The Facebook Boot

Tue 29 April 2008 9:04 AM HKT Posted by Thomas Legg
in Internet

Locally, Apple Daily was running a story yesterday about a local university student who made waves by posting an event to protest the Olympic torch relay this Friday with a Tibetan flag. The event was originally posted on Facebook. Now her Facebook account has been zapped.

Tech blogger, Scobleizer points out that this is hardly unusual in his post today entitled Facebook continues to suck.

Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz is a CEO of VodPod.tv in Europe. Not a spammer. Not an idiot. Not someone abusing Facebook.

Yet he still got kicked off.

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Rodrigo isn’t the only one, by the way. Every few days I get another email from someone who got kicked off and the thread about me getting kicked off has 500 comments now.

During the Burmese protests last Fall one of the primary organising areas for opposition were Facebook groups. Major news services wrote story after story and provided Facebook free PR in massive column inches. Personally I had my Facebook account temporarily frozen for posting too often to "the wall" of various groups. And many others, who were responsible for doing the work that was providing Facebook with valuable content and free PR, were being booted regularly. I guess it's the price for driving up bandwidth usage and server load for driving Facebook towards serving something greater than superpokes.

UPDATE 9:30am 30 Apr 2008
Andrew Lih notices SCMP picks up the story of Christina Chan Hau-man a day later than their Chinese-language counterparts.

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