Come on, Facebook. This is just nuts.
banned from Facebook for 30 days… again.
— Austin Open The Economy Petersen (@AP4Liberty) March 7, 2018
Erstwhile Libertarian Austin Petersen is now a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri seeking to unseat Claire McCaskill. Facebook seems to be intent on preventing that from happening.
Because? https://t.co/UWFFad0STM
— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) March 7, 2018
Giving away an AR-15, John. I've done it before and was banned but they rescinded it and said it was not a violation of the TOS. This was the video that led to the ban: https://t.co/j6btb0ImUH
— Austin Open The Economy Petersen (@AP4Liberty) March 7, 2018
That hand drawn AR-15 looks like a cartoon anteater but I guess that’s still pretty intimidating to the social media overlords.
One thing to note, @JohnStossel – Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg has donated the maximum amount in this election to my opponent Claire McCaskill
— Austin Open The Economy Petersen (@AP4Liberty) March 7, 2018
Well, that’s an interesting sidenote.
I got 3 days for commenting on a post about rifle clips #communism
— Steve Barlean (@Dirtfarmer63) March 7, 2018
https://twitter.com/AvrilMai91/status/971377394027302913
I have mixed feelings. I think this is completely ridiculous behavior on the part of Facebook. It’s not much different than a school expelling a kid for making a finger gun. The difference though is that Facebook is in the private sector. They’re free to make decisions about how people are allowed to use their platform, even if their decisions are stupid. Given how intertwined the social media site has become in our culture though, it certainly gives the loony left an unfair advantage when team Zuckerberg is picking winners and losers.
The ideal outcome here is for Facebook to eschew zero tolerance policies which will always result in silliness. Gun raffles are a common and legal part of American life. The gun grabbers at Facebook should just accept that. If you don’t like gun raffles, don’t buy a ticket.
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