Facebook’s spam program catches activists

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Aug 202011
 

Facebook has sent notes of apology and is changing automated systems that blocked environmental activists and other people from posting on like-minded Facebook pages.

The activists weren’t victims of censorship, but rather an anti-spam computer algorithm that was impersonally doing what it was designed to do.

via Facebook’s spam program catches activists – Technology & science – Tech and gadgets – msnbc.com.

 

This highlights the importance of building your own space, and not relying on mega companies to look after your interests. -JA

Facebook bans Google+ ad

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Jul 172011
 

App developer Michael Lee Johnson, conscious of the need to be big on Google+ or be nobody, wondered what the best way to levitate his Google+ circles might be. He hit upon a fine idea: he placed an ad on Facebook. It was a simple thing that was headlined: “Add Michael to Google+.”

The copy read: “If you’re lucky enough to have a Google+ account, add Michael Lee Johnson, Internet Geek, App Developer, Technological Virtuoso.”

If those words weren’t enough to persuade Facebook users that Johnson was a must for their Google+, he added a fine picture of himself wearing a jaunty cap.

via Facebook bans Google+ ad | Technically Incorrect – CNET News.

Comcast Bans Seattle Man From Internet for His Cloudy Ways

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Jul 142011
 

Comcast Bans Seattle Man From Internet for His Cloudy Ways

The end of the internet comes not with a bang or a procession of four lolcats of the apocalypse, but just with two blinking lights on a modem.At least that’s how it came for Andre Vrignaud, a 39-year-old gaming consultant in Seattle, when Comcast shut him off from the internet Monday for using too much data.Vrignaud, it seems, committed the foul of using more than 250 GB of data on Comcast two months in a row, triggering the company’s overage policy that results in a year-long ban from using its services.

via Comcast Bans Seattle Man From Internet for His Cloudy Ways | Epicenter | Wired.com.