It’s Official- Occupy Canada Has Been Hijacked!

I’ve always been a bit pensive about the Occupy Canada page on Facebook. When I was in Vancouver, I knew one person who was an admin, but didn’t know much about the others. When I got to Toronto I learned that the page was setup by Derek Soberal. I’ve written about Derek before when he was arrested in Ottawa for ‘inciting a riot’…

I haven’t used the page very often. I’ve only tended to use it to post the occasional article I think may be appropriate to people there. Over the past couple of months I’ve noticed some hate coming from one of the administrators- and, from the type of hate it was, I’m guessing it was Doug Hattem of Occupy Bay Street’s political correctness police.

On September 5th I made a comment when someone posted a story from PressTV. Most of my readers understand by now that they are a rather crappy press outlet. I posted a quick comment warning people not to trust their stories.  And, bam, only a minute later I was banned! Does this say something about OC’s alliances?

Anyhow, yesterday I ran into Derek Soberal amongst a group of Occupiers.  So, I asked him if he knew I was removed from the page. I was kind of shocked to hear what he told me- apparently, he’s no longer a member, someone kicked him off the page too! This is rather shocking considering he was the person who created the page.

One of the biggest problems with Facebook is the lack of auditability when it comes to managing groups. Anyone who has been given administrator access has full powers to add or delete members, and there is no way to tell who did what to who and when. This has been a big problem for people in the Occupy Movement. It happened at Occupy Vancouver last year when someone with admin access deleted the whole OV page and erased all of the content. (I’ve always referred to that incident as OV’s Reichstag fire…)

So, once again, something marked “Occupy” has been hijacked. It began in Canada with Occupy Vancouver, then Occupy Toronto, and now Occupy Canada! Further evidence that the movement is dead…

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