Monday night the popular Boycott BP Facebook page was shut down and restored Tuesday; fans around the world wondered what happened and thought that BP had something to do with it. The Boycott BP Facebook page has almost 750,000 fans and its purpose is to get people to stop buying products from BP. If you are at all angry at BP...it's a great page to visit.
The message on the Boycott BP page Wednesday morning is….We are back! Fans of the Facebook page have left hundreds of comments since the page was restored.
Facebook released a statement Tuesday stating that it was a technical error and glitch and that the page has been restored. They made it clear that BP had nothing to do with the temporary closure of the page.
One political group that supports the Boycott BP movement, Public Citizen had this to say about the Boycott BP Facebook shut-down (before it was put back up):
"Facebook and other social websites have become the public squares of the Internet - places where citizens can congregate as a community to share their opinions and voice their grievances," said Greg Beck, the group's attorney.
"Facebook’s ownership of this democratic forum carries great responsibility. At the very least, Facebook should provide warning and a reasoned explanation before destroying a large and active community."
Beck went on to suggest that the Boycott BP was removed because it may have caused confusion:
"Nobody could be confused into believing that a page named “Boycott BP” is run by BP itself. People have a right to criticize a company by name, and BP has no right to stop it," he said.
BP received numerous complaints about the closure of the Facebook page and released their own statement stating simply that they had nothing to do with it.
For more about the Boycott BP Facebook page and how fast it has grown, click here.
Louisiana mental health costs and depression increase because of oil spill, but BP isn’t paying for it.
Last week, the first suicide because of the oil spill and loss of income occurred in Louisiana. Captain William Allen Kruse committed suicide last Wednesday, after his life and lifestyle changed dramatically because of oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. For more on his story, click here.
Sunday morning, the first oily tar bars washed ashore in Mississippi; by Sunday afternoon a 23-person crew began to clean up the mess along the shores of Pascagoula, Mississippi. For more on that story, click here.
Over the weekend a tropical storm formed in the Caribbean and is currently projected toward Belize and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Hurricane Alex is expected to hit land Wednesday. The storm may halt operations in the Gulf of Mexico for up to two weeks. For more on that story, click here.
Thursday, a New Orleans judge is expected to rule if the government ban on deepwater drilling will continue in the Gulf of Mexico. Obama’s administration asked Judge Martin Feldman to delay his decision on lifting the ban until an appeals court can get to the case later this summer. The judge denied that request. For more on that story, click here.
A lawsuit was filed from a group of companies that state the government has no evidence that the existing operations pose a threat to the Gulf of Mexico, and asked that the ban be removed. The companies provide boats and equipment to the drilling industry. For more on that story, click here.
To see incredible photos of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, click here.
To see photos taken recently of the oil spill that hit the Louisiana coastline and the wildlife it has affected, click here.
Sunday, a BP document was released by Rep. Edward Markey, D-Massachusetts that gave the worst case scenario of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; the report stated that an estimated 100,000 barrels (or 4.2 million gallons) could leak into the ocean per day. The report was created after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and was submitted in May. For more on that story, click here.
A BP shareholder class action lawsuit was filed last week in the Eastern District of Louisiana and the organizers of the suit hope to bring angry people all over the world together. The case alleges that BP was not conducting a safe operation in oil drilling, but misled the public by acting as though they were. For more information on that story, click here.
Actor Kevin Costner has invested about $26 million into his Ocean Therapy Solutions machine, and six of the machines were sent to the Gulf for testing. BP has ordered 32 more machines that recycle water to separate the oil. For more information on this story, click here.
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Source: Boycott BP Facebook and CNN
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Comments
Great article!! It's good to see the story getting out about what happened!
You could have mentioned the original article that first broke this story that is one of the most highest viewed on iReport.
After all, it WASN'T Public Citizen who first reported it, it was an actual member of "Boycott BP".
I hate what has happened with BP and I want them to pay out the ass forever, but why can't people see that the only way to hurt BP is to keep them in business so they can pay the money they owe so we need to make sure they do not go bankrupt and boycotting them is the worst thing we can do. I am sure that it seems logical but think about it before you go to such an extreme as that. BP, Exxon, Chevron etc all put the same oil the same pot so there is no such thing as BP Oil. All boycotting them is doing is hurting the independent stations unfortunate enough to have BP on their sign. Wake up people and think about what you are doing, becasue if you allow this devilsh company to go broke, the ones in charge are not going to lose a dime becasue they have already moved their fortunes around and they cannot be hurt and they will just get their life back and retire.. WE ARE the only ones that can lose by making them go broke so the cannot pay the bills for the damage they have done.... My 2
Same thing just happened with Boycott Target Until They Cease Funding Anti-Gay Politics, citing (vaguely) copyright infringement.
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