Facebook blocks the search for "ron paul" allows "barack obama"
Submitted by RP 2008 on Sun, 12/09/2007 - 16:27Go to Facebook and type in "ron paul" in the search box and hit enter. You will get the following response:
"Search is currently unavailable.
Please try again at a later time or right now."
Type in "barack obama" in the search box and hit enter and you get over 500 results. Amazing! The censorship and media bias in this election is unbelieveable!!!
Try it yourself: http://www.facebook.com
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it's still f@#$ed up
i know the founder of facebook is a democrat
"we fear change, especially nickels"
This isn't the first time.
They've been caught doing this a few times now over the last couple months. Everytime I send emails to facebook about it and the next day it's fixed... but a week later the problem comes back.
poll on this at www.paulunteer.com
They actually are polling to see how many people this is happening to there... it happened to me.
'Cause there's a monster on the loose
Oh come on.
Some of the paranoia here is really taking it too far, lol.
"Search is currently unavaliable at this time" happens on facebook often. Facebook has no interest in blocking Ron Paul whatsoever. In fact, he probably brings them MORE traffic.
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It's not paranoia
Regardless of whether you think they are doing it on purpose or not, it IS happening and something needs to be done about it.
If you don't believe it, watch the video:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dojnfuij92v
(27 meg file)
Did you read the
Did you read the article?
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working
it's working for me when i'm not logged in... you can also do the advanced search, with the school as Duke, of course.
Facebook is still blocking searches for Ron Paul
What do we do about this? Suggestions? Anyone?
You can all be right
It is certainly possible for the search to work on some attempts and not on others.
The cynical explanation would be that they are blocking only a portion of the requests to not make their behavior obvious. The happy explanation is that so many people are searching for RP that they are breaking Facebook!
Very good insight...
it is a logical possibility that they might be doing that.
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Check out G. Edward Griffin's introductory video to his new site:
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Me three
When I try to search his name while logged in, I get an error. If I search when I am not logged in, I get about 4 pages of hits, but none are of Ron Paul's face book page. Then I logged back in, went to my profile and clicked on my "im a fan of: ron paul" link, I get his profile.
I tried it too
and I got the same error message, but not when I tried the other candidates.
Didn't Work For Me
Search is currently unavailable.
Please try again at a later time or right now.
14:55 pst
I pledge, do you?
Worked for me
I went to facebook and it permitted me to search RP...Over 160 results came up...
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. James Madison
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. James Madison
doubt that facebook has interest in blocking RP
i really don't see any reason why they would restrict RP searches... my facebook usage has gone up considerably because i have been sharing articles with friends on facebook...
methinks facebook is getting hacked?
I have the same problem
and I just sent a message asking what was going on. This is really weird.
Digg this story. I just went
Digg this story.
I just went to Facebook and searched for ‘Ron Paul’. The result?
Search is currently unavailable.
Please try again at a later time or right now.
Next, I searched for ‘Barrack Obama’, ‘Hillary Clinton’, ‘Rudy Giuliani’, ‘John McCain’, and ‘Mike Huckabee’. All of these returned results immediately. Although presidential candidates John McCain and Mike Huckabee were not the first of their namesake returned by the search, they were in the results.
After that, I searched for ‘Ron Paul’ again. The result?
Search is currently unavailable.
Please try again at a later time or right now.
All of this was done in the span of 60 seconds.
Go try it for yourself: www.Facebook.com
What do you suppose is the cause of this phenomenon? Reports from various sources indicate that this is a widespread issue.
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THEY ARE BLOCKING THE NAME RON IN TENN
dan holloway
If voting could really change things,
it would be illegal. Here is hoping for change!
Searching Ron Paul on FaceBook worked for me.
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please join ron paul groups
i am noticing from the comments that some of you aren't "official" supporters of ron paul on facebook or members of any of the MANY ron paul groups. if the search works for you, be sure to join them. also add the Election '08 application and vote for Dr. Paul!
Sniff
fishy
Something is rotten in the state of Facebook
I tried Ron Paul - got some lame error message
then Hillary - went fine
then Ron again - this time I got a page full of irrelevant namesakes plus one "Peter Bagdasarianz" whose photo was identical to Dr Paul... Puzzling
supporters show up in search results
supporters can show up in search results if they have ron paul's name in their profile or officially support him as a candidate. this 'peter' character is clearly a supporter based on his picture. but odd that that one would match instead of other people named ron or paul.
ron works, paul works, ron paul works
you do know the internet is a fickle thing
just as ron paul winning internet polls by landslides doesn't mean there are ron paul spammers, every error isn't due to some anti-ron paul conspiracy
everytime i've come across someone claiming ron paul is blocked, i can't reproduce it
search for "ron paul" is still blocked
there is no conspiracy theory here search for "ron paul" is still blocked go try it for yourself
It worked fine again.
Ron Paul is the great uniter, the income tax fighter...the military-supported, defender of the border...the political apathy solution and the champion of the Constitution! Doctor Paul is on-call!
I guess
You're the exception to the rule.
Check out the video below.
Check it out: recorded, video PROOF
http://www.mediafire.com/?dojnfuij92v
(27 meg file)
this is crazy...next to Ron Paul's photo, it reads...
Peter Bagdasarianz
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