Posted on 10/11/2018 8:31:16 PM PDT by Theo
bflr
This is more than sad. I hope and pray Facebook feels the pressure and restores your website,
Freepers who say do nothing are full of it
I still have a FB account.
This article is posted there
A conservative Federal judge was murdered by Jarred on that same day Gifford’s life continued. The honorable judge normally carried if I’m not mistaken. Others younger were also murdered.
Giffords was seriously injured. Thank God she survived. Her politics are irrelevant to her life and well-being.
[[Anyone have any thoughts on how to get Brian’s story in front of those who can do something about this?]]
Submit the story to fox news- there’s several places to do so- get it out to as many fox shows as possible, maybe one will pick up the story
[[Anyone have any thoughts on how to get Brian’s story in front of those who can do something about this?]]
Submit the story to fox news- there’s several places to do so- get it out to as many fox shows as possible, maybe one will pick up the story
This is why you should never rely on a third party platform for your business. They can change their terms of service or just decide not to do business with you any more and you are screwed if you are reliant on anything other than your own platform. Go ahead and use Twitter and Facebook to promote your business, but do not use them as your primary outlet. Any business you get from those sources should be immediately shifted into your own ecosystem. Buy advertising there if you feel you must, but use it for free as much as possible. In other words, use them and take advantage of the free stuff, but never, ever, rely on them for your business.
Honestly, why anyone uses Facebook is beyond me.
Just stop. Put them out of business. Stop advertising. Stop posting. Find another way.
That will never happen.
People just need to stop using it. People and companies need to stop feeding the beast.
He had $300,000 and blew it on a Facebook page?
He sounds like a dope.
Bookmark!!!
“In other words, use them and take advantage of the free stuff, but never, ever, rely on them for your business.”
Old saying: If they are big enough to make you, they are big enough to break you. Many companies found that out when trying to do business with Walmart. Bezos is administering this lesson to some in the Amazon Marketplace. Card transaction processing services has also been an area of leverage.
Time for the Facebook class action to sting them hard.
It’s illegal because they are politically advocating for one side. Once you do that you relinquish your privacy rights in the public sphere if you operate commercially. I’m not sure why people don’t understand that.
There absolutely is precedent that a private company or private property can be considered a “public forum” and therefore has to respect free speech / assembly rights.
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled in Bock v Westminster Mall that because they allowed a range of activities at the mall and also allowed government offices (recruiters for the armed forces) to set up kiosks that they had become a “latter day public forum” and could not deny free speech / assembly rights. This case in particular is pertinent.
The US Supreme Court ruled in Marsh V Alabama that owners of a private company town could not prohibit the distribution of religious tracts because they had treated the town as a public area.
Basically if a private business does certain things that act like a “public forum” then they become a public forum.
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube allows business to use them, private citizens to use them, cities, etc. They also allow the government to use them. There are also a wide range of activities. Community postings, fund raising, etc. additionally, unless a person keeps their content “private”, the content is visible to anyone without an account, meaning it is “public”.
They have become a de facto “town square” and must not prohibit free speech activities. There is grounds for class action against all of the big 3.
Good point.
There are also the treatment of public utilities that are monopolies.
How ironic that a private baker can be fined for not putting a gay message on a cake, but an open public forum is not punished for prejudicial editing and blocking.
The difference is that we KNOW what a disaster Communism was and is, and a great deal of us know that socialism is just Communism light. Armed with this knowledge, and living in a nation in which citizens are armed, we won't let this happen.
I dumped Facebook a couple of months ago. I can’t really speak to who they are dumping.
It really is a waste of time for me.
I know, it’s nuts.
But the public utility is also a good example. The electric company can’t shut off your power because they don’t like your business.
It’s not quite as similar to the situation where the courts have ruled that private property can be a public forum, but it’s very important.
Today it is Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Gmail is also doing it. Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple are starting to do it. PayPal, and other formats are doing it. Some of those fall under public forum / town square use and some don’t.
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