Pro-Gun Group Stole Bloomberg’s Gun Safety Group’s Name On Facebook

[netcoyote]

There is another thread that talks about the specifics of Bloomberg's anti-gun organization but I thought this humorous related story deserves it's own thread. Some clever dude heard about Bloomberg's new project and went ahead to set up a Facebook page reserving that name before Blooberg's thugs could get it done. So while Bloomblossom is out advertising the name "Everytown for Gun Safety" anyone going to FB to see what it is about will see a pro-gun, pro- 2nd amendment story. I "liked" the page last night when they had over 3k likes, today they picked up over 2k likes overnight. Whether you regularly use FB or not, it would be worth going there to add your "like". It will be interesting to see what Bloomy does with this.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/gideonresnick/a-pro-gun-group-stole-bloombergs-gun-safety-groups-name-on-f

Here's the FB link: https://www.facebook.com/Everytownforgunsafety

Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Tuesday the creation of Everytown for Gun Safety, a major gun-control campaign that will combine some of his previous efforts.
But a pro-gun group has already reserved that page on Facebook. The first post the group made proudly stated that it stole the name of Bloomberg’s group.

The administrator of the Facebook page, who refused to give their name, provided BuzzFeed with the following statement about the motivation behind the page: “I took the Bloomberg name because I wanted this page to remain open to debate, unlike his group at Moms Demand Action that block anyone with alternative views. Gun owners are getting a bad rep nation wide from their anti gun propaganda. As to who I am, I am your average citizen that believes the second amendment ‘shall not be infringed.’”

When alerted to the presence of the page, a representative at Everytown for Gun Safety said that it wouldn’t be long before it disappeared from Facebook.

“Maybe they’d like to duel for it,” said Mark Glaze, the executive director of Everytown for Gun Safety. “I hear every person on our staff of 85 is a better shot than Wayne LaPierre. Or maybe a bidding war!”

We’re going through the proper process for transitioning our Demand Action page to ‘Everytown,’ which takes a few weeks, and acquiring trademark protection for both Everytown and Everytown for Gun Safety. Once that happens, we expect Facebook to shoo these cybersquattters politely off this name/page.”

[pianoman9701]

They got a like from me. I'm not quite about challenging Bloomberg to a duel, but...

[Atroxus]

That is awesome! I liked their page too.

[huntnphool]

That is awesome, now he needs to have a clear message that supports gun ownership plastered over the whole page.

[Special T]

I love to see this kind of action taken! Gurilla Marketing at its finest!

[pianoman9701]

They've been shut down by FB. It happened a couple of days ago.

[netcoyote]

They've been shut down by FB. It happened a couple of days ago.

Not true. I think they were shut down for a brief time but they started up again and are requesting "re-likes". Everytown for Gun Safety is back up as are a lot of individual state and town FB pages.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Everytown-for-Gun-Safety/255788701273534

[pianoman9701]

Cool, glad to see it back up.

[netcoyote]

Yeah, I'd really like to know what went on behind the scenes on this whole thing. The "Everytown..." pages sprung up overnight and immediately went viral. Offshoots of the main page were developed to identify states and a lot of towns. It appears that FB got some pushback and got cold feet and shut down the pages under some lame violation reasoning. They got called on their censorship and decided (correctly) to allow the pages after all. A good lesson for children down in goofey-town. They are going to have to decide if they want to be a credible content provider or water carriers for their government enablers.

[JJD]

I LOVE THIS!
Just went in and liked it.