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Facing Off Against Facebook<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Taking off the Kid Gloves & Putting on Our Boxing Gloves<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Fighting Back!<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n by Scott Rohter, January 2013<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The lines have been drawn. The positions are hardened. The protagonists in this fight are Facebook with over a billion users and a virtual monopoly of the social networking industry on one side, and its most devoted users on the other side. These are the people like myself who spend hours every day on the internet trying to do what Facebook\u00a0claims you can still do on their social network \u00a0i.e. \u201cconnect with the people in your lives.\u201d But instead of connecting with our friends, we keep connecting with Facebook\u2019s Office of Community Standards which keeps disconnecting us from our friends and all of the groups that we belong to.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The Office of Community Standards which is routinely referred to by a growing number of\u00a0Facebook users\u00a0as the \u201cFacebook police\u201d<\/em> keeps sending us\u00a0these unwelcome pop-up windows with\u00a0security checks or Captcha phrases. These are the hidden little letters and numbers that are buried\u00a0in\u00a0the webscribble that Facebook sends to its least favorite users, and forces them to identify before allowing them to re-connect\u00a0with their friends. Allegedly these security checks are supposed to\u00a0help make Facebook more safe. But safe from what I ask\u2026 worms or the the dreaded conservatives that use their network? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I have an interesting\u00a0question. Just how many of these inconvenient little security checks does one have to pass in order to prove to the Facebook police (and Mark Zuckerberg) that we are really people and not google bots? Lately I have been receiving these annoying\u00a0security checks every time I try to post something. I received thirty of them in a row the other day and of course I answered them all correctly. It was a hassle, but I did. So does their Office of Community Standards still consider me to be a worm… because after I passed all thirty of these annoying\u00a0little security checks, Facebook still sent me another one<\/span> the very next time I tried to post something.\u00a0 Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg thinks that\u00a0all conservatives\u00a0are\u00a0worms, but\u00a0I have not read anywhere in Facebook\u2019s rules\u00a0where it says that\u00a0his network is just for liberals, or that he has a completely different set of standards for conservatives.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The latest tactic employed by the “Facebook police” is not to allow\u00a0conservatives to share their\u00a0comments with more than thirty of their friends or groups\u00a0in\u00a0a given period of time. But no one actually knows what that arbitrary period of time is. If you inadvertantly exceed\u00a0this mysterious time\u00a0limit\u00a0then you will receive a Captcha \u201csecurity check\u201d,\u00a0just one! But if you pass it and try to share something with just one more friend or in one more group then you will be prohibited from sharing anything at all for up to two days! TWO WHOLE DAYS! This single security check comes with a little warning.\u00a0It says, “Slow down. You are using this\u00a0feature in a way that it wasn’t meant to be used.\u201d Oh really! I am?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I thought I was supposed to be able to connect with the people in my life! What is a sharing tool for if you can\u2019t use it to share? “Misusing\u00a0this feature”?<\/em>\u00a0Oh Really?<\/em> I have been stymied from acquiring new friends for the past twelve months now. Every time I send out a few friend requests, I\u00a0get another notice suspension and another notice from the Office of Community Standards prohibiting me from sending out any more friend requests for the next thirty days. I keep going from one suspension to another.\u00a0One thing is for sure though. Facebook does make good on all\u00a0their promises to punish people. That\u2019s one thing\u00a0that Facebook does very well, and\u00a0it may be just about the only thing. They make good on all of their promises to punish their users!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0So their latest strategy is to send out a single Captcha phrase with the following warning, \u201cSlow down, you are posting too fast and you are misusing the sharing tool.\u201d In other words slow down or else!\u00a0 Well I found out what\u00a0“or else\u201d meant when I posted just one more time after being warned. I thought I would just get another Captcha Phrase. But\u00a0instead I was completely banned for 24 hours the very next time that I tried to post. So how does that sound for being able to, \u201cconnect with the people in\u00a0my life? <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>Well, I have a word for those Captchas. I call them “Gotchas” and I call Facebook which keeps sending them to me\u2026 “Farcebook” because it is a\u00a0joke for\u00a0them\u00a0to\u00a0claim that they help you connect with the people in your life\u00a0when in\u00a0reality <\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0they do just about everyting possible to\u00a0keep you from connecting with the people in your life!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I am fed-up with Facebook! It is a rotten company started by\u00a0an unscrupulous thief\u00a0who is its founder and its CEO. He stole the idea for Facebook from his two Harvard classmates, the Winlklevoss twins and then he refused to pay them for their idea. Facebook was conceived\u00a0in an act of\u00a0theft and\u00a0a definite pattern of stealing still\u00a0continues within their organization\u00a0until this day. You can see it\u00a0as recently as last year\u00a0when Facebook’s\u00a0controversial plan to\u00a0sell its user\u2019s personal photographs through its subsidiary Instagram became publically\u00a0known.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Up until recently Facebook has had no real competition and Facebook\u2019s many conservative users have had no where\u00a0else to go.\u00a0So they have been forced to suffer Facebook\u2019s anti conservative bias and\u00a0discriminatory policies, i.e. all of the security checks, all of the timeouts, and all of the suspensions for sending out friend requests. Conservatives have been a doormat for Facebook for a long time. But now there are alternatives. Disgruntled Facebook\u00a0users are beginning to coalesce around three different alternative social networks which have risen up out of the agony of political defeat in 2012. They provide an alternative to liberal owned Facebook. Conservatives don’t have to\u00a0grin and bear it anymore, or stay put and complain. There are\u00a0at least three different social network alternatives to Facebook. They are Freedom Torch, the Tea Party Community, and WePluribUS.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Freedom Torch has probably been around the longest. With about 17,000 members it is the oldest alternative to Facebook. Then there is the Tea Party Community Network which is less than 6 months old, but\u00a0it already\u00a0has\u00a0over 100,000 members. And finally there is little WePluribUS. This is\u00a0the newest and the best alternative in my opinion to come along and challenge the social networking giant. It is only about 8 weeks old and it already has 2,200 members. One of the best things about WePluribUS is that i<\/span><\/span><\/span>t promises to be entirely owned by its members in five short years if certain membership\u00a0goals are met.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n WePluribUS is not limited to\u00a0conservatives by\u00a0branding problems such as the Tea Party Community has to overcome in order to\u00a0reach young\u00a0liberals. In other words WePluribUS\u00a0\u00a0has a better chance of reaching the next generation of young voters and changing their political orientation before they are brainwashed by the liberal media to be just like their fathers. WePluribUS does not run ads for the sole purpose of making money for its owners like both the Tea Party Community and Freedom Torch do. WePluribUS is dedicated to the\u00a0greater goal of making the best argument for limited Constitutional government, and exercising personal responsibility. It offers the best\u00a0hope for maintaining our own national sovereignty in the face of a growing tendency toward\u00a0one world government. WePluribUS is soon going to be the best place on the internet to discuss news and politics for people of all political persuasions. I believe that if we can have a free exchange of ideas that the best ideas will prevail, and\u00a0I am quite confident that those ideas will be conservative\u00a0ideas in the end. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
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