Facebook beginning to feel wrath of conservatives

Facebook beginning to feel wrath of conservatives
Yahoo! News ^ | April 6, 2011

Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:23:36 PM by 2ndDivisionVet

It’s a fairly typical day when Facebook has managed to spark the ire of man–including members of Congress, left and right–over its ever-evolving user privacy policies. Still, the company has managed to avoid pushing user patience to the point where people can’t maintain at least a base level of friendship. No significant block of the population has been moved to walk away from the site, much less take to the streets in protest.

But now, fueled by yesterday’s news that Facebook will host an online townhall meeting for the President, the company may be courting such a revolt by agitating a segment renowned for mobilizing and voicing their collective anger: modern conservative activists.

It’s the latest in a growing far right versus Facebook battle that began when the New York Times‘ Andrew Ross Sorkin recently reported that the social media giant was in talks to offer millions to former Obama White House press secretary Robert Gibbs to run its communications operation. The prospect of the move immediately raised eyebrows on the right, exemplified in comments to a post by Mike Riggs on the conservative website the Daily Caller–which also pointed out that Facebook had already hired a number of Obama administration alumni.

“Crackbook would become much less addictive for conservative patriots” if the company hired Gibbs, opined one commenter. Another wrote, “More and more I might end up yanking my profile from facebook as each day goes by.”

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com …