Pamela Geller, Breitbart Radio: Too Much Power over Free Speech in the Hands of a Small Number of Big Tech Companies

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Raheem Kassam interviewed me this morning on Breitbart Radio:

Pamela Geller: Too Much Power over Free Speech in the Hands of a Small Number of Big Tech Companies

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Pamela Geller, American Freedom Defense Initiative president and Geller Report proprietor, joined SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about PayPal’s attempt to ban her group.

“PayPal did indeed suspend my account after a hit piece by ProPublica, a George Soros-funded uber-left quote-unquote ‘think tank,’ as it were,” said Geller, venturing that not much thinking seemed to be going on at the think tank in question.

“This is in the aftermath of Charlottesville. The left is using Charlottesville to move in for the kill and crush anyone who dissents,” she said. “ProPublica did this piece, and the reporter, Lauren Kirchner, had written to me and asked me a series of questions. Clearly, one could see from the questions that it was a set-up.”

“She had asked me, ‘Have you been shut down by other tech companies for being a hate site?’ I mean, you have to love the assumption that I’m a hate site because I cover jihad terror-related news and sharia. That’s the focus of the website,” Geller said.

“What’s interesting is that so many people – I mean thousands of people on Twitter, on Facebook – really were outraged when I announced the ban. My tweet, for example, got thousands of retweets. Literally, that same day, PayPal reversed its decision,” she reported. “People need to know that they can make a difference; it’s not futile.”

Geller noted that her website has also been erased from Google search results, despite having accumulated thousands of posts during the past thirteen years, and her account has been banned from Google Accents.

“There is a systematic takedown of conservative websites. It’s very dangerous. Never in the history of mankind has so much power – well, I shouldn’t say mankind. I shouldn’t say history. There’s Alexander the Great, okay? – but in recent history, has so much power, immense power, been in the hands of so few,” she declared.

Kassam asked Geller if she thought the left would succeed in its attack on the First Amendment.

“They are being successful,” she replied. “They’re being very successful.”

Geller criticized senior Facebook executives for assuring the government of Pakistan that “Facebook will enforce sharia” by blocking “explicit, hateful, and provocative material that’s critical of Islam.”

“It’s extraordinary that the West is succumbing, submitting, to this really most extreme ideology,” she said. “Will it happen? It’s happening. It is happening. We see it in everything.”

Geller said that as an ardent capitalist, she has never supported anti-trust lawsuits, such as the Clinton administration’s action against Microsoft in the nineties, but she now believes that “we need legislative action on Facebook, on Google – the crushing of free speech.”

“That’s what my lawsuit is about,” she said. “We filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government for Section 230 under the FEC code that gives Facebook and YouTube and Twitter this immunity against these lawsuits. That has to change. So many millions of Americans, and Europeans as well, it’s our bulletin board. It’s how we communicate with each other.”

Geller cited the blocking of her news feed, which has around a million followers. “This is deeply problematic. I don’t know if our Republican Congress would have the stones to do something about this, but we need legislation because it’s only getting worse, Raheem,” she said.

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Thomas BlackD
Thomas Black
6 years ago

“…her account has been banned from Google Accents.” I think it is actually Google AdSense.

garry pollackD
garry pollack
6 years ago
Reply to  Thomas Black

“demonetizing” One step short of deplatforming…new words to my vocab!!!

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
6 years ago
Reply to  garry pollack

“Vocab”, a new word to my old vocabulary.

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Jackie
Jackie
6 years ago

ACT for America too. Please howl to PayPal too.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

The Republicans are turning into a big disappointment, it is increasingly looking like the Republican establishment has sold out to the same business interests that control democrats. There will have to be some changes made, starting by getting rid of the old pork barreling Republicans that put their personal intent ahead of the people they are supposed to represent.

garry pollackD
garry pollack
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I think they never ever wanted to win a presidency & have control of Congress…Now they have to govern…Life was so sweet…being O’B’s doormat!

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I have to agree; Republicans are turning into faux Democrats involved in “resist”, err, “obstruction” movement.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

Left/liberal Feminazi Loons are getting ridiculous by the day.

