Comments on: Facebook Censors Ron Paul?

By: The apocalypse is near « Jess and Josh Talk About Stuff

The apocalypse is near « Jess and Josh Talk About Stuff — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:35:21 +0000

[...] censorship, and now a clear conservative (read: Christian) attack on the sexual promiscuity of college-aged [...]

By: » Blog Archive » Another Facebook Search Snafu: Obama’s Pig With Lipstick

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:44:29 +0000

[...] for searches on political candidates – a bug last year caused zero results to show up for searches on Ron Paul, for [...]

By: Facebook検索また狂う－オバマで探すと「口紅塗った豚」を返す不具合発生中

Facebook検索また狂う－オバマで探すと「口紅塗った豚」を返す不具合発生中 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:52:28 +0000

[...] Facebookと言えば、どっか変な検索結果を出すことで実績がある。特にその狂いっぷりが増幅するのが選挙候補者の検索。去年はロン・ポールで探すと検索結果ゼロになるバグとかもあった。例えばね。 [...]

By: Another Facebook Search Snafu: Obama’s Pig With Lipstick

Another Facebook Search Snafu: Obama’s Pig With Lipstick — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:25:10 +0000

[...] for searches on political candidates – a bug last year caused zero results to show up for searches on Ron Paul, for [...]

By: NewsCred Blog » Blog Archive » Ron Paul — Media Censorship or Conspiracy Theory?

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:03:25 +0000

[...] supporters. FB announced it was a bug, apologized, and the search started working soon thereafter. TechCrunch covers this whole episode, and the comment stream is quite eye-opening (with a few hilarious/ridiculous [...]

By: online yarışma

online yarışma — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:53:48 +0000

thanks

By: Howard

Howard — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:37:34 +0000

I would just like to add that this is not just limited to searches. We were organizing a rally through facebook, but the event mysteriously later disappeared from “my events”, and couldn’t be found through searches.

The only way I could get to it was to go through the link in my notification email.

How do you explain that as a bug?

By: Harun

Harun — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:01:45 +0000

No
it’s here: http://www.face..._Paul/732025404

By: y.a.

y.a. — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:33:34 +0000

if anyone knows a better social news site than digg, without this burying non-sense, please let us know, ok? post it here and i’ll check back in a few days or email me at:
m ik eba ke r500 200 2( a t )y a h o o( d o t )c o m

(no spaces! trying at avoid spambots, ok?)

there are some stories i want to try and get out to the world that cant get past the censors or whatever mechanisms at digg or reddit and they are important

plus, why should anyone decide

By: y.a.

y.a. — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:28:58 +0000

i had a couple digg submissions on Ron Paul “buried” or they just disappeared, within an hour of their submission. one, which I titled “Paul has pull” had like 57 diggs within about an hour, then it just vanished. this article can be seen if you search digg for it, and “include buried stories”… but once a story gets buried it gets no more diggs or attention. at that rate it would have maybe 1000s of diggs in a day or two, but inexplicitely it was buried almost immediately…

wtf?

i looked up “burying” in the digg help pages, and it’s is EXTREMELY VAGUE. obviously someone over their has never given up the right to arbitrarily bury whatever the hell they f’in want to. go ahead and read it.

digg, as much as i like it, is really weak and i suspect, has some heavily biased censorship going on behind the scenes…. i could go on.

thanks

y.a.

By: Mick Russom

Mick Russom — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:53:32 +0000

We are going to be free! Ron Paul is likely going to sweep the 2008 elections! Id say the probability he is the next POTUS is 90-95% now.

People are screaming FREEEDOM! like William Wallace rigt now. They are going to have to kill Ron Paul like they did JFK or RK to stop him now, and I fully expect the MSM, military industrial complex and the CFR types to go after his life because the smear tactics are backfiring!

VOTE RON PAUL FOR FREEDOM, its your **LAST CHANCE**

By: Derek Scruggs

Derek Scruggs — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:18:41 +0000

I’ve generally found Facebook search to be rather sucky, so it wouldn’t surprise me at all if this is a bug.

By: Daniel Travolto

Daniel Travolto — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:11:56 +0000

I just got banned and all my entries deleted on digg
for supporting Ron Paul and saying that Rupert Murdoch cannot own the internet no matter how hard he tries

By: Joe Corrao

Joe Corrao — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:01:38 +0000

The web is spam….

By: I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog

I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:24:08 +0000

It’s far more likely that a supporter of Ron Paul did this than an opponent. The bug was bound to be noticed, and look how it’s fed the RP supporter base’s massive persecution complex.

Judging by the comments on this page, Ron Paul share the same persecution complex and impotent rage of minority cults like Scientology or fundamentalist Christianity. Thanks for setting back the cause of libertarianism in the US another four years, guys.

By: Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:27:17 +0000

I built a computer in 1976 with a soldering iron, and wrote my own OS. I write code all day. Faster than I speak english. I have written software and sold it in one day for over 50k. Either you have rouge code puppy over there, or it came from the top. Either way it is your fault. So send the press release that Ron Paul had so much traffic that your SQL server couldn’t handle the requests or face the music.

