The group’s leader, Bobby, who wishes to remain on first name terms, tells us that the suspension happened without warning and that the group has no way to appeal it. “This time we have no idea why [we’ve been banned],” he says. “We have been careful. We took ‘Militia’ out of our name on FB and added videogame lingo to our descriptive text.”
In case you missed it the first time around, Facebook disabled the Free States Milita’s Facebook group last year alongside its admins’ accounts. As we previously reported, this was done in error, and Facebook apologised and reinstated everything. Bobby tells us that the penalty is different this time around – the group is still there, as are the admins’ accounts, they just can’t post or interact with anything until February 7.