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Thanks to A for sending this along:
"Confusing, we know. Here’s how it came to be. The CBC teamed up Student Vote, an organization geared towards educating youth on electoral processes, to create something called the Great Canadian Wish List hosted on Facebook. You know, cuz the youth like the Facebook. Culminating on Canada Day, the unmoderated Wish List is a call to submit and vote for ideas on how to improve Canada. The “wish” that can gather the greatest support will receive an hour’s worth of airtime on an upcoming CBC program.
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Turns out, there’s pretty good reason for that. Almost as soon as the Wish List voting started just under a month ago, a vocal and persistent group of pro-lifers have overwhelmed the site. When pro-choice users fought back, they found their Facebook privileges dramatically limited by Facebook administration without adequate explanation."
Read the rest of the article here and pass it along.
"Confusing, we know. Here’s how it came to be. The CBC teamed up Student Vote, an organization geared towards educating youth on electoral processes, to create something called the Great Canadian Wish List hosted on Facebook. You know, cuz the youth like the Facebook. Culminating on Canada Day, the unmoderated Wish List is a call to submit and vote for ideas on how to improve Canada. The “wish” that can gather the greatest support will receive an hour’s worth of airtime on an upcoming CBC program.
blablabla
Turns out, there’s pretty good reason for that. Almost as soon as the Wish List voting started just under a month ago, a vocal and persistent group of pro-lifers have overwhelmed the site. When pro-choice users fought back, they found their Facebook privileges dramatically limited by Facebook administration without adequate explanation."
Read the rest of the article here and pass it along.
Labels: Politix
posted by just a girl at 12:58 PM
4 Comments:
That article doesn't make any sense. What's the allegation: that pro-choice posters were controlled to an extent that was greater than the controls on pro-life posters?
Or, in other words, are they alleging that Facebook has an actively pro-life editorial bias?
Or is it that pro-choice posters found themselves outnumbered by pro-life posters and, in order to make up for that, posted more frequently...which got them into hot water with Facebook's "spam" controls...?
If the second scenario is the case, then it's a disservice to readers to imply that the first is the case.
I read Rabble on a very regular basis and I would argue that this article is in reference to your second point, Chestery. I believe that it is "Or, in other words, are they alleging that Facebook has an actively pro-life editorial bias?" and based on that, whether we are pro-choice or pro-life, we should be careful with any 'institution' both real or virtual that would try to control anything we may have to say.
I would agree with you that if it were the last scenario it would be a disservice, but that is not at all what I am getting from the article.
I don't think it would be worth reading of that was the implication. That it is about someone controlling and altering controls because they do not agree with your choice of political belief is another situation.
Rabble can be trusted :)
Colleen
That's some insane shit if it's true.
Yeah, I just didn't get what the article was really trying to insinuate. Well...if the allegation is truly that Facebook staff is cracking down on pro-choicers to a greater extent than anti-abortion advocates, then that is indeed fucked-up.
But, if you read the article carefully, it's still pretty vague and doesn't make much of a case. All it says is that certain individuals pushing pro-choice were censored. It doesn't provide meaningful demonstration that pro-lifers squeaked through censor controls to a greater extent.
From what I can see, it still seems like some pro-choice people amped up their efforts to counteract the greater numbers of anti-abortioners, which Facebook deemed as spammy. Which I don't necessarily have a problem with.
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