The Big Event

           The following blog describes "The Big Event" that caused the current controversy. Although this has been an argument for many years, it was only recently that the news for it blew up.

Enoc vt. "The Facebook "Like" Button" 10/9/2011 via Wikipedia.
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            The whole controversy for Facebook to change its policies on regulating gun sales on their website has been going on for a few years. It was only until January of 2016 when Facebook announced their ban on all gun sales on their website, along with Instagram, that an uproar started amongst all Facebook users. It is not clear where it was announced, and I was not able to locate a statement from Facebook itself. However, the information was released to the press and New York Times was one of the first news sources to write up an article about it and send it to the people. Mark Zuckerberg and other important figures associated with Facebook decided to pull through and finalize their ban shortly after President Barack Obama released his statement to better regulate the selling of guns to lower gun violence. Facebook has been trying to deal with this issue for years and even made an effort to crack down on sellers, but it didn't seem to be successful. Now with a zero-tolerance policy, it is officially banned and all pages related to gun selling/trading/buying have been taken down. Once this information was released all hell broke loose in the tech world. Supporters of the ban, like Moms Demand Action, were ecstatic about the news when they heard it. On the other hand, those gun-loving Facebookers that trade/buy/sell all their firearms through Facebook were pretty heated about this announcement. Almost immediately it sent them scrambling to find some place to continue their hobby.