Banned Union Organizer Back on Facebook

by via Tula Connell, AFL-CIO

Sat, Jan 26, 2008 9:37AM

Friday, January 25, 2008 : Union organizers don't sit around when injustice occurs. So when Facebook banned Canadian union organizer Derek Blackadder from the site earlier this week, the global union movement took action and Blackadder is back on Facebook. Although candidates running for president, including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, each boast tens of thousands of friends on the social networking site, Facebook threw Blackadder off for making too many friends on the site.

Banned Union Organizer Back on Facebook

by Tula Connell, Jan 25, 2008

Union organizers don’t sit around when injustice occurs. So when Facebook banned Canadian union organizer Derek Blackadder from the site earlier this week, the global union movement took action—and Blackadder is back on Facebook.

Although candidates running for president, including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, each boast tens of thousands of friends on the social networking site, Facebook threw Blackadder off for making too many friends on the site.

Within nano-minutes of Blackadder’s ban, a “Free the Blackadder One” group was created on Facebook, and quickly became so popular, it reached the 1,000 friends mark. According to Facebook rules, once a group exceeds 1,000 members, Facebook turns off the e-mail feature and members can no longer be contacted.

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