The banning of multiple political commentators from Facebook and Instagram, including conservatives Paul Joseph Watson and Laura Loomer, is an outrage against the ideals of an open Internet on its own. But beyond the bans on individuals, Facebook has deployed an even more terrifying tool of censorship — link-banning.
The mainstream media were, of course, tipped off about the bans in advance, and the Atlantic’s report contains the following eye-opening detail. Not only has Alex Jones’ personal account now been banned from Facebook, in addition to PrisonPlanet editor-in-chief and YouTube star Paul Joseph Watson, but all links to Infowars sites are now banned across the platform. Share Infowars too often, and you’ll be banned too.
Via The Atlantic:
More @ Breitbart
The thievish communist freak, Zuckerberg, seems to be pushing a
ReplyDeletecommunist agenda. If the 'brother's' would have won their
lawsuit on theft of research material, this take-over of the
thought process would not be going on.
If the 'brother's' would have won their lawsuit on theft of research material, this take-over of the thought process would not be going on.
DeleteI'm not knowledgeable abut that.
This part of the article sticks out:
ReplyDeletealtogether new levels. If you post Infowars content on Facebook or Facebook-owned Instagram, your post will be removed. If you post it repeatedly, you will be banned.
Note the wording, too — you’ll be banned unless you’re condemning Infowars. Facebook is now brazenly using its power to reward certain political positions and punish others.
Facebook is now brazenly using its power to reward certain political positions and punish others.
DeleteSimply amazing.
So, everyone should leave Facebook. No, you say? What about all my pictures and gossip? But, but, but. Stupid, dumbed down people walking into Commie trap. Quit Facebook, people!!
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteOh sure, as Tewshooz wrote, you are free to post your "pictures and gossip" along with your APPROVED comments and links, but "fascistbook" and its gatekeepers of info and opinion have strayed far from the classical liberalism and free speech they supposedly support as long as it "shrinks from controversey" and doesn't "inform, arouse...or even anger public opinion". These fake, phony, paranoid liberals now want to stifle free speech!
ReplyDelete"Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed--and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment-- the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution- -not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants"--but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion." --John F. Kennedy, April 27, 1961 speaking to American Newspaper Publishers Association
--Ron W
John F. Kennedy
DeleteThanks and bring him back!
And JFK nailed these paranoid, authoritarians with this quote:
Delete“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
They fear and loathe freedom.
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty."
--Thomas Jefferson