{"id":7147,"date":"2014-03-07T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T16:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7147"},"modified":"2014-03-07T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T16:43:06","slug":"the-real-reason-facebook-cracked-down-on-guns-moms-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/the-real-reason-facebook-cracked-down-on-guns-moms-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reason Facebook Cracked Down On Guns (Moms, Of Course)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h1>The Real Reason Facebook Cracked Down On Guns (Moms, Of Course)<\/h1>\n<p>New York&#8217;s top law enforcement official brought Facebook to the table to talk about getting tough on guns. But it was an increasingly powerful group of mothers that likely forced the social media giant to crack down on what some saw as an underground market for gun sales in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook announced Wednesday that it would start policing gun sales on the site, blocking minors from selling weapons and deleting any post that breaks state or federal gun laws, among other measures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we&#8217;ve recently heard specific concerns from people about offers for the private sales of firearms, this is one of many areas where we face a difficult challenge balancing individuals&#8217; desire to express themselves on our services, and recognizing that this speech may have consequences elsewhere,&#8221; the company said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readability.com\/articles\/u3qez72z\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest here&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real Reason Facebook Cracked Down On Guns (Moms, Of Course) New York&#8217;s top law enforcement official brought Facebook to the table to talk about getting tough on guns. But it was an increasingly powerful group of mothers that likely forced the social media giant to crack down on what some saw as an underground market for gun\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/the-real-reason-facebook-cracked-down-on-guns-moms-of-course\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1426],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7148,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions\/7148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}