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Gun Store Owners: Facebook Is Messing With Us
WPEC-TV ^ | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 | Kathleen Walter

Posted on 06/15/2016 7:48:50 PM PDT by kristinn

CBS12 gets answers for firearms dealers and gun store owners claiming social media giant Facebook is banning them as users.

This week, two different gun store owners told CBS12 the same story: after the Orlando terror attack, they were personally suspended from Facebook and their business pages were suddenly unpublished.

Andy Hallinan, the owner of Florida Gun Supply in Inverness, Florida, first made headlines for turning his gun store into a "Muslim-free" zone.

He told us that, this week, he experienced problems on Facebook.

"I woke up this morning to my phone just lighting up. People couldn't access my Facebook page," said Hallinan.

"I got phone calls from other gun shops."

Andy says he got a message from Facebook stating that his page was unpublished.

The owner of American Gun and Pawn in Brooksville, Florida also reported that his Facebook page was also suddenly unpublished.

SNIP

CBS12 brought this to the attention of Facebook.

In response, we received this message from a Facebook spokesperson.

"The pages were removed in error and restored as soon as we were able to investigate. Our team processes millions of reports each week, and we sometimes get things wrong. We're very sorry about this mistake."

According to the spokesperson, the admins (of the pages) accounts were suspended because of the removal of the page.

In addition to restoring the content, Facebook says it's also removed the suspension(s).

(Excerpt) Read more at cbs12.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; facebook; facebookisthedevil
More at the source link. Kudos to Kathleen Walter for getting Facebook to back down.
1 posted on 06/15/2016 7:48:50 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

Our team processes millions of reports each week


In which case you are over-controlling.
This has no better chance of succeeding
than the USSR’s planned economy did.


2 posted on 06/15/2016 7:51:51 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: kristinn

Why I would never become a part of social media other than FR.


3 posted on 06/15/2016 7:55:32 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Gear Up)
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To: kristinn

F B lies!.....


4 posted on 06/15/2016 7:58:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: kristinn

“Sorry” makes it okay?

This sounds like a TORT.


5 posted on 06/15/2016 7:59:08 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: kristinn

Amazing recent account by Sarah Weaver of the horror of Ruby Ridge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klMbdaUdf0s


6 posted on 06/15/2016 8:06:35 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: kristinn

If anyone is still on FB they might as well contribute to the DNC.


7 posted on 06/15/2016 8:09:49 PM PDT by cp124 (Trade, Immigration, Intervention)
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To: kristinn

Who decided FB was the oxygen of life?

I live fine without it.


8 posted on 06/15/2016 8:15:09 PM PDT by G Larry (Avoiding the Truth-Hillary's only expertise)
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To: G Larry
I live fine without it

As do I...however, it is the lifeblood for some of the vain, self-centered air-head, vapid, moronic idiots that spend 12-18 hours a day on it.

I terminated all contact with FB and do not miss it whatsoever.

My wife, on the other hand...

I must say, if not for FB, she would probably not get as much contact with all the kids, grand kids, cousins, aunts, uncles...we are a far-flung family...from five states within the continental US to the UK, to Germany, to Alaska.

But if Suckerburg died tomorrow and took all of Farcebook with him, she and the tribe would just go back to the old fashioned way...letters and phone calls.

9 posted on 06/15/2016 8:30:21 PM PDT by OldSmaj (Voting for Hillary because she is a woman is like eating a turd because it looks like a Baby Ruth.)
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To: cp124

Getting off of FB immediately


10 posted on 06/15/2016 8:57:25 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: OldSmaj

Exactly...


11 posted on 06/15/2016 8:58:31 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: kristinn

Discrimination....
Think of the backlash if it were a gay business being shut out ...


12 posted on 06/15/2016 9:26:59 PM PDT by nevermorelenore
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To: kristinn

facebook just suspended my account today after i’ve used its login credentials for several years to make comments on various news and political sites.

FB is REALLY cracking down on conservatives.

Twitter is too.


13 posted on 06/15/2016 10:30:48 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: kristinn

What is the best FB alternative?


14 posted on 06/16/2016 3:49:11 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: kristinn

Facebook is run by totalitarian thugs.


15 posted on 06/16/2016 5:12:48 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Travis McGee

e-mail & texting.

Communicate only with those who might care.

Nobody cares what you had for dinner or how cute your puppy is.

Why do people think hanging their life out for all to see is desirable?


16 posted on 06/16/2016 6:17:02 AM PDT by G Larry (Avoiding the Truth-Hillary's only expertise)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I do not think that you should. Other than reading what people put on there to see what the enemy is doing. I don’t post on there.


17 posted on 06/16/2016 6:20:57 AM PDT by sport
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To: Travis McGee

Free Republic.com


18 posted on 06/16/2016 6:22:16 AM PDT by sport
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To: sport

I mean a near clone of Fakebook, that can automatically mirror our FB posts in every way. Then, we can drift our side away from the old to the new FB.


19 posted on 06/16/2016 7:26:22 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: kristinn

As FB bans conservatives, their posts, & others, Terrorists & thugs are apparently free to post violent threats, videos of their attacks, & other terrorism/criminal inspired material.

WTH?

I suggest Mr. Zuckerberg spend some of his vast fortune to seek out the FB terrorists/thugs & ban them as soon as they show their evil.

I also suggest decent people suspend their usage of FB until such evil is silenced world wide. Perhaps a drop in FB viewership/usage will convince him to censor these scum.

You don’t need to cancel your FB account, just logout & refuse to log back in until he publicly acknowledges & ends these evil posts. Post a last message to your page letting your friends know what you are doing & why.

A boycott of Target stores has seriously hurt their stock value. Its investors are selling their stock as it value continues to drop. It can work with FB, too.


20 posted on 06/16/2016 8:17:27 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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