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The Facebook page of the Madrid Bull Association has been canceled. "We hope that they have not completely eliminated it, to see if they have only suspended it, " says Roberto Yuste, the president of the entity that brings together some of the subscribers to Las Ventas, grouped almost all in line 7 of Square. "The same thing happened to us with YouTube," he recalls. " Now they blame us that the content could be fraudulent or that it corresponds to illegal activity."

Facebook has sent an email to the administrator of the Asociación El Toro de Madrid page . According to the company, fan content may "violate the Terms of Service" and recommends "review the rest of the published content". It warns that "repeated misuse" could make the page disappear permanently.

After complaining, Zuckerberg's company has responded to them along the same lines. Either they stop uploading fraudulent content, the bullfighting, or they run out of page. "We already had almost 100,000 followers . We were uploading gatherings, reports, historical chores. There was a very interesting archive" that could be violating some rule on copyright. "When it happened to us with YouTube we lost a lot of things. Now we have a hard drive where we kept that material . We would lose a lot, but not everything."

"A fat stick"

For Roberto Yuste, fans live on social networks "a dictatorship of animalists. They only listen to them. They contribute less. They only twitch. And they go against us, " he observes. He believes Facebook's decision could be related to his allegations. "We are very angry. There will have been a flood. I do not know exactly the number of complaints they have made but they have had to be many. They have given us a big stick."

In addition to the complaints, the Association's page also receives insults. The inbox is full of hate messages. "I do not know if they will be false profiles . Many of them are foreigners. In the publications they left tremendous comments. They call us 'murderers' or they wish us death 'by coronavirus'. And we received insults in private messages."

For Las Ventas subscribers, the season continues. "They have not yet told us anything about San Isidro. They have misinformed us . It is a strange silence, but from the works that are being carried out in the plaza. They have not told us anything. There is not the same communication that we had with Taurodelta."

They had already purchased tickets for Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, the first two bullfights of the year in Madrid. "We don't know when the money will be returned to us . We bought the tickets taking advantage of the discount that we had the subscribers. They have not said anything about the return."

Sources from the company consulted by this newspaper indicate that "all the tickets that were purchased electronically have been returned. As soon as possible, those that were purchased at the box office will be returned."

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