{"id":123194,"date":"2019-05-26T18:56:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T22:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=123194"},"modified":"2019-05-26T18:56:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T22:56:13","slug":"crossfit-quits-facebook-morphs-into-big-social-media-control-freak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=123194","title":{"rendered":"Crossfit Quits, Facebook Morphs Into <i>Big Social Media<\/i> Control Freak"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>CrossFit quits Facebook, Instagram, accuses social media giant of censorship, being &#8216;utopian socialists&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p>By Lukas Mikelionis | Fox News<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=6035324472001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why &#8216;breaking up&#8217; Facebook might be hard to do<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5>Sources tell Fox News that breaking up America&#8217;s big tech companies carries serious national security consequences; Gillian Turner reports.<\/h5>\n<p class=\"speakable\">CrossFit, the branded workout regimen, accused Facebook of being \u201cutopian socialists\u201d and left the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/tech\/topics\/big-tech-backlash\">platform<\/a>\u00a0after the social network deleted a group dedicated to a diet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The move to quit both\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/tech\/companies\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Instagram came in the wake of the decision to delete \u201cwithout warning or explanation the Banting7DayMealPlan,\u201d a group that advocated a diet aimed at eating \u201cfood that is as close to its natural state as possible \u2014 free from processing, additives, preservatives and sugar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The group suspension was later overturned, but CrossFit issued a lengthy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossfit.com\/battles\/crossfit-suspends-facebook-instagram\">statement<\/a>\u00a0announcing the end of their presence on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll activity on CrossFit, Inc.\u2019s Facebook and Instagram accounts was suspended as of May 22, 2019, as CrossFit investigates the circumstances pertaining to Facebook\u2019s deletion of the Banting7DayMealPlan and other well-known public complaints about the social-media company that may adversely impact the security and privacy of our global CrossFit community,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The company provided eight \u201cpublicly sourced complaints\u201d as the reasons for quitting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook collects and aggregates user information and shares it with state and federal authorities, as well as security organizations from other countries,\u201d the first reason read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook collaborates with government security agencies on massive citizen surveillance programs such as PRISM,\u201d CrossFit said in the second reason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook censors and removes user accounts based on unknown criteria and at the request of third parties including government and foreign government agencies,\u201d it continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook collects, aggregates, and sells user information as a matter of business. Its business model allows governments and businesses alike to use its algorithmically conjured advertising categories as sophisticated data-mining and surveillance tools.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pull-quote\">\n<p class=\"quote-text\">&#8220;Facebook\u2019s news feeds are censored and crafted to reflect the political leanings of Facebook\u2019s utopian socialists while remaining vulnerable to misinformation campaigns designed to stir up violence and prejudice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"quote-author\">\u2014 CrossFit<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The company then added that \u201cFacebook\u2019s news feeds are censored and crafted to reflect the political leanings of Facebook\u2019s utopian socialists while remaining vulnerable to misinformation campaigns designed to stir up violence and prejudice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement noted that CrossFit is a \u201cvoluntary user of and contributor to this marketplace, can and must remove itself from this particular manifestation of the public square when it becomes clear that such responsibilities are betrayed or reneged upon to the detriment of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommon decency demands that we do so, as do our convictions regarding fitness, health, and nutrition, which sit at the heart of CrossFit\u2019s identity and prescription,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/crossfit-quits-facebook-instagram-accuses-censorship-utopian-socialists\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/crossfit-quits-facebook-instagram-accuses-censorship-utopian-socialists<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CrossFit quits Facebook, Instagram, accuses social media giant of censorship, being &#8216;utopian socialists&#8217; By Lukas Mikelionis | Fox News Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Why &#8216;breaking up&#8217; Facebook might be hard to do Sources tell Fox News that breaking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=123194\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}