I was spending time evaluating the posts and then deleting all of them every day, and finally, one day I just removed all 150 of these folks from the group, blocking them entirely and permanently. I did write to Facebook Executives but they must have been just so busy, they never responded and probably never even read the letter about Russian Fake News that I sent many months before the story split open.
It must have been humiliating for them to be grilled by a Senate Committee, particularly by Dianne Feinstein from Facebook's own glorious state of California, the real cutting edge state in the whole global context. Facebook Advertising accepted the money for the ads, and never once seemed to interfere in the individual posts, as obviously fake as they were, even when people like me wrote at length to them.
Does this personify a culture of corporate indifference? Perhaps so. This is something that would be so easy to fix, not like rocket science or software engineering. Maybe in the realm of data mining, some have told me, Facebook makes all of its money, but I really don't believe that at all, personally.
It would be so easy to fix all of this with a clarification of group posting rules. Then when Facebook takes away your Freedom of Speech while generally simultaneously encouraging your Freedom of Speech, it would not seem so destructive and would not seem so "arbitrary and capricious," the terms that Judges quite often use.
I do not for a moment concur with what one prior Facebook President said about "tearing apart the fabric of our society." Quite the contrary, I perceive the exact opposite effect to be the real truth.
I will in due course discuss this with my senior US Senator and some other fine legal minds, perhaps at the ACLU, which has had many complaints along these lines about Facebook, according to their website.
Maybe even the Federal Communications Commissioners will have some insights. I am not trying to turn over something as vast nor as abstract a concept as Net Neutrality, which I confess to not completely understanding in the first place.
But having my freedom of speech taken away, even if only for one week, is something I also don't understand nor am I willing to lazily accept, especially with no rules posted anywhere clearly on Facebook. I don't think this is too much to ask, so I am going to ask Facebook executives one more time to make these clarifications.
After achieving more than one million page views here at OEN, I have learned a lot and would like to share some of these insights with you. I welcome your comments and your insights. We have a lot of work to do before the November 2018 Midterms, and the political pendulum's swing to the Left is by no means guaranteed.
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