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posted by janrinok on Sunday May 26 2019, @07:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the fit-of-pique dept.

CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Services

CrossFit has announced in a press release that it has closed its Facebook accounts as of May 22, 2019. CrossFit is an almost 20 year old branded fitness regimen. Its press release goes into quite a bit of detail into the problems caused by use of Facebook and its subsidiary services such as Instagram and enumerates eight specific examples of deal-breakers.

Earlier on SN:
Facebook Still Tracks You After You Deactivate Your Account (2019)
Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. (2018)
Why No One Trusts Facebook (2014)

CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Properties After Unexplained Ban

CrossFit, Inc. defends relentlessly the right of its affiliates, trainers, and athletes to practice CrossFit, build voluntary CrossFit associations and businesses, and speak openly and freely about the ideas and principles that animate our views of exercise, nutrition, and health. This website—and, until recently, CrossFit's Facebook and Instagram accounts—has long catalogued CrossFit's tireless defense of its community against overreaching governments, malicious competitors, and corrupt academic organizations.

Recently, Facebook deleted without warning or explanation the Banting7DayMealPlan user group. The group has 1.65 million users who post testimonials and other information regarding the efficacy of a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet. While the site has subsequently been reinstated (also without warning or explanation), Facebook's action should give any serious person reason to pause, especially those of us engaged in activities contrary to prevailing opinion.

https://www.crossfit.com/battles/crossfit-suspends-facebook-instagram


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 26 2019, @08:15PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 26 2019, @08:15PM (#847973)

    "Real science" has made the US the most unhealthy it has ever been in history.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 26 2019, @09:52PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 26 2019, @09:52PM (#847998)

    I don't think "real science" had much to do with it. The sciences that have formed and informed the US' food policy are economics and marketing. I hesitate to call those real sciences.

    • (Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Tuesday May 28 2019, @01:21AM

      by ElizabethGreene (6748) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 28 2019, @01:21AM (#848366) Journal

      I don't think "real science" had much to do with it.

      You are mistaken. The very best science we had said that low salt, low fat, high carbohydrates diets were optimal for human nutrition. This was researched, published, peer-reviewed, taught, preached, and codified as public policy.

      No revisionist history here please.