Facebook Censors Ron Paul!

[KingTheoden]

Everyone on facebook, test this out.

In the upper left hand search bar, type in Ron Paul and hit enter. Returned are only 'people'- no groups, no events, etc.

Now hit back and try this.

Type in any other presidential candidate and hit enter. Voilà! Amazing...

 

[TechnoGuyRob]

Yeah, I saw this happen this morning...

Wtf?

 

[bp2519]

I also noticed that... and that the homepage for US Election application is run by abc news.........

 

[walt]

holy crap

this isn't an election, it's a civil war and it's already been declared by others.

 

[dspectre]

someone needs to tell the people on the facebook forums about this.

 

[silverhandorder]

Is there any way to contact them? This hits home since I use facebook...

 

[OceanMachine7]

I sent a message, by clicking on "Help", then "US Politics", then submitted my own question.

 

[tanverenzo]

I'm getting the same thing. Ridiculous!

 

[Green Mountain Boy]

It's also the same for Groups. If you click on the Groups link in your left hand column and search for Ron Paul I get NO results whatsoever. I get plenty of results for all other candidates.

 

[theprolific]

someone needs to submit a story to digg/ reddit about this facebook censorship asap

 

[me3]

Maybe it was the public S*P*A*M campaign that was being run here for 11/5.

I really think members do the campaign and Dr. Paul's chances a disservice when they publicly post poll bombing or mass emailing campaigns in detail.

Everything you post on the internet in a public forum can be read and searched by anyone else. Get used to it.

 

[yoshimaroka]

someone needs to submit a story to digg/ reddit about this facebook censorship asap

Don't do anything like that yet. First let the people who run Ron's campaign on Facebook deal with this.

 

[Green Mountain Boy]

Maybe it was the public S*P*A*M campaign that was being run here for 11/5.

I really think members do the campaign and Dr. Paul's chances a disservice when they publicly post poll bombing or mass emailing campaigns in detail.

Everything you post on the internet in a public forum can be read and searched by anyone else. Get used to it.

It wasn't sp am because we were only messaging known Ron Paul supporters.

 

[Bradley in DC]

My guess is either oversight or the searches were disabled because only "Ron Paul" searches were jeapordizing a crash. Did you see the Alexa web traffic numbers on the official site this week?!

Heck, even on this very forum they used to disable searching to avoid overtaxing the server.

 

[Sematary]

have you guys considered contacting facebook about it?

 

[walt]

have you guys considered contacting facebook about it?

congrats on your 3,000th post sematary - you rock.

 

[James R]

You should take screenshots for proof. This is actually a "good" piece of news you can publish.

 

[walt]

You should take screenshots for proof. This is actually a "good" piece of news you can publish.

agreed

 

[LinearChaos]

Hmmm, methinks we should put our Jumping to Conclusions mat away for now.

Heck, even on this very forum they used to disable searching to avoid overtaxing the server.

I wouldn't doubt if this had something to do with it. I've read that Paul related web traffic is exploding, and if a bunch of interested RP noobs were researching him, chances are that his facebook popularity will come up, so they might have removed the search terms for the time being or something.

Although something similar happened some months ago with myspace.

I can't imagine them not making a statement about it if enough people create a storm. I imagine the people at Facebook are at least somewhat cognitive when it comes to business, and they know that RP brings good business, so it makes no sense for them to voluntarily "censor" anything about RP, as that would eventually cut into their web traffic and cost them a lot.

 

[Thom1776]

Type In Just "Paul"

You get results when you search "Paul" and not "Ron Paul".