In Instagram they are banning women who look hot and sexy http://bit.ly/2v09Kyv

Unless there is organised way to fight back like was done to restore Paypal account of AFDI and jihadwatch most conservative blogs/websites will have to shut down and that is their intent so they can continue to brainwash the masses with their propaganda to destroy the country from within.

Even as we speak websites like BNI , youtubers like Lauren southern , Rebel media etc have lost their ad revenues and payment accounts too !

Roy Jennings
Roy Jennings
6 years ago

The total control of Western culture (and beyond) is now reality as the Globalists actually do control everything that matters in our societies.
The left can do virtually anything they want while the right are ridiculed and silenced by the `controllers`. From the internet, media, laws, the clear acceptance of Islamic values, something must done to halt the direction the controllers (Globalists) are taking us.

Gracecsanches
Gracecsanches
6 years ago
Reply to  Roy Jennings

Google is paying 97$ per hour! Work for few hours and have longer with friends & family!!!
On tuesday I got a great new Land Rover Range Rover from having earned $8752 this last four weeks.. Its the most-financialy rewarding I’ve had.. It sounds unbelievable but you wont forgive yourself if you don’t check it
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Dolorisjmcwilliams
Dolorisjmcwilliams
6 years ago
Reply to  Roy Jennings

Google is paying 97$ per hour! Work for few hours and have longer with friends & family!!!
On tuesday I got a great new Land Rover Range Rover from having earned $8752 this last four weeks.. Its the most-financialy rewarding I’ve had.. It sounds unbelievable but you wont forgive yourself if you don’t check it
!yz154d:
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De Doordenker
De Doordenker
6 years ago

Not Russia, Iran or North Korea but the mainstream media, with their covert leftist agenda is the #1 enemy.

Strongboy1770
Strongboy1770
6 years ago
Reply to  De Doordenker

The mainstream media don’t have the atom bomb.

De Doordenker
De Doordenker
6 years ago
Reply to  Strongboy1770

No, but they have the brain ‘neuron’ bomb. They brainwash and kill people’s brain turning them into brain dead zombies.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
6 years ago

Why do they become SPOILT BRATS when they hit the tech lottery?? Or the political lottery (little-boy Trudeau, the Nerogro sodomite, man-child Macron, etc.R)

Never understood this.

Strongboy1770
Strongboy1770
6 years ago

Facebook, You Tube and the like are private companies not subject to the First Amendment, which constrains only the government. You should have known that and prepared for it. Liberals do not have a monopoly on entrepreneurship. Construct your own platforms, that will welcome the whole spectrum of American political opinion, as long as it’s stated civilly, without ad hominem arguments and childish name-calling. Such a platform could be the foundation of the third party we so desperately need.

http://neandershort.blogspot.com/2017/03/whither-beloved-country.html

MrLogical
MrLogical
6 years ago

OK, it’s time to invoke anti-trust legislation and break up these Silicon tech’ behemoths that are threatening our constitutional freedoms; not merely in America, but around the world.

Too few people
Too much control
Too much influence
Too much concentration of power

Break them up to restore freedom to the marketplace of ideas, while simultaneously stimulating competition that will yield innovation, improve quality of service and bring down costs.

Long overdue.
Time for the Trump administration to become a hero to freedom and democracy.

Robert Wilkerson III
Robert Wilkerson III
6 years ago

Have we all forgotten Zuckerberg being asked by Angela Merkel (on a hot mike) what he plans to do about all of the negative comments on FB re: the European immigration debacle? He didn’t even act as if it was out of line for a pol to solicit what has to be millions of dollars in free editorial influence. His response to Mrs.Merkel- “We are working on it.” Creepy. And we Americans get asked constantly about our 2nd Amendment rights. Our natrural right are issued by Providence, not a temporal court or legislature. The reason is clear, we need to protect ourselves – and our culture – from the extra-legal, and unconstitutional efforts of both our govt’ and our supposedly neutral press.

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