Crossfit Deletes Facebook and Instagram After User Group Is Deplatformed

https://reason.com/2019/05/24/crossfit-deletes-facebook-and-instagram-after-user-group-is-deplatformed/

by tappityapp • 7 years ago

43 19 7 years ago

IronWolve• 7 years ago

Totally agree with crossfits guide to a lower carb diet, that meat/veggies/seeds should make up the bulk of your diet, and grains are more for livestock. Switching to low carb, lost weight and felt better.

tareqak4• 7 years ago

The recently updated (Jan 2019) Canada's Food Guide also agrees with that approach [0][1].

[0] https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada's_Food_Guide

YeGoblynQueenne4• 7 years ago

Reading the guide [1] I can see that it recommends, for adult men, 7-10 servings of fruits and veg, 7-8 of grain products, 3-4 dairy and 3 of meat _and alternatives_, which means vegetable sources of protein, particularly beans and legumes, including peanutbutter. For adult women it's 7-8 servings, 6-7, 3-4 and 2, respectively.

That's a predominantly carb-based diet, especially counting the "alternatives" to meat and the vegetables that include potatoes and sweet potatoes (the "other vegetables" category in the guide.

You can see this also on the food guide's website [2] (and its wikipedia page) where an image summarises the recommendations: a full plate; half is fruit and veg (including sweet/ potatos); a quarter is carbs (black and white rice, noodles, bread, red quinoa); and another is meat and alternatives, which again, include beans, chickpeas, lentils, almonds, peanuts, tofu, walnuts and some grains I can't quite identify.

So I don't know where you guys saw the low-carb diet. I particularly don't see any suggestion that grains are "for livestock".

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[1] http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/alt_formats/fnihb-dgspni/pdf/pu...

[2] https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/

xopher2• 7 years ago

+1 on that one. Switched to low carb and lost a ton of weight too.

sarcasmatwork• 7 years ago

/me applauds crossfit

The 8 complaints about FB on the crossfit website are rather good and I wish more would see this perspective. https://www.crossfit.com/battles/crossfit-suspends-facebook-...

thatoneuser2• 7 years ago

Thanks for that. It's crazy how much left propaganda there has been and how initially it was all about Russia. Choose whatever political opinion you want but what Facebook is doing is dystopian.

esoterica• 7 years ago

If “zuckerberg is a socialist” counts as a good complaint I shudder to think of what you would consider a bad one.

tareqak4• 7 years ago

Previously submitted twice with the second submission leading to a substantive discussion [0][1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19995636

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19997971

radcon• 7 years ago

Looks like it was flagged/removed with no explanation. It's currently ranked 107, even though it's vote:time ratio should easily put it on the front page.

Kind of ironic given the subject of their post. If I didn't know any better, I might think there are some FB people attempting to bury this story...

Edit: And this submission already appears to be suffering the same fate, ranked far below other stores with nearly equal vote:time ratios.

thatoneuser2• 7 years ago

Facebook is so corrupt and evil that you have to assume the worst by default. Otherwise they're probably still manipulating you somehow.

sctb• 7 years ago

You can't compare stories that way because it's not nearly just about vote/time. In any case, the previous story tripped the overheated discussion detector which we've just turned off so it's on the second page now.

giggles_giggles• 7 years ago

Just don't get rhabdo

linuxftw• 7 years ago

Facebook is acting in the service of food and beverage industry interests by deleting the accounts of communities that have identified the corrupted nutritional science responsible for unchecked global chronic disease. In this, it follows the practices of Wikipedia and other private platforms that host public content but retain the ability to remove or silence—without the opportunity for real debate or appeal—information and perspectives outside a narrow scope of belief or thought. In this case, the approved perspective has resulted in the deaths of millions through preventable diseases. Facebook is thus complicit in the global chronic disease crisis.

If people can believe this about Facebook, why can they not believe it in the context, of say, CNN or Fox News?

Similarly, our education system preaches how great Democracy is. Is Democracy great? Why must young children be taught the tenets of our civilization, and who stands to gain the most from this indoctrination?

Going against the established order will get you shunned in the west. Society will conspire against you to marginalize your beliefs.

Crossfit Deletes Facebook and Instagram After User Group Is Deplatformed

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