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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
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 26 2019, @08:58PM (7 children)
Play ball and the media will praise you to high heaven. Doubt their narrative publicly, like FB's done by showing that Russians spent barely $50k in ads rather than some vast effort, and they will trash talk you to being the next MySpace.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 26 2019, @09:43PM (3 children)
Saw this quote over at BAR:
"The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --Malcolm X
(Score: 3, Touché) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday May 26 2019, @10:31PM (1 child)
So that's where Rupert Murdoch got the idea.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 26 2019, @10:46PM
Traditional news media is a money-loser, but vital infrastructure for the owners to influence opinion their way.
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Tuesday May 28 2019, @01:26AM
I ran across an example of this earlier this week.
The Chicago Times Tweet/Headline: https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/status/1131358003930836993 [twitter.com]
The real story is "Man shot while attempting to carjack a concealed carry permit holder has died".
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 26 2019, @09:47PM (1 child)
I'm confused. Did anyone ever think that Russia bought their way into election manipulation? Using fake accounts is so much cheaper and probably much more effective, so why would they spend money?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 26 2019, @10:42PM
They needed money to push propaganda groups into the streams of Facebook users. The media showcased a few, they were ridiculous fakes of real groups, things like "Americans for black lives" or so. It was so ridiculous I don't know if the Russian propaganda effort was really that lame, or that it was fake news planted by the deep state to cast blame on Russia.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 27 2019, @11:47AM
so you're implying that crossfit is actually the aggressor here and that this is all part of some anti-facegag cabal that was set loose after facegag revealed some phony number about russian advertisement spending?
Can someone flag this comment as insane consensus-cracking whataboutism? I can't believe this person is real.
The real obvious problem is that we got bit in the ass again by someone claiming that, once more, 'if we just centralize the internet, everything will work out great!'
5 years later the centralized internet entity shows its true stripes, continues apace trying to centralize and police the human entire space of human ideology, business, politics and everything else.
Hiring no doubt propagandists to visit even the most obscure forums where it might be criticized to crack any attempt at consensus forming against it.
Beware. Corporations and capitalists will not fix the internet, they've been trying to break it since the beginning.
Kanye was right about at least, and maybe only, one thing: they are lying to you. (i.e. it's not a place for friends, it's a place for enemies)