Sounds like how I got onto Linked In. Finally I got off, but it took
two acts of contrition and ten Hail Face Books.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/28/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes. I experimented with directions to open a Facebook account to see if I
could do it. I did it, although I never meant to use it. And then I was
bombareded by Facebook with all kinds of messages attempting to lure me onto
the site like telling me about all these people who were looking for me. I
looked one or two times and most of these people were not looking for me.
They were blindpeople whose names I knew from email lists but with whom I'd
never had contact. The logarithms were matching us. It was absolutely
disgusting. I had my daughter delete my unused account and got a message
that it wouldn't be deleted for 14 days in case I changed my mind. Using
email is nothing like this.
Miriam
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 10:15 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Facebook Deletes Gaza-Based News Agency
Safa's Account Hosting 1.3 Million Followers
Do we need more proof that we Americans have been relegated to "Consumer"
status? As a Citizen, I contend that I have the Right to Privacy.
And I understand that the outpouring of much of my personal life on email
lists is information that can be gathered and used to the benefit of others.
But I will never...ever...use Face Book. And you don't need to look for my
Tweets, either!
I know, I know, google is no Angel of Goodness, but unless I choose to
become a hermit, I do need to make some compromises. But we each
have our limits.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/28/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It is sad that everyone, including those who consider themselves to be
Progressive, and their institutions like Democracy Now, all use Facebook.
Truthdig uses it. It is seen as just another way to reach people. But
it is more dangerous than that. Its purpose is not to increase
communication, but to sell information about its subscribers. And for
those who are horrified by its use by Cambridge Analytica, the Obama
campaign did precisely the same thing in 2008 and was praised for its
innovation. And, of course, much of the data was given, rather than
sold, to the campaign, because Facebook employees were Obama
supporters.
Miriam
Facebook Deletes Gaza-Based News Agency Safa's Account Hosting 1.3
Million Followers By teleSUR
27 March 18
According to a Palestinian activist, this year alone 500 pages of
Palestinian journalists, activists and bloggers have been deleted.
Facebook deleted account of Gaza-based Palestinian news agency Safa as
part of a pro-Israeli policy to block and delete users accounts
considered "inciteful." The agency is allegedly affiliated to the
Palestinian political party Hamas; a claim Safa denies.
Safa's account was disabled along with the accounts of 10 of its
editors Saturday, after 5 p.m local time. The agency's social media
manager, who is keeping his identity secret, told the Jerusalem Post
"We were totally surprised." The news agency didn't receive a warning or
an explanation.
"We are now working to restore the account because 60 percent of the
website's traffic comes through Facebook," the social media manager
said. A reminder of Facebook's growing power in limiting or
facilitating access to information.
After the page was deleted, journalists rallied Saturday outside
Safa's headquarters in Gaza to reject Facebook 's move, arguing the
news agency had garnered 1.3 million followers who rely on it for news
information.
The agency responded to the measure by urging Facebook to fulfill
their stated goal "to allow people to express their standpoints so
that the world is more open and pluralistic."
Activists have launched a campaign titled "Facebook is fighting
Palestine,"
which is calling for a boycott of the social media company. According
to them, Facebook has proven their bias because while they delete and
block Palestinian Facebook accounts, citing incitement, they have
failed to do the same to Israeli accounts that openly call for
violence and produce derogatory and discriminatory content against
Palestinians.
According to a Palestinian activist quoted by Israeli newspaper
Haaretz, since the beginning of 2018 roughly 500 Facebook pages of
Palestinian activists, journalists and bloggers who cover the news in
the occupied territories have been shut down by the social media company.
Clearly violent and inciteful comments on the social media website
have in fact come from Israeli officials themselves and an action
against them has yet to be taken by the company.
Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has praised Facebook on its
censorship policies when it comes to incitement despite the fact that
she has been shown to carry out the same practice herself.
"They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their
heads.
Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to
hell with flowers and kisses," Shaked once wrote on her Facebook account.
"They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They
should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the
snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there."
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