Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Facebook and George Beier? The Saga that Won't End

So this Facebook and George Beier thing doesn't want to end.

My facebook group: "Who is George Beier? Kinda Creepy" is no longer searchable.

The group still exists but if you try to find it on Facebook... Good luck!

The settings on this group are for it to be open to the public. So it makes me suspect that Facebook is trying to limit who sees this group.

I suspect that they realized their censorship was causing a buzz in the Berkeley Online community and perhaps when a journalist or two contacted them they might have freaked out and wanted to limit their damage.

So they figured that if people couldn't find this group, they couldn't judge for themselves if the content merited political censorship. Is that savy or scary? What is Facebook about anyways?

Here's a couple links from my blog where can up-to-date on this saga:

Facebook & Politics: Poor Mix

A New Era: Facebook, Politics and Free Speech?

Update:

After doing alittle research, I learned that Beier lost by 131 votes. Could my campaign of truth had anything to do with these 131 votes? I can tell you for sure that I contacted a hell of a lot of my friends and I posted this mess the UC Berkeley livejournal community & many other places that Cal students frequent.

I wonder...

Update II (11:23pm):

So this is the real figure from the election:

Kriss Worthington- 1893
George Beier - 1679

The total vote difference is 214. So after alittle research, I'm going to say that my little campaign for truth probably didn't do a whole lot but maybe it did sway it - at a conservative guess- maybe 20-30 votes. I'm not going to pretend that I have any influence on likely voters- but I can hope.

Here's the source for my info.

0 comments: