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FACEBOOK: We Messed Up, Sorry About Your Business

FACEBOOK: We Messed Up, Sorry About Your Business

Evan Lips

A New Boston Post investigation has discovered that it only takes two clicks — one from a Facebook user reporting content and another from just one of the thousands of content reviewers employed across the globe by the social media giant — to initiate a lock/ban on another user's Facebook account.

The discovery came as a result of an inquiry into the suspension of an account owned by New Boston Post blogger and consultant Kyle Reyes, whom Facebook subjected to a 24-hour ban after he shared screenshots exposing another user's comment celebrating the murder of a Mississippi sheriff's deputy. Reyes, who saved and shared screenshots of a post another user submitted in response to a Fox 61 in Hartford report of the Mississippi shootings, saw his screenshots inexplicably removed, and later, his personal Facebook account temporarily suspended.

Ban Conversion Therapy? Supporters Say It’s Child Abuse; Opponents Say Banning It Is Child Abuse
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Ban Conversion Therapy? Supporters Say It’s Child Abuse; Opponents Say Banning It Is Child Abuse

Evan Lips

BOSTON — A bill calling for a statewide ban on doctors and therapists assisting minors in converting from one sexual orientation or gender identity to another drew passionate testimony from opponents and supporters during a hearing Tuesday.

Opponents of the therapy, like Samuel Brinton, told lawmakers about their own experiences. Brinton, a Massachusetts native who now lives in Washington D.C, said his parents made him undergo treatment when he was a boy in order to halt his attraction towards other males. In his testimony, Brinton recalled going through electroshock therapy, in addition to treatment involving wires hooked up to his fingers that would heat up when he was showed pictures of men touching other men, and cool back down when the images were replaced by photos of men touching women.

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