ReaganBook Founder: Trolls Prove That ‘Facebook For Patriots’ Fills A Need

Janet Folger Porter, president and founder of Faith 2 Action, presents the dozens of red roses that were donated by individuals during a press conference at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. The Faith 2 Action g... Janet Folger Porter, president and founder of Faith 2 Action, presents the dozens of red roses that were donated by individuals during a press conference at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. The Faith 2 Action group were delivering bouquets of roses to Ohio Senators in order to draw attention to House Bill 125, also knows as the Heartbeat bill. The so-called heartbeat bill would outlaw abortions at the first detectable fetal heartbeat, sometimes as early as six weeks into pregnancy. (AP Photo/Columbus Dispatch, Brooke LaValley) MORE LESS
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Janet Porter, the founder of the conservative social networking site ReaganBook seems determined to get the website up and running again.

The “Facebook for patriots” went offline last month in order to implement security fixes that will “keep the site free from obscenity, pornography, and those intent on the destruction of life, liberty, and the family.”

According to an account by The Verge, the website was quite susceptible to trolls and quickly gave way to chaos.

But Porter told Fox News that the haters only prove that the networking site is necessary.

“I think there are some people that are threatened by freedom of speech,” she said in an interview published Saturday. “People are used to the silencing of all dissent. That’s not what this country is founded on.”

She still hopes that ReaganBook will “tear down walls of tyranny.”

“ReaganBook is putting freedom on the offensive,” she told Fox.

H/t Right Wing Watch

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  1. Avatar for estamm estamm says:

    That term you use, ‘freedom of speech’. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  2. “I think there are some people that are threatened by freedom of speech,”

    How are those security fixes going? Is the unacceptable-language filter up and running?

  3. It would more appropriately be called “Facebook in the Bubble.”

  4. They just want to cocoon themselves in a place where they can tell each other things they already agree with and not be exposed to people who disagree with them.

    Umm . . . okay, wait a minute . . . (j/k)

  5. Delusions of relevance or importance. And you’re definitely “offensive,” lady.

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