Time magazine's Protester cover reminds us of the value of Big Media12-30-2011 Global:
I'm sure by now folks know that Facebook has a Comments Social Plugin for use by any site, which only allows folks with a Facebook account (or if plugin option is turned on AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo addresses) to post comments on any site using the Facebook Social Plugin. Facebook's intent was to eliminate anonymous comments because they consider them harmful, spam and basically useless to any discussion.
From the Facebook Developers Blog comes this which also gives us an idea of what Facebook is focusing on:
More Social Relevance:The upgraded Comments Box (i.e., Facebook's Social Plugin) uses social signals to surface the highest quality comments for each user. Comments are ordered to show users the most relevant comments from friends, friends of friends, and the most liked or active discussion threads, while comments marked as spam are hidden from view.It is clear that Facebook is censoring the Internet and only allowing what their "Social Signals" (Undefined) chose. Effectively Facebook is selectively choosing who they consider acceptable to post comments even through other sites which use the Facebook social Plugin. These other sites are opting to use the plugin because of one feature of it, Facebook supposedly only allows accounts from verifiable persons. So these other sites are in effect being slyly tricked into censoring the Internet as well.
The following very questionable comments (updated as we find more) are allowed by Facebook, with no sanction for violating any terms of agreement, and fit the kind of comment Facebook considers acceptable:
DSS employee who was fired for Facebook comments withdraws petition
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Fla. deputy suspended over Facebook comments
Sacked Apple employee loses appeal over negative Facebook comments
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Facebook comments lead to fight in yard
N.Y.C. Police Maligned Paradegoers on Facebook
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