tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post5526074859757292335..comments2024-03-26T00:37:34.943+01:00Comments on Venezuela News And Views: Special request: when Facebook is an a-holeDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-24024830109321177912011-10-23T21:06:29.684+02:002011-10-23T21:06:29.684+02:00La Gringa
And yet facebook has less qualms to sup...La Gringa<br /><br />And yet facebook has less qualms to support stuff in the Middle East. Go figure.......Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-36915722716887652672011-10-23T20:46:34.302+02:002011-10-23T20:46:34.302+02:00Thanks for posting this, Daniel. When I signed up ...Thanks for posting this, Daniel. When I signed up for Facebook in 2007, I did it on a whim, just because you can't see what it is all about without registering. Like most of us do when signing up on websites, I'll admit that I didn't read the terms of service. Guilty as charged. I used my pseudonym that I use on all of my online activities. Even my close friends know me as "La Gringa".<br /><br />But I think that the real point is that I had a FB accountvand very actively used it to disseminate info for more than four years! I didn't spam, abuse, troll, or use vulgar language, and I accumulated 1,200 "friends" who wanted to know more about Honduras. <br /><br />It was only when I posted three articles about crime and narcotrafficking in Honduras, that apparently ONE person flagged my account and it was immediately disabled without question or notification, despite my long history and active use of FB. Later I received a notification of FB's objection to my "fake name" with a request for a goverment issued photo ID.<br /><br />Links to my blog were blocked by FB during the Zelaya fiasco in 2009 and 2010 as well, in the same manner. Someone didn't like the info I was reporting, so it's a cinch to get someone censored on FB -- and ironically, though my blog links had been flagged as "abusive or spam", FB seemed to have no problem with my name at that time. I couldn't even post an ice cream recipe posted on my blog! Eventually FB began allowing the links again.<br /><br />It's just way too easy to silence someone on Facebook if you don't like what they are reporting.<br /><br />I won't be sending Facebook or Google+ a government photo ID as requested! I value my head too much for that.La Gringahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14603699579838114841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-14166039813013100362011-10-23T20:30:09.957+02:002011-10-23T20:30:09.957+02:00I have family members who will not talk on the pho...I have family members who will not talk on the phone with me,several years ago-hung up the phone and told me not to mentionChavez's name again-for example. And,Ihave no blog, no large business, not famous..They are paranoid, but, sometimes I think-maybe "they ARE listening".I do not want to endanger my family and when I was younger I did not fear for myself.<br />A society dragged into this strange<br />violent period with a nutleader who nobody knows what he will dream up next-everyone and everything is in danger.<br />Chavez has talked about war and violence more than anyone-he even stated over and over-he is fatalistic..RabbiBullanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-1782871240333569672011-10-23T17:57:59.041+02:002011-10-23T17:57:59.041+02:00To make this clearer here is a page from the Reute...To make this clearer here is a page from the Reuters Handbook http://handbook.reuters.com/index.php/Reporting_from_the_internet <br />Other pages have great info too.Rogernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-65875124816693545282011-10-23T17:12:45.868+02:002011-10-23T17:12:45.868+02:00This is a problem even in the US. If your a workin...This is a problem even in the US. If your a working journalist using your real name requires you to maintain the same editorial standards and policies that your employer uses.<br />Facebook is more conserned about sextual predators than anything else. BTW I sure miss Katey at CC!Rogernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-84689975204539031402011-10-23T15:26:43.117+02:002011-10-23T15:26:43.117+02:00It is unfortunate, however facebook does not allow...It is unfortunate, however facebook does not allow pseudonyms, and companies reserve the right to establish their own policies just as bloggers do.I don't think it makes them evil...<br /><br />Google + however will be supporting pseudonyms.<br /><br />If it were me, even if I had a good reason to ban pseudonyms I would make exceptions in important cases.I despise rules and laws that are blind.<br /><br />Good luck to this brave lady!firepigettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17348890269608169297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-70976849074131819962011-10-23T12:34:48.287+02:002011-10-23T12:34:48.287+02:00According to the film, the owner of Facebook is hi...According to the film, the owner of Facebook is himself an *ssh*le.Charlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-28599842341362659582011-10-23T04:02:42.982+02:002011-10-23T04:02:42.982+02:00I am sure most people in Venezuela have no clue as...I am sure most people in Venezuela have no clue as to what Chavez was trying to do in Honduras with Zelaya. (I actually heard of you via La Gringa-you did an interview with her..)I was involved on behalf of the Honduran people.Mr. Micheletti is a hero.Had relatives, have friends in Honduras. US Secretary of State, Ambassador-got all messed up there. They were wrong.Still are.<br />Do you know Ulf Erlingsson?<br />Anyway, I will always support <br />La Gringa-all the best wishes to her and for all of her hard work<br />for truth.RabbiBullanoreply@blogger.com