Comments on: Free the Blackadder One!

By: Bradley Buffkin

Bradley Buffkin — Fri, 07 May 2010 23:45:04 +0000

It’s good to see a great post about Twitter plus social networking every once in a while. Thanks for an excellent read!

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Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:06:42 +0000

[...] Free the Blackadder One! (and some more thoughts on Facebook) [...]

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Tue, 27 May 2008 22:02:11 +0000

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By: SLunionisland » User Group report 6 May 08

SLunionisland » User Group report 6 May 08 — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:03:10 +0000

[...] are concerning some activists, but it doesn’t rule out incidents in SL like Facebook’s Blackadder Affair earlier this [...]

By: DamionKutaeff

DamionKutaeff — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:39:29 +0000

Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
and wish to assit as far as possible.

By: peppone

peppone — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:24:12 +0000

yeh thers a 5k limit scobel got banned a while back but he kicked up a fuss

By: Tales from the Net » How to respond when Facebook censors your political speech: Part 1

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:52:51 +0000

[...] has a limit on how many friends you can make. Union activist Derek Blackadder added too many friends too quickly, and when he continued after Facebook’s warnings his account was [...]

By: admin

admin — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:20:55 +0000

Thanks Bruno. In answer to your question: Yes, and no.

We’re not too weak to organise our own activists in our own channels. Look at initiatives like Streik.tv in Germany or unionreps.org.uk in the UK. Where activists want to engage, we can provide them with better, deeper and more responsive resources, and channels to get better involved in a meaningful way.

But we *are* too weak to use our own channels to engage with (the majority of) people who don’t yet give a t*ss about unions. We need all the help we can get to get a populist message over to those people and gradually win them round. They won’t come to us if they don’t have a reason. We have to go to them to make first contact, and that means going into places like Facebook.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:12:41 +0000

Are we so weak that we need to use facebook, if you can’t join them beat them!

Do we not have resources and intelligence to create our own network?

We need cable channels, newspapers, internet radio and radio stations to be able to reach out to a wider audience.

Let start educating, agitating and organising!

By: Ian MacLeod

Ian MacLeod — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:56:10 +0000

Have you considered getting hold of the headquarters of whatever unions there are remaining with this? Perhaps unions will come out in defense of other unions, seeing their own freedom and safety in such an action. Give it a try.

Ian