Facebook takes down accounts and pages of Trump ally Roger Stone

[wvit1001]

Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Wednesday removed 50 personal and professional pages connected to U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone, who is due to report to prison next week.

The social media platform said Stone and his associates, including a prominent supporter of the right-wing Proud Boys group in Stone’s home state of Florida, had used fake accounts and followers to promote Stone’s books and posts.

Facebook moved against Stone on the same day it took down accounts tied to employees of the family of Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro and two other networks connected to domestic political operations in Ecuador and Ukraine.

Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, said the removals were meant to show that artificially inflating engagement for political impact would be stopped, no matter how well connected the practitioners.



https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-disinformation-usa/facebook-takes-down-accounts-and-pages-of-trump-ally-roger-stone-idUSKBN2492YK?utm_source=reddit.com

[Dan]

Yep.  Facebook is out of control with their liberal censorship.

[D2D]

Remember Wvit is only for speech he agrees with just like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, etc.!

[wvit1001]

and I thought you strict constitutionalists would all agree that since Facebook is a private company that there is no free speech issue associated with what they allow on their private platform.   

[D2D]

Wrong, the Bill of Rights has been applied to businesses repeatedly over the years and that distinction between government and business is getting ever more blurred!

Wvit, why do you insist businesses have the right to silence you?

[wvit1001]

well that's not true d2.    How do you get that the Bill of Rights has been applied to private businesses?    any real examples?

[chuck_curtis]

Being is I don't use FB  (and never have), I would have never missed them.  I believe he was his own privately hosted website, however.

[Dan]

Facebook is a private company that there is no free speech issue

Wrong!  Free speech is a general issue about the ability to freely express ideas and opinions.

[D2D]

Wvit, why do you insist businesses have the right to silence you?

[wvit1001]

private business has the right to decide what they allow posted on their private sites don't they dan?   d2?

[Dan]

private business has the right to decide what they allow posted on their private sites

Yes, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram have the right to deny freedom of speech, Vit.  But should they?  Should we tolerate it?

[D2D]

Wvit, why do you insist businesses have the right to silence you?

So Wvit if your phone service provider decided it didn't like what you post here they could turn off your phone service?

If your internet provider decided it didn't like what you post here they could turn off your internet service?

If you posted comments against your electric utility and they didn't like what you posted could they then turn off your electricity?

Do you have a clue?

If it is wrong to discriminate based on race why isn't it wrong to discriminate based on speech?