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Not a very good joke. I'd have considered it a moral imperative to act on that impulse.
by jasonmp85 9y ago
Not a very good joke. I'd have considered it a moral imperative to act on that impulse.
- keebEz 9y agoMaybe they did?
- guelo 9y agoThey didn't use it themselves, they sold the tool to political campaigns.
- H4CK3RM4N 9y agoAs soon as Facebook takes a political stance, the other half of the population will leave.
- mattnewton 9y agoIt is sad that voter participation is a partisan issue in the United States.
- derefr 9y agoThe idea was telling only those voters in certain counties (who predictably would vote a certain way) to vote; i.e., a less-blatant version of telling exactly the subset of people who are registered to vote for a given party, to go out and vote. That is a partisan action.
- H4CK3RM4N 9y agoThat was what I meant, although I have to agree with the parent that Facebook really should show everyone a get out and vote message.
- mattnewton 9y agoIf they did it would still be seen as a Democratic-leaning message.
- derefr 9y agoPerhaps, but it'd then just be on the same level as any other broadcast medium that puts out such a message. I presume the more partisan of the cable news channels are still allowed to say "hey everyone, vote!"?
- brokenmachine 9y agoSo Republicans don't want people to vote? Real question, I'm in Australia and don't know.
- smt88 9y agoThat's correct. Get-out-the-vote efforts are seen as partisan. I volunteered to help register people to vote (as a non-partisan without any messaging at all) and was verbally abused by Republicans on the street. Republicans also regularly impose laws to disenfranchise voters. An example is Georgia's law where voters are purged from the rolls every 3 years. Minority voters often only vote every 4 years. The list goes on and on. These voter suppression tactics are very, very targeted at minorities and Democrats, often to the point that the Supreme Court has to strike them down as unlawful.
- metastart 9y agoYeah, basically if everyone always voted, the Democrats would generally win. That's why Republicans don't want to encourage voter turnout and also want to suppress ease of voting which usually harms poorer people who tend to be Democratic.