Freedom From Facebook Day: Conservatives Urge 24-Hour Boycott Of Social Network

A group of conservative activists and bloggers is promoting a 24-hour boycott of Facebook July 4 as a response to their claim that Facebook is censoring conservative content and blocking users. So how is Freedom from Facebook Day being promoted? As a Facebook event, naturally.

A group of conservative activists and bloggers is promoting a 24-hour boycott of Facebook July 4 as a response to their claim that Facebook is censoring conservative content and blocking users. So how is Freedom from Facebook Day being promoted? As a Facebook event, naturally.

The event was created by Joe Newby, an Idaho blogger and columnist for Examiner.com, who highlighted several examples of what he called anti-conservative censorship by the social network, telling The Daily Beast:

All it takes is pretty much the click of a mouse, and a person’s reputation or livelihood is destroyed.

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