Will hatred and intolerance of alternate viewpoints in science trump free speech? Some would have it that way.
Via Climate NEXUS, a well funded daily newsletter run by a Madison Avenue PR firm.
Will Facebook Ban Deniers?
Breitbart brought our attention to a petition that calls on Facebook to ban climate change denial pages. With only 3,326 signatories out of a goal of 500,000, it doesn’t seem like the petition is going to accomplish its goal—and probably for good reason.
As bad as climate denial is, shutting them out of Facebook would justify their persecution complex, and might engender more sympathy for their position. Really, who treats Facebook as a place to discuss science? For the most part, we think denier groups are small enough that they pretty much serve as something to point and laugh at, because they’re not likely to be gain many converts when compared to the audience of Murdoch’s media empire.
That said, the petition actually has a point. Facebook doesn’t have too many rules, but the very last one reads that, “Pages must not contain false, misleading, fraudulent or deceptive claims or content.”
The question then, is whether or not claims that say global warming has stopped and an ice age is imminent, that climate scientists are fudging the data, or that Climategate showed wrongdoing would all fall under false, misleading and deceptive claims. We don’t know what else you would call them, so perhaps a ban would be warranted after all.
Though surprising, Facebook wouldn’t be the first social media site to crack down on climate deniers. In 2013, the science page of the social media giant reddit announced that any claims contradicting the consensus on climate change, evolution and vaccines must be supported by a peer-reviewed citation. Given that climate denial is almost never peer-reviewed, this resulted in a de facto ban on posts from climate change deniers.
Will Facebook follow suit? Probably not. But under their rules, it sounds like they could.
Sidenote: in the same Climate NEXUS issue, this is what they claim are “respectful” suggestions for the next Heartland conference
Well, at least this thread hasn’t been taken over by the Know Nothings – YET.
Of course, it veered off-topic immediately.
However the truth still counts.
“The evolutionists have lost the argument with 40% of the American public–that many are YOUNG-Earth Creationists. ”
Two separate claims. One is close enough. The other is far enough away to be fairly labelled false.
“Pages must not contain false, misleading, fraudulent or deceptive claims or content.”
That says it all. It’s just the misled warmist alarmists who got it wrong.
Ian M
“Pages must not contain false, misleading, fraudulent or deceptive claims or content.”
Is this stuff okay ?….
“There is no pause”
“Sea level would rise 20 feet flooding much of Florida”
“I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”
“The missing heat is in the deep ocean”
“Urban Heat Islands are not a factor and need no adjustment”
“Phil and I are likely to have to respond to more crap criticisms from the idiots in the near future.”
I don’t understand where “Nexus” comes in. I clicked the link, and there’s nothing at the “Nexus” site about a campaign to censor Facebook.
Why does anybody use Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg is an untrustworthy sociopath. The Winklevoss twins were starting a social networking site in 2003 (connectu.com). They hired Zuckerberg to work on their website. He delayed and delayed, and meanwhile got his “thefacebook.com” website up and running, using the concepts behind ConnectU. The Winklevoss twins sued in court and got a $65 million dollar award, but the damage had already been done. ConnectU is no more, and Facebook is big. See for the gory details. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnectU
Zuckerberg has absolute contempt for his users. Warning the following website is NOT SAFE FOR WORK, due to Zuckerberg’s strong language http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook?currentPage=all and i quote (with a few asterisks)
The last expletive is not asterisked on the webpage. Also Facebook has been agressively reducing the privacy levels of all user content. See the graphic at http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/ for details. Oh, and you can no longer set your profile to be unsearchable. See http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/10/facebook-search-privacy/ I do not trust Facebook, and nobody should.
And I was thinking they wanted us flogged or jailed.
All the best. NIGEL.
So should we not be asking for the fraudulent claims “against” and ice age” to be closed down?
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/06/25/mike-lockwood-sun-has-no-influence-on-climate-except-when-it-does/
Great news. Will sign the petition asap.