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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: 3, Informative) by RamiK on Monday May 27 2019, @02:12AM
They have an AI doing the shutdowns to maintain their safe harbor status. Unfortunately health and fitness groups like CrossFit match the characteristics of a radicalized cult with their closed echo-chamber group-think and limited ethnic, age, national, political and gender diversity.
The real failure however is their review process: It's most likely a manual process that's only triggered following a complaint ticket, takes a while to process and is limited to reversing shutdowns by down-rating the associated decision tree to avoid legal complications.
There's naturally a real whitelist that covers political parties, major religions, governments, academic boards and a few select high-profile businesses... But it's likely operated by a small group of middle-managers and requires an approval from upper-management for any new entry.
TL;DR Facebook doesn't squat.
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