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posted by on Monday January 23 2017, @10:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the putin-must-be-heard dept.

TechCrunch reports on January 19:

Russian state-funded media company RT (previously Russia Today) was temporarily banned from posting content to Facebook — a move that would have prevented the organization form posting articles, photos or video to the social network until Saturday, the day after Trump's inauguration. However, Facebook says now that it has lifted the ban, and will look into the reasons behind the block.

"All the features for this page owner have now been restored. We are looking into the reasons behind the temporary block," a Facebook spokesperson said.

Separately, RT claimed that it had been blocked by Dataminr, which provides analytics on top of the firehose of Tweets on Twitter to parse and alert its customers about when things happen. It's used by media and other organizations to track Tweets for news and other large events.

The Facebook ban would have allowed RT to post text updates to Facebook, but not other media content.

According to a post on RT's website, the ban would have lasted until Saturday, 2:55 PM EST. The reason for the block is being attributed to an illegal live-stream of President Obama's final press conference Wednesday. But RT denies this, saying they were running an AP stream of the event instead.

More coverage at The Guardian, Business Insider, The Independent, The Canary


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Monday January 23 2017, @03:43PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Monday January 23 2017, @03:43PM (#457662)

    Since about 80% of the nation's population has their face stuck up Facefook's crack

    Exactly, since they are the news aggregator most people use it matters that they are openly censoring. And banning RT over some obvious and stupid thing like where a NEWS AGENCY is getting a video stream of a NEWS EVENT (i.e. a press conference) is nothing less than a middle finger to RT and Russia; and RT knows damned well Zuckerberg didn't make that decision as it it far above his pay grade.

    Disagree with RT all you want (I certainly do) but they are as much a news agency as the utterly biased NYT, CNN or an outright state owned (and biased) media operation like the BBC or DW. Every "news" outlet has an agenda, the only way to approximate the truth is watching them with the bias in mind. I read RT to see what Narrative Putin is wanting to push exactly the same way I watch NBC's _Meet the Press_ to see the DNC's Narrative or _Fox News Sunday_ to see the Establishment Republican position. And Putin's Narrative matters, it shouldn't be censored. The central foreign policy question right now is "Putin: Friend, Foe or Frenemy"

    It is time for a law here. If they want to maintain their common carrier status systems can't ban anyone who files a statement of financial responsibility and legal representation. I.e. Facebook can ban me if I post something questionable because if they don't the copyright holder can sue Facebook under the DMCA or even drag them into other lawsuits if they don't take it down. Fair enough. But if a person or entity delivers proper notice that they stand ready to defend their content that should cut the middleman like Facebook out.

    The only part of the right/ultraright/whateverright that readily bans you for arguing with them, are places like stormfront.

    Try Redstate.com. Bet you can get yourself banned from there too. Took me less than two months. It wasn't even over politics, it was an argument with their tech columnist over some choice idiocy. Most of the Right really doesn't understand tech. But go get yourself banned because the way they do it is humorous enough to make it worth it. Everyone there lived in fear of the ban hammer, almost everyone there had been banned at least once it was so bad. Maybe it is better since they ditched Eric Erickson.

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