Rossi is awful. But the premise of this article is silly. Rossi is using Facebook features available to anyone. I hide impertinent comments in my wall all the time.

@1:

Last I checked, you weren't a public persona running a campaign for a federal elected office. Call me crazy, but I have this notion we hold such people to a slightly higher standard of transparency, not to mention veracity, than the average Facebook user.

@2: Nobody thinks Facebook walls are legitimate debate forum. The premise of a wall is that it's content is entirely at the whim of the user. It's not crazy to have the notion for a higher standard, but it is definitely crazy to think that Facebook is an applicable venue for transparency. Hence, to complain about comment hiding is disingenuous.

Kshama Sawant does the same thing...as does Komrad Nikkita.

Dino: common name of a pet dinosaur.

@1 @3: Nope. Go look at D and R FB pages. Generally, they allow criticism as long as it is respectful.

FB is for old people. I deleted my account as part of my anti-aging strategy.

@6: That doesn't negate my point, which is that we shouldn't expect such transparency on FB; still, it's nice when it does.

Evaluate them on the debate stage, not from within their own comfortable silos.

@8:

Any politician who not only can't take legitimate criticism, but who actively goes out of their way to suppress expression of that criticism, regardless of the media, is already opening themselves evaluation on that basis.

For fuck's sake, Pheobe @1, 3 & 8, if a court ruled Trump blocking people on Twitter is unconstitutional (pro tip: that totally happened), then it's not ridiculous to posit Facebook walls or whatever social media might also be at issue.