The Media Guard movement calls for a boycott of Facebook through the deletion of accounts

Not so long ago, MP Milonov came up with the initiative to block Facebook in Russia for introducing the functionality of coloring the user's avatar in the colors of the LGBT community flag. The youth Internet movement “Media Guard” (judging by the information from the site is a subsidiary of the patriotic movement “Young Guard”), which aims to create a “clean Internet” through blocking and adding resources to the unified register of prohibited sites of Roskomnadzor, also expressed discontent with the social . network, but now because of the biased, in their opinion, moderation of records of a political nature. This group has launched a web service facebookpoka.rf , allowing in a few clicks to download personal information from the social network, and then delete the page.

The resource page meets the user with a call to delete the account in the most popular social. networks of the world and take advantage of domestic alternatives:


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The organizers of the campaign are actively promoting their initiative on Twitter under the hashtags # facebookbook # facebook meNeFriend.

Opinions of Twitter users regarding the ongoing action were diametrically opposed, as is usually the case with initiatives that have political overtones. Still some mass of users wonders what the active promotion of the hashtags of the campaign is about and why they should “say goodbye” to the social. network:

Why # Facebook ?

- Benzion Wisher (@benzionwisher) July 11, 2015

A typical example of a natural misunderstanding of what is happening.

It cannot be said that the action gained any serious momentum. At the time of preparing the text, the counter on the facebookpoka.rf resource shows that only ~ 6800 people used the service and deleted their accounts. Given that in October 2012 the number of user pages on Facebook crossed the 1 billion mark, the figure of ~ 7,000 users is absolutely insignificant for the giant.

It is worth noting that the movement “Media Guard” is sparse (about 10 thousand people are subscribed to the project page in VK and 3900 active members according to information from the website of the movement), but very odiously. Thus, the organization’s website maintains a kind of “Top fighters with violations”, which lists the most active members of the movement, for which the counters of “identified” and “closed” resources are assigned, violating the “Internet cleanliness” in the opinion of this group.