Basil Jet wrote:

Why would someone be banned from Facebook for publicising a demo?

As I understand it he broke the rules on contacting too many people at ask.
I was once temporarily banned for knowing too many people.

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:39:11 +0100, "Basil Jet"
wrote:

Paul Corfield wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:16:14 +0100, Arthur Figgis
wrote:

The Sutton - Croydon night bus service went this month,
which is a pain.

It was not an intentional cut back so it is actually unfair to
suggest this is as a result of a directive from City Hall to save
money or the result of a TfL directed cut. I broadly know what
happened and what was intended and "cock up" is the best
explanation of where we have got to.


http://www.suttonguardian.co.uk/news...st_attracts_10
0_after_Facebook_plea
More than a hundred young people and parents converged on Wallington
town centre last night to protest against the axing of the N213
night-bus service.
The campaign to reinstate the bus began on Facebook, with the online
group approaching 3,000 members.
Liberal Democrat MP, Tom Brake, who has been banned from Facebook
after publicising the demonstration [snip]

Why would someone be banned from Facebook for publicising a demo?

Who cares?

Tom certainly does!

I completely fail to see the point of Facebook. A load of hype over
substance and an appalling risk to people's identities.

I have to agree with your there. Organised embarrassment!

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Basil Jet wrote:
Paul Corfield wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:16:14 +0100, Arthur Figgis
wrote:
The Sutton - Croydon night bus
service went this month, which is a pain.
It was not an intentional cut back

??? Well, the buses ain't there no more...!

so it is actually unfair to suggest
this is as a result of a directive from City Hall to save money or the
result of a TfL directed cut. I broadly know what happened and what
was intended and "cock up" is the best explanation of where we have
got to.

Sounds interesting! Surely the operator can't unilaterally pull out of
part of a bus route in London?

At risk of being lynched by friends back at home, it does leave quite an
area with no nocturnal services.

http://www.suttonguardian.co.uk/news...aceb ook_plea
More than a hundred young people and parents converged on Wallington town
centre last night to protest against the axing of the N213 night-bus
service.
The campaign to reinstate the bus began on Facebook, with the online group
approaching 3,000 members.
Liberal Democrat MP, Tom Brake, who has been banned from Facebook after
publicising the demonstration [snip]

Why would someone be banned from Facebook for publicising a demo?

It seems Facebook detected a sudden spike in traffic, so their systems
automatically (and temporarily) pulled the pages in case there was
something undesirable going on:
http://www.libdemvoice.org/facebook-...unt-15607.html

(or at least that's what the members of the illuminati who control TfL's
secret hotline to Facebook want people to think)

My ISP did something similar to an otherwise obscure website which I run
when an online magazine in Russia linked to a particular page, and the
traffic went through the roof for about 24 h.

--
Arthur Figgis

On 31 July, 19:39, "Basil Jet"
wrote:
Paul Corfield wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:16:14 +0100, Arthur Figgis
wrote:

The Sutton - Croydon night bus
service went this month, which is a pain.

It was not an intentional cut back so it is actually unfair to suggest
this is as a result of a directive from City Hall to save money or the
result of a TfL directed cut. *I broadly know what happened and what
was intended and "cock up" is the best explanation of where we have
got to.

http://www.suttonguardian.co.uk/news...protest_attrac...
More than a hundred young people and parents converged on Wallington town
centre last night to protest against the axing of the N213 night-bus
service.
The campaign to reinstate the bus began on Facebook, with the online group
approaching 3,000 members.
Liberal Democrat MP, Tom Brake, who has been banned from Facebook after
publicising the demonstration [snip]

Why would someone be banned from Facebook for publicising a demo?

I assume it means "banned", ie disciplined, by his party; not by
Facebook?

MIG wrote:
On 31 July, 19:39, "Basil Jet"
wrote:
Paul Corfield wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:16:14 +0100, Arthur Figgis
wrote:
The Sutton - Croydon night bus
service went this month, which is a pain.
It was not an intentional cut back so it is actually unfair to suggest
this is as a result of a directive from City Hall to save money or the
result of a TfL directed cut. I broadly know what happened and what
was intended and "cock up" is the best explanation of where we have
got to.
http://www.suttonguardian.co.uk/news...protest_attrac...
More than a hundred young people and parents converged on Wallington town
centre last night to protest against the axing of the N213 night-bus
service.
The campaign to reinstate the bus began on Facebook, with the online group
approaching 3,000 members.
Liberal Democrat MP, Tom Brake, who has been banned from Facebook after
publicising the demonstration [snip]

Why would someone be banned from Facebook for publicising a demo?

I assume it means "banned", ie disciplined, by his party; not by
Facebook?

No, it's just wrong. There seems to be a new use of "banned" which is
becoming common, meaning "stopped" or "someting went wrong" or "chose
something else".


--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

In article
,
(MIG) wrote:

On 31 July, 19:39, "Basil Jet"
wrote:
Liberal Democrat MP, Tom Brake, who has been banned from Facebook
after publicising the demonstration [snip]

Why would someone be banned from Facebook for publicising a demo?

I assume it means "banned", ie disciplined, by his party; not by
Facebook?

Certainly not that!

--
Colin Rosenstiel