Facebook's Final #ZUCKUP
Ever since Facebook became an indispensable aspect of our lives, there has been a growing sense of foreboding that something is not quite right, a premonition that eventually we would need to make a total break with the site. In recent weeks, however, the importance of the social network for fomenting insurrections abroad has led many of us to conclude that Facebook was on the verge of transcending its narrow commercial concerns, that it was on the brink of elevating itself into a neutral platform for social revolution. Yesterday, our hopes were finally dashed.
On March 29, Facebook callously deleted the organizing page for the Third Intifada, a call for a Palestinian popular uprising to shake off Israel's brutal occupation that had over 200,000 supporters. The Third Intifada's Twitter and Google-owned YouTube pages still exist. Facebook's act of suppression is an unforgivable #ZUCKUP, may it be the last.
The first major #ZUCKUP was the commercialization of friendship. The second disturbing #ZUCKUP was the remorseless pursuit of privacy-invasive technologies. The third #ZUCKUP, the one that will be remembered as the final nail in Facebook's coffin, is the cynical attempt to stand in the way of history by blocking the people's worldwide movement toward self-governance and democracy.
Let us now kill Facebook with this #ZUCKUP campaign. Pull your allegiance, delete your account and watch for the day that Facebook implodes spectacularly.
In committing communal Facebook suicide, we will open up the possibility of new activist innovations, improved social apps for revolt, fresh perspectives on how to turn online passion into real world action.
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Anonymous222
60 years huh? When you go to Israel and see the millions of Jewish people living there, its a bit harder to live in denial of their existence. You're not the first one to try.
Anonymous222
60 years huh? When you go to Israel and see the millions of Jewish people living there, its a bit harder to live in denial of their existence. You're not the first one to try.
onomatis
Goof for face-book indeed.
The US backed state of Israel's tendency to come into people's houses to forcefully evict them, and then to bulldoze the houses involves much harsher, much more criminal gestures. And I'm only hinting at all the murder and terror involved in these violent projects.
onomatis
Goof for face-book indeed.
The US backed state of Israel's tendency to come into people's houses to forcefully evict them, and then to bulldoze the houses involves much harsher, much more criminal gestures. And I'm only hinting at all the murder and terror involved in these violent projects.
Ali Abdul Raqib
we have to take this into account, it is sad that they would shut 200,000 followers whose views are very serious to them and to those that are in the movement around the world. Another corporate, zionist, government networking page to control us from what we can share. The revolution starts with us, we make up a population that can stop anything, if we just put down the remote, unplug the TV and the playstations. Then rise above this oligarchy.
Ali Abdul Raqib
we have to take this into account, it is sad that they would shut 200,000 followers whose views are very serious to them and to those that are in the movement around the world. Another corporate, zionist, government networking page to control us from what we can share. The revolution starts with us, we make up a population that can stop anything, if we just put down the remote, unplug the TV and the playstations. Then rise above this oligarchy.
Reid
Diaspora is starting to become an option - there are open servers that cover most of the world and can be found here: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Community-supported-pods
Obviously it isn't as sophisticated as Facebook yet, so I would recommend anyone who uses Facebook for large-scale organisation might want to keep their profile for now, but soon there will be a real, ethical alternative!
Reid
Diaspora is starting to become an option - there are open servers that cover most of the world and can be found here: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Community-supported-pods
Obviously it isn't as sophisticated as Facebook yet, so I would recommend anyone who uses Facebook for large-scale organisation might want to keep their profile for now, but soon there will be a real, ethical alternative!
Anonymous222
Diaspora is better option for Palestinians, considering that fact that several Arab Muslim countries are very close by :)
Anonymous222
Diaspora is better option for Palestinians, considering that fact that several Arab Muslim countries are very close by :)
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