<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dante-Gabryell Monson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:46 PM<br>Subject: Fwd: <nettime> Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding<br>To: <a href="mailto:econowmix@googlegroups.com">econowmix@googlegroups.com</a><br>
<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">merijn </b><br>Date: Sun, May 1, 2011 at 1:42 PM<br>Subject: <nettime> Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding<br>
To: <a href="mailto:nettime-l@mail.kein.org" target="_blank">nettime-l@mail.kein.org</a><br><br><br>Hey nettimers,<br>
<br>
In the run up to the wedding, facebook decided to delete 50 profiles<br>
of British anti cuts protest groups.<br>
Seems like they have been coordinating this with the police. Scary precedent.<br>
<br>
Join the protest against it... on facebook<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672#%21/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672#!/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672</a><br>
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greets,<br>
<br>
M<br>
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<br>
Stop the facebookpurge!<br>
<br>
We demand the reinstatement of all the political Facebook accounts<br>
blocked in the run-up to the royal wedding, and that Facebook release<br>
an official apology to all those affected.<br>
<br>
As the media gather to celebrate the nuptials of our aristo overlords<br>
and the police pre-emptively cleanse London, making arrests under the<br>
new unpublicised thought crime ‘suspicion of being an anarchist’,<br>
Facebook has joined in the crackdown by blocking political accounts.<br>
The following accounts have been blocked in the 12 hours leading up to<br>
the royal wedding:<br>
<br>
Open Birkbeck<br>
UWE Occupation<br>
Chesterfield Stopthecuts<br>
Camberwell AntiCuts<br>
IVA Womensrevolution<br>
Tower Hamlets Greens<br>
No Cuts<br>
ArtsAgainst Cuts<br>
London Student Assembly<br>
Beat’n Streets<br>
Roscoe ‘Manchester’ Occupation<br>
Bristol Bookfair<br>
Newcastle Occupation<br>
Socialist Unity<br>
Whospeaks Forus<br>
Ourland FreeLand<br>
Bristol Ukuncut<br>
Teampalestina Shaf<br>
Notts-Uncut Part-of UKUncut<br>
No Quarter Cutthewar<br>
Bootle Labour<br>
Claimants Fightback<br>
Ecosocialists Unite<br>
Comrade George Orwell<br>
Jason Derrick<br>
Anarchista Rebellionist<br>
BigSociety Leeds<br>
Slade Occupation<br>
Anti-Cuts Across Wigan<br>
Firstof Mayband<br>
Don’t Break Britain United<br>
Cockneyreject<br>
SWP Cork<br>
Westiminster Trades Council<br>
York Anarchists<br>
Rock War<br>
Sheffield Occupation<br>
Central London SWP<br>
North London Solidarity<br>
Southwark Sos<br>
Save NHS<br>
Rochdale Law Centre<br>
Goldsmiths Fights Back<br>
<br>
The Facebook statement of rights and responsibilities reveals that the<br>
threat of deletion is constantly hovering over the heads of anyone who<br>
dares to participate in social media without fully revealing their<br>
identity – “use of a fake name” is among the violations that can lead<br>
to accounts being deleted – but it is clear that this recent wave of<br>
shutdowns is politically motivated, part of a network of repression<br>
designed to stifle protest.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, should you take issue with Facebook’s corporate<br>
policies, all grievances must according to our tacit agreement be<br>
pursued through California law courts (see FB statement of rights). As<br>
total transparency is demanded of us through our participation in<br>
social media, the people who dictate its terms hide behind legal<br>
firewalls.<br>
<br>
The mainstream media has celebrated how protestors in the Middle East<br>
have used social media to organise revolution – now let’s see if the<br>
same pundits who were excited by Tahrir on Twitter speak up to defend<br>
UK-based activists who are now to be barred from organising and<br>
discussing via supposedly liberatory social media mechanisms.<br>
<br>
Please join our Facebook group to protest the purge:<br>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672#%21/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672#!/home.php?sk=group_182031188514672</a><br>
<br>
<br>
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