusation-against-...
Of course the net result has probably pushed Shaun permanently into the opposition along with a number of his readers. That incident in particular was an eye-opener, because people who purport to be journalists never bothered to contact him to test the claim and verify it; and then when the claim was proven to be false, there was no apology from the publications that originated the charge.
Others like Matt Bruenig previously of Demos have also faced similar orchestrated harassment campaigns.
In both cases too, I think it's important to underscore that the attacks have been orchestrated by people with ties to the Clinton campaign AND right-wing trolls who have an axe to grind with both writers (e.g. Shaun because of black lives matter reporting, Bruenig, because of his evisceration of libertarian arguments).
You could see this as well with pushback stories targeted at publications like Salon.com which were very Pro-Bernie. Chomsky's argument about "Manufacturing Consent" is more relevant now than ever. With media consolidation things have gotten worse.
Unaccountable power is always a problem. Facebook's ability to consolidate a market is part of its appeal and also part of the problem. I don't know the specifics of this case, whether these are actions being done by Facebook specifically, or whether it is people in the Clinton campaign who know enough about site algorithms to act as de facto censors (e.g. that was part of how some Clinton trolls took down some of the Bernie "fan" pages during the campaign season). Either way, I'd be curious to know what the answer is.
on the bright side.......
They aren't invoking The Patriot Act...... yet.
Of course that's hyperbole, they'll save the P/A for those pro-worker, thug terrorist from the Union Movement.
21st Century America: The distracted, superficail perception of a virtual reality.
Funny, Steven you wanted nothing to do with Twitter and now...
your complaining about Facebook? Are we finally moving into the 21 century?
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho