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Facebook temporarily disabled the social media accounts of a woman who was posting video of her own standoff negotiations with the police:
Baltimore police shot and killed Korryn Gaines, a 23-year-old black woman, after an hourslong standoff on Monday — during which Facebook and Instagram, at police request, temporarily shut down Gaines' accounts. [...] Police Chief Jim Johnson says Gaines was posting video of the standoff to social media as it was unfolding, which prompted police to request the deactivation of her accounts. Gaines' Facebook page is now reactivated; it does not have any videos visible to the public. On Instagram, one video apparently recorded during the standoff remains. [...] A second video, now deleted, showed a police officer with a gun drawn at Gaines' door. Facebook and Instagram have not responded to NPR's requests for comment.
[...] "Gaines was posting video of the operation as it unfolded. Followers were encouraging her not to comply with negotiators' requests that she surrender peacefully," he said. "Clearly, you can see this was an exigent circumstance where life and serious injury were in jeopardy." After a short period of time, Facebook (which owns Instagram) complied and deactivated the accounts. No data was deleted, Johnson said. Police do not have the authority to directly deactivate a social media account, Johnson and the spokeswoman both said. Facebook decides whether to comply with such requests.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @01:23PM
you two kiss ass traitors probably talked shit about the people at waco and ruby ridge basd on what the tv whores told you too. While kids and dogs were being run over with tanks or sprayed in the back with an mp5, you were calling them "nutters" and "wack jobs" even though they have a constitutional right to believe in whatever made up god they want or to sell guns to their fellow americans (illegal laws about barrel length not withstanding). I don't blame the pigs for wanting tactical superiority but facebook is chickenshit for shutting her account off. Of course, people are stupid for acting like facebook is legitimate/trustworthy to begin with.
People are sick of government leeches and their henchmen using force, or the threat of force, on people just because they think they should have control. People are finally realizing that they are free ,if only they believe in it and stand up for it. You pieces of shit fund the thieves and applaud their hired killers. Justice comes for you too.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday August 04 2016, @02:12PM
Traitor? She would have had her day in court if she hadn't refused to show up.
As for Waco and Ruby Ridge those aren't even remotely the same thing. She apparently thought she was above the law, refused to turn herself in and then took her son hostage while she tried to fight off the cops. How else was this going to end. Bottom line is that you assume that there wouldn't have been a change if they hadn't removed her social media access, but the evidence we have suggests that her contacts were just egging her on.
It's not like we're going to be able to do a double blind A/B test here to see which strategy was going to be the superior one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @07:41PM
I'd encourage you to dig deeper to find the root cause of action here. The root problem was not that Korryn Gaines refused to show up in court, it was that she was pulled over via threat of force because a cop noticed she didn't have a license plate on her car.
My journey to discover the limits of governments' authority started with the self-contradictory nature of USian gun bans and ended with: "if I as a single individual do not have authority to do a thing, neither can I then delegate that same authority to a government" [soylentnews.org]. If I were to forcibly stop someone on the side of the road because they didn't have proper ornamentation on their vehicle, I'd be guilty of false imprisonment, assault, and other literal crimes. The traffic cop had no more authority to forcibly stop Korryn Gaines than I do, because the cop's authority is solely derived from my own!
A huge percentage of the problems we face as a society is due to the this disregard for the easily-discerned limits of government power in favor of our preferred flavor of rank tyranny/criminality.