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Facebook Censors Navy SEALS to Protect Obama on Benghazi

 


Over the weekend, Facebook took down a message by the Special Operations Speaks PAC (SOS) which highlighted the fact that Obama denied backup to the forces being overrun in Benghazi.

The message was contained in a meme which demonstrated how Obama had relied on the SEALS when he was ready to let them get Osama bin Laden, and how he had turned around and denied them when they called for backup on Sept 11.

I spoke with Larry Ward, president of Political Media, Inc -- the media company that handles SOS postings and media production. Ward was the one who personally put the Navy SEAL meme up, and the one who received the warning from Facebook and an eventual 24 hour suspension from Facebook because Ward put the meme back up after Facebook told him to take it down.

Facebook Is Reading Your Messages and Liking Things For You

Facebook Is Reading Your Messages and Liking Things For You

You might think clicking "Like" is the only way to stamp that public FB affirmation on something—you're wrong. Facebook is checking your private messages and automatically liking things you talk about. Without asking you.

The scanning, which is either an oversight on Facebook's part of a deliberate effort—we're waiting to hear back from FB—increases the Like count for a given page just by you talking about it. Auto-scanning is nothing new: Gmail has done it since day one to serve us ads. But there are serious potential personal consequences here—what if I'm talking about something disgusting, loathsome, and offensive with a friend? Do I want Facebook to automatically chalk that up as a Like? No. And I doubt you do either.

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    Marklar

    I was wondering why you liked:

    Pedophile priests

    Islamic Jihad

    The Klu Klux Klan

    The First Church of Satan

    Snuff Films

    and 2 girls one cup,

    on your Facebook account.

    INTERVIEWEE: I WTF what, where?

    INTERVIEWER: It's all right here in black and white.

    INTERVIEWEE: (Crying) I just want to learn how to use the shake machine and super size stuff.

    INTERVIEWER: I hear the TSA is hiring,.....

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      Richard Harper

      Facebook is a huge spying apparatus, and I can't believe so many people didn't recognize it for what it was when it was first introduced. Not only that, it's detrimental to society in that it suppresses normal human interaction. It disconnects us from one another spiritually and physically.

      It's also a huge waste of time. Go outside and smell the flowers.

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        Bob Bishop

        The only way to avoid this is to use private servers, all of the corporate sites do it.