It came to our attention yesterday when we were sharing WUWT articles, that Facebook now treats WUWT articles as “abusive”. Apparently this is a new tactic of the warmists to abuse the FB abuse process in order to suppress free speech. WUWT readers have reported that this has also started happening on other skeptic blogs with their articles.
Until Anthony gets back, when we can see about a more permanent solution, we want to encourage our readers to all share WUWT articles via your Facebook accounts, and when FB gives you “this is an abusive site” pop-up, as seen in the graphic above, to click the “Let us know” appeal link to submit an appeal. Hopefully if FB staff start seeing enough appeals from enough of our readers, that they will realize that their system is being gamed by our opponents.
While on FB, we encourage you to join the WUWT FB group.
UPDATE: As of this moment, new WUWT articles are posting to FB without the abuse warning, but anything from yesterday or days prior is getting the warning and requires an appeal. Apparently whoever has been up to these games hasn’t gotten online yet today. We still encourage our readers to help ensure that WUWT articles are able to be shared on FB without interference, and to ensure that other skeptic blogs are also able to be published on Facebook. It’s clear that the warmists are engaging in guerrilla tactics now.
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Funny how ‘science blog of the year’ can me called abusive. Politics has no conscience.
Naw, not guerilla tactics, just desperate establishment tactics. The Gorillas are winning.
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I know this firsthand, been banned twice and now not able to comment on a page I was able to see. Checking now, seems “someone” has removed certain pages, almost all in fact.
This is bad news for AGW supporters.
This, the complaints and legal actions against Delingpole and Dr. Ball, make no mistake, this is the new front in the climate wars. This is the result of all the leftist sponsored seminars and confabs to work on “messaging.” Messaging means shutting the opposition up using dishonest and unethical legal tactics and every other means they can think of. This will get even uglier before it’s over, these cretins see their corrupt money and power schemes threatened.
It’s really idiotic ‘guerilla’ tactic, too. Everyone who posted an article meant for someone to read it. When the word spreads that ‘global warming’ skepticism is now something to be censored, it will gain cachet.
Sweet, sweet, sweet. Own GOAL!
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It’s already blocked! When I get to my desktop I’ll file an appeal.
And now it isn’t blocked, so I didn’t get to fire off a scathing appeal. 🙂
Great, another Google supporting bad science and pretending to be an innocent fair broker.
Just one more reason I’m close to suspending my FB account. Very close
wonders if there is a smell of stoat in the air…
George Soros’ money has tentacles everywhere….
Fight the elitist Machine.
I don’t have a facebook account because I have real friends who I can actually count on the fingers of two hands. I had no desire to have 42,000 friends I had never met, reading all of my personal musings.
Ah well, maybe now is the time I should make an account and have WUWT as my real friend…. 😉
I hope it does not cost me anything. Into the breach dear friends….
I noticed something similar with the WOT (Web of Trust) add-on for firefox. It flags up dubious sites but does so entirely on the votes of users. Until recently I hadn’t noticed anything particularly odd and the only sites I noticed flagged up as red looked like they might well be dodgy in terms of safety, spam etc.
Recently however I went to a perfectly legitimate site on a well-known blogging platform and it was flagged up as red. The only reason I can think of for this is because it is a sceptical site about a subject which is as hotly debated as CAGW. I won’t name it just to avoid sidetracking the issue, but it can only be because people – similar to the warmists – are trying to put the uninitiated off going to the the site solely because they disagree with the opinions – and facts – expressed there.
It’s a reminder of what the warmists could do and the only way to combat it (as WOT washed their hands of the whole issue) is to give sites such as WUWT and other sceptical sites good ratings on WOT and other such applications.
It’s an undesirable situation but the only way to defeat any concerted effort at censorship.
They have no scruples, but, please, sceptics, let’s not sink to their level. We need to stick to the facts and debate respectfully in order for our arguments to be heard.
Well, so far THIS article is staying put….I’m going to check the others.
