Sarah Palin vs Facebook and Social Media

Another happening today I wonder if Rush will get to. It does have over-arcing questions, on "automatic" systems that go in and delete posts that a computer deems is racist...or websites that are taken down by their ISPs because someone complains, and the website owner gets no warning and no explanation...if Sarah Palin weren't Sarah Palin, would that Facebook entry have been re-instated?

And by the way, I've started a blog keeping track of the news media's reporting of Sarah Palin, called Sarah Palin News Report


Sarah Palin Facebook Post Deleted, Thanks to "Social Experiment"
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/07/23/sarah-palin-facebook-post-deleted-thanks-social-experiment/

The mystery behind a vanishing Facebook post by Sarah Palin that railed against a planned Ground Zero mosque has been cleared up. She fell victim to a “social experiment.”

Facebook's terms of service prohibit users from posting content that is hateful, threatening, incites violence or contains nudity or graphic violence. But that's not why a blogger called on readers to report a post by Palin, which described a mosque being built on Ground Zero in New York City as "an intolerable mistake."

Explaining his actions, Tumblr blogger Moneyries wrote "This is not really about ‘refudiating’ Sarah Palin. It was a social experiment to explore the boundaries of Facebook’s government-like Terms and Conditions and the power of the Tumblr community."