Has the Occupy Philly Facebook page been hijacked? Apparent online disorder.

Occupy Philadelphia doesn't have a website, but it does have a Facebook group - or did, anyway, until about an hour ago, when someone posting as an administrator announced that all other administrators had been kicked off, that anarchists had infiltrated the protest in order to cause disruption and ... well, a number of other allegations, some of which are frankly hard to decipher.

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Has the Occupy Philly Facebook page been hijacked? Apparent online disorder.

POSTED: Thursday, October 13, 2011, 2:39 PM
Filed Under: News

Occupy Philadelphia doesn't have a website, but it does have a Facebook group — or did, anyway, until about an hour ago, when someone posting as an administrator announced that all other administrators had been kicked off, that anarchists had infiltrated the protest in order to cause disruption, and ... well, a number of other allegations, some of which are frankly hard to decipher.

The post that seemed to set things off, posted by user "Occupy Philadelphia," identifying him/herself as Jay, reads as follows:

To the people of this fanpage, I(Jay) have removed all other admins for the time being. Truth is Philly there's a major issue happening at City Hall. A national anarchist committee have integrated themselves and attempt to control the peaceful movement through violence. Please educate yourselves on Cindy Milstein she isn't from Philadelphia she does not know the violence we endure everyday in our neighborhoods. This group of anarchist commit themselves to prey upon movements like ours. Please research. Again I willingly removed all other admins to preserve our movement in the purest form that it should remain.

A number of users have posted asking that other administrators be given access to the site.

A more recent post, apparently from someone else identifying as "Jon Laing" says: "Jay, I beg you to bring this up at the GA, not Facebook. The FB is for introducing people to the power and solidarity of the movement, not for airing out dirty laundry."

Anybody know what's going on?

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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:31 AM, 10/14/2011
    Let the truth be told these are actual situations occurring at Occupy Philadelphia. This page wasn’t hijacked or hacked. I’ve been an admin before the beginning or the 1st meetings. One of the original organizers of Occupy Philadelphia. The problem with Occupy Philly is it’s becoming racist, with facilitators believing that they’re leaders under leftist influence.

    Reality check:
    1. There are no leaders everyone is a leader
    2. There is no one idea there are many ideas
    3. There are many races, religion, political beliefs not one!
    4. Vote once in consensus not multiple times until you get the answer you influence and manipulated.
    jayoccupyphilly


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