By: Paul Joyce

Paul Joyce — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:05:58 +0000

I know that Facebook has been having indexing problems today, possible related to the launch of Ads. I created a product page last night and it still doesn’t show up in the search results. It can be linked to directly, however.

By: Klutometis

Klutometis — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:53:20 +0000

Works for me; getting 500+ groups under “Ron Paul”.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:32:16 +0000

@63 Ron Paul 2008 says: “Just check out http://www.ronpaul2008.com and look at what this guy stands for…if you think he is wacky…Iran has Open Enrollment for citizenship”

Yeah, right. That’s like reading a company press release and expecting to find honest and accurate information.

You RP supporters need to remove the blinders when it comes to Ron Paul. I can understand inexperience children being impressed with RP as underdog internet phenom but intelligent adults look to the facts.

And RP can’t hide from the facts of his voting record. Check it out here:
http://www.vote...can_id=BC031929

Peruse his votes on abortion/contraceptives, for example.

Also, take a read of some of the racist and other screwy statements made in past newsletters with RP’s name attached here:
http://www.chro...id=1996_1343749

By: dak

dak — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:51:28 +0000

“Anyone who has ever programmed knows that it is not a ‘bug’ when one specific search term yeilds 0 results.”

Really? I’m a programmer. I wouldn’t find it remarkable if a popular, active group suffered problems that other groups did not. Nor would I find it remarkable if several groups were affected, but the first/only group that someone noticed (or complained about) was a popular, active one.

The fact that no other candidates were affected is precisely what I would expect. Why would a bug only affect (or affect in greater proportion) such a small set of groups? I don’t see any reason Facebook’s code would treat candidates’ groups specially. Most likely, they occasionally rebuild their search index by loading and indexing all of the groups in some order. If the problem affected multiple groups, I’d expect that the neighbors in that ordering (which may be database-determined and effectively random) would also be unsearchable. Given that, it seems extremely unlikely that the bug would affect several candidates without affecting large numbers of other groups.

I’m not sure why Michael deemed the explanation “highly unlikely”. I wish he would explain his reasoning. The explanation is certainly plausible. It seems to me far more likely than some deliberate act of malice taken against Ron Paul on Facebook. It also strikes me that Michael is in a good position to find people to corroborate (or debunk) the claim that other groups (in addition to Ron Paul’s) were affected by the same problem. How about it? There’s little reason to deal in likelihoods when you can actually confirm or debunk the story.

By: TheChris

TheChris — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:06:12 +0000

Saying Ron Paul = wacky is, to me, basically the same as saying the U.S. Constitution = wacky.

I guess Mitt Romney isn’t wacky even though he would double the size of Gitmo and believes he only has to consult his lawyers before going to war.

I don’t agree with RP 100% but those who call him wacky are likely of the following mold:

- Elitist, greedy, supply-side, only-we-know-best neo-cons who bow down to so-called free trade capitalism which inches closer and closer to fascism.
- People brainwashed by the above (using media, religion, etc.).

Is RP the answer? I’d think he could help. No worries though, the currency will continue to drop and “fix” the problem regardless. The lower class will finally feel enough pain to get pissed-off and wise up a little.

By: AnonTroll

AnonTroll — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:02:17 +0000

@sesh Oh come on, where is your sense of humor? I think the Suckerberg’s parody is hilarious LOL

By: sesh

sesh — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:44:27 +0000

These comments have gone really downhill. Looks like stories about Ron Paul bring out the wacko’s.

By: disinter

disinter — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:12:44 +0000

Many thanks to Ezra!

By: Mark Suckerberg

Mark Suckerberg — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:57:39 +0000

Nov 6, 2007
“Bang bang bang” Suckerberg’s mom attempted to wake him up for his big NY Facebook advertising announcement by banging on his bedroom door.
Suckerberg’s mom: “Get up Mark, or you are going to be late. Get up now or I am coming in to wake yo ass up!”
Suckerberg panics because he isn’t done fantasizing about Pam Anderson yet.
Suckerberg screams: “NOOOO MOM, don’t come in, I am not ready yet”
Suckerberg’s mom: “EWWWWWWW, you better not be doing what I think you are doing in there, disgusting”
Suckerberg thinks to himself, sheesh, there goes the mood.
Suckerberg: “Ok I am coming out now”
Stumbles out of bed into the bathroom. Looked into the mirror and freaked out. OMG, zits, they are everywhere. He proceeded to pop all the zits and lathered on zits protection cream. He went back to his room and smelled his pile of clothes trying to find something to wear that don’t stink. Too bad, they all stunk to high heaven. He screams out the door “MOOOOOOOM, do I have any clean underwear, t-shirt, and pants?”
Suckerberg’s mom: “Yes my boy, I did a load of laundry for you last night, they are still in the dryer”.

Suckerberg stumbles downstairs in search of newly washed clothes and undies. As he walked past the kitchen, his mom asked “So what would you like to eat for breakfast, my $15B boy?” To which he answered, “I am going to make all of facebook users my bitches today, hehe, so I guess I will have me some bacon and eggs”.

Not finished yet…