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Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by tptacek on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @02:56AM (#25743672)
I don't see it either. I also don't see how there's an ideological conflict. Ron Paul's site has been ambivalent-to-favorable about the attempt to overturn the election, and maybe that's the new issue Facebook has. Whatever it is, they should disclose it, or just walk the ban back --- people get randomly banned, temporarily, from Facebook all the time.
Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by liquidify on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:15AM (#25743811)
At what point has his site been favorable?
Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by notatrumper on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:43AM (#25743998)
Should everybody who believed in the Russian Hacker narrative be deleted from Facebook and Twitter? I know it seems like an eternity ago, but we've seen relentless campaigning against Trump on the basis of the Russian Hackers allegations, claiming his election was invalid.

Shouldn't it be a hallmark of free societies that election results can be discussed and questioned?

Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by drawfloat on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:03AM (#25744651)
Not sure why this is greyed out because it's a fair question. I think the difference is that this recent set of actions (ignoring Ron Paul at the moment because we don't know what has actually happened here yet) has only come after the 'steal' narrative has led to violence, but it does seem partisan to not even countenance people comparing the general conspiracy to the one surrounding 2016.
Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by jamienicol on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:12PM (#25755347)
The blindingly obvious difference is that nobody was saying the 2016 election was rigged and that the result must be fought and overturned.
Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by drawfloat on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:32AM (#25759263)
Yes they did? Even Hillary Clinton did.

"She told party donors that President Putin had a "personal beef" against her for describing Russia's parliamentary elections five years ago as rigged."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38347684

While none of the heads of the party went so far as to say it should be overturned, we did go through many years of activists saying it should be.

I'm not here to say "CLINTON IS AS BAD AS TRUMP" "THE EMAILS" or whatever. I'm just pointing out that, to someone outside of the US, it's pretty obvious this is the second election in a row that has been declared rigged and needing to be challenged by a large number of the losing side.

Edit: Just to clarify, as this is a sensitive topic. Neither claim has merit. Trump won 2016 and there's no evidence Russia swung it for him. Biden won definitively in 2020 and, whatever Trump activists are saying, the president of the US should not be pushing this narrative. Anyone going beyond conspiracy/sore loser level "election was rigged" talk in to "we should overthrow the government/hang politicians" should definitely be removed from social media – and it's a failure of social media that they have seemingly turned a blind eye to this subject for years now.

Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by jamienicol on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @03:56AM (#25831322)
Sorry, didn't check my replies. I'm also outside of the US and honestly find your reply quite baffling. That quote about Clinton is not in any way "saying the election was rigged and that the result must be fought and overturned".

I'm sure some individual activists may have, but I certainly didn't see a large number on the losing side in 2016 saying the result should be overturned. Even if they were, they certainly weren't wound up enough to do so by violent means. Comparing the two situations is absurd.

Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by notatrumper on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:05PM (#25756575)
Really? I was under the impression that they tried to take Trump down under the assumption that he won the presidency by illegal means. Seems the same kind of thing to me. Even now they still try to impeach him.
Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page by jamienicol on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @03:44AM (#25831258)
You are under an incorrect impression then