Friends and respected associates,
Hopefully everyone receiving this email is familiar with the facebook
group St. Louis Activist Hub, which sends out weekly progressive
activist event listings to over 2000 people in the St. Louis region:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=38547728104&ref=ts
About three weeks ago, facebook disabled my account with no
explanation or warning. I have read over their Rights and
Responsibilities page, and there is no policy listed that I have
violated. Facebook has also blocked weekly messages from St. Louis
Activist Hub as well as event invitations from that group. For a
fully documented and more detailed account, please look at this page:
http://stlactivisthub.blogspot.com/2009/06/facebook-stop-blocking-st-lou...
Despite my sending several email messages over the past three weeks to
the email address they provided telling them that I think my account
was disabled by mistake, facebook has not replied to any of my emails
or restored my account. That is why I am appealing to you to help
save the St. Louis Activist Hub.
Please send an email to disabled@facebook.com and info@facebook.com
asking them to do the following:
1. Restore the account of ajshrive@artsci.wustl.edu *
2. Stop blocking messages from the St. Louis Activist Hub
3. Stop blocking event invitations from the St. Louis Activist Hub
* Make sure to include this email address so they know the specific account
It would be helpful (but not required) if you could include any
personal testimony about why you think Activist Hub is useful or how
we helped to promote your event. Also, it could also be helpful if
you bcc'd the message to ajshrive@artsci.wustl.edu .
Facebook has already shown that it won't respond to one person;
hopefully it will respond to a larger group. I have really enjoyed
the opportunity to connect activists across St. Louis with this group
and the positive feedback I received, and I would love to have an
opportunity to keep it continuing into the future.
Many thanks,
Adam Shriver
Friends and respected associates,
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Dear Friends,
I am reposting this message from my friend and colleagues Adam Shriver, whose FB profile was disabled unexpectedly, about three weeks ago, about the same time I had been unable to repost messages from the St Louis Activist Hub to the WashU Coop website (Dreamhost hosted), www.washucoop.com, though I could post innocuous party invitations. At the time I thought it was censorship, then I thought it was an unusual coincidence of technical glitches, now I think it was most probably censorship. Who can say? Gremlins and cosmic rays are clever, and good at covering their tracks. This requires a great deal of technical skill, certainly beyond my capability.
When my own profile was disabled without warning, on VP DEBATE DAY, the reaction was swift. I met a friend on the Metrolink, who was shocked and dismayed by my "massive facebook defriend," and agreed to petition FB immediately. He took over Admin duties for my "help me bring my missing cat shevek home" group." Another friend found himself the only member of the nascent Washington University of Utopia group, and invited back my doppelganger profile (Jerome Howard Bauer). My disablement fairly launched that group. Another friend took over Admin duties for most of my other groups, and made my doppelganger an Admin. I then sent a message to all invitees to a very large event, inviting them to "friend" me. I made a game of it: how fast can I rebuild my network? I had a couple hundred friends back, within days.
When Adam asked my advice, I suggested starting a second profile, as so many others have done. I advised him to be completely open and honest about it, as I have done and will always do. "Strength through truth." He has chosen instead to present to the FB team careful documentation of the progressive disablement of his account and groups, obviously censorship. He and I had both believed, initially, that this was robotic disablement due to an unusual number of recent friend requests. Neither he nor I believe this any more. This looks like censorship. Please support Adam's right to free speech, even if you don't agree with him. You will be next, no matter what you believe. Free speech: use it or lose it.
Adam is quite right: FB will act only if they receive protests from many people. Please let all your friends know.