They are still there. No problem so far. Time to consider making copies with different URL’s? Is that OK?
I got blocked went posting this article to facebook. In the “reason” column I stated that global warming activists are blocking WUWT articles because they have different opinions and that users blocking WUWT articles as abusive should be banned from using facebook.
As an aside, I also tried sending the link as an email to a facebook friend and was similarly denied.
[I recommend just putting “Watts Up With That? is the number one science blog on the internet.” and this should get it through, all of my appeals have been approved – MikeL]
I wrote this WUWT post (& my 3 comments in the thread) objectively:
Semi-annual solar-terrestrial power.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/23/confirmation-of-solar-forcing-of-the-semi-annual-variation-of-length-of-day/
If someone — anyone — finds the post “abusive”, I demand an explanation.
Sincerely,
Paul L. Vaughan, M.Sc.
How was it determined that it was WUWT that was being blocked and not the Sydney demo?
Either way this is nothing new. It is exactly what has been going on in Wikipediatric since at least 2007. Any sub-normal can start undoing anything that isn’t in total agreement with his person belief system and then some zealot who has worked his way upto admin will ban you on some crap technicality or false claims and it will take you months to clear up the mess and get your account reactivated.
The trouble is most of these poor fools do really believe that they are out to “save the planet” , a notion so moral and irreproachable that all rules of normal fair play and simple good reasoning get thrown out of the window and they embark on their eco-jihad with the blessing of Gaia.
They are religious fanatics.
There are others higher up the food chain who know exactly what the con is and are playing it for all they can get.
It is useful to keep that in mind in deciding who you are dealing with and how to respond.
[The graphic generated is from today, after having had a half dozen stories blocked yesterday, which I did not capture graphics for. Other moderators have seen bans, and several readers also reported the abuse ban when they tried to share on FB yesterday. This is a blanket ban. – MikeL]
Seems if you try to post to FB directly from WUWT you get the “abusive” block. However, if you go to your profile on FB and enter the link it works fine.
Didn’t I just here this week that some Dem was complaining about those who disagree with the Dems wanting to shut shut them down in mid-sentence? I know that was political but it still applies and in essence this is also political. Science is no longer science but politics.
just confirms why im a skeptic and proud of it.
I would be extremely careful with posting anything on a lukewarmer or warmist site. They will use all your personal information if any, against you, including your email ect., be forewarned!
My blog (can be accessed by clicking my screen name, written in swedish) is also being blocked this way. I have never even considered being on Facebook at all so this move is strange. I think there are some people who go through the blogs and look for views such as this blog and others. Strange behaviour on behalf of some people.
/Carl
It seems to me that there is something in the mentality of many AGW supporters that makes it their prime task to try to shut up anybody of opposing views. Like others here I have tried to engage in debate on this subject with such people but a common response is to ignore all of the points that I politely raise and respond with personal abuse. Most people don’t enjoy being continually abused so this tactic usually succeeds in sending another dissenting voice elsewhere.
A related tactic, again familiar to many here, is to abuse any scientists or others who are referred to in support by an opponent of AGW. ‘Big Oil’ money etc is commonly alleged as the only reason for such reports being produced. This tactic is so ingrained that supporting reports and links are often (insultingly) requested by AGW supporters solely so that such rubbishing can be carried out. It angers them when you don’t play the game in that manner.
I don’t think this is co-ordinated in some sort of conspiracy. I think it is simply that there are a lot of true believers out there and they think that shutting up ‘deniers’ is their part of saving the planet. It is like the (far more) awful things done by religious believers over the years to ‘protect’ their saviour, prophet, god or whoever when if their religion is true no such protection is needed.
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Johann says:
April 9, 2011 at 9:55 am
I would be extremely careful with posting anything on a lukewarmer or warmist site. They will use all your personal information if any, against you, including your email ect., be forewarned!
I concur. I had a brief dalliance with the parrots at Grist. Holy Cow, you don’t want to be skeptical in there…unless you have a thick skin and a good spam filter.