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Clinton Trolls Shut Down Pro-Sanders Facebook Groups on the Eve of Elections

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday April 27 2016, @12:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the gotta-love-social-media dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

US Uncut reports:

Some of the biggest pro-Bernie Sanders groups on Facebook were briefly taken down Monday evening in a targeted attack by Hillary Clinton supporters.

The groups Bernie Sanders Activists, Bernie Believers, BERNIE OR BUST, Bernie Sanders Revolutionaries, Bay Area for Bernie, Bernie Sanders 2016 — Ideas Welcome, Bernie Sanders is my HERO, and Bernie Sanders for President 2016 were all taken down in the attack. The pages in question were reported to be down for about three hours, from 9 p.m. to midnight Monday night.

Collectively, these groups are home to more than a quarter million Bernie Sanders supporters, and some have been in existence for nearly a year, having been launched shortly after the Vermont senator declared his intent to run for president in 2015.

The groups were targeted by online trolls, who posted pornographic images and reported the groups to Facebook admins.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @04:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @04:02PM (#337999)

    Regardless, the one sure way to make sure nothing changes is to hide behind nihilism as an excuse for doing nothing.

    Despite all its flaws, Obamacare was a tangible improvement over the status quo. Same thing with gay marriage.
    Change is always incremental.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @10:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @10:32PM (#338170)

    It wasn't an improvement. It was a doubling down on all the worst aspects of our prior system, which itself was a combination of the worst aspects of a free market with the worst aspects of a socialized system. The new one is better, I grant you, for the insurance companies, but the majority of people in the country are not insurance companies.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 28 2016, @05:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 28 2016, @05:02AM (#338283)

    Obamacare was a tangible improvement over the status quo

    I have several friends who are in desperate need of medical care in some form and they can't get it under Obamacare. Other friends who aren't paid a lot had an increase in how much they paid for insurance. Not an improvement.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 28 2016, @05:29AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 28 2016, @05:29AM (#338291)

      I am currently 'looking for insurance' as I am between jobs.

      The *best* I have found is ~13,000 dollars a year with a 10k deductible. That is for 2 adults with no children. In what universe is that affordable? Maybe for someone who makes 250k a year. It sure does not match the title of the bill. I will keep looking but it is not hopeful. I do not even need insurance right now (probably will not for 15-20 years). But I have to pay boatloads for it.