[ April 17, 2024 ]
We are reaching a tipping point. The reckless, capricious abuse of our freedoms by uniformly left-wing social media managers demands government intervention.
Readers of my book FATWA: Hunted in America are painfully aware of the social media war on free speech activists. I have detailed the oppressive ongoing campaign of attrition by Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube – social media giants run by uniformly leftwing corporate managers – against me, not to mention my colleagues. Just this week Twitter terminated the account of the winner of AFDI’s Muhammad Art Exhibit, former Muslim Bosch Fawstin. The ensuing outcry moved Twitter to reinstate his account but that is hardly the answer. What about counter jihad activists and conservatives without a huge social media voice or influential social media friends. Milo , on the other hand, is still banned from Twitter.
Facebook has banned my feed to over two million followers. Google AdSense has terminated my account, libeling my site as “dangerous”. Pinterest has designated links to my site as “inappropriate content” thereby prohibiting their users from sharing Geller Report articles. After 12 years, YouTube terminated my account (only to reinstate it after public outcry). Twitter has shadowbanned me. I could go on …. but you get the picture.
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My legal team, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) under the First Amendment. The legal premise of the suit is as follows: “Section 230 provides immunity from lawsuits to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, thereby permitting these social media giants to engage in government-sanctioned censorship and discriminatory business practices free from legal challenge.” We were “often subject to censorship and discrimination by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube” because of our beliefs and views, “which Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube consider expression that is offensive to Muslims. Such discrimination, which is largely religion-based in that these California businesses are favoring adherents of Islam over those who are not, is prohibited in many states, but particularly in California by the state’s anti-discrimination law, which is broadly construed to prohibit all forms of discrimination. However, because of the immunity granted by the federal government, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are free to engage in their otherwise unlawful, discriminatory practices.”
Facebook has immense power over organic media — the sharing of our information and news between friends and associates. Too much power. They’re trying to change the people by restricting our access to information. Gizmodo reported in May 2016:
Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project… Several former Facebook “news curators,” as they were known internally, also told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially “inject” selected stories into the trending news module, even if they weren’t popular enough to warrant inclusion—or in some cases weren’t trending at all.
“News curators”: what a Goebbels-like term.
Those of us who connect on social media have known this for years. We see it. We feel it. Which is why it is critical for our followers to share our stories on their news feeds. It is up to us to educate people.
Much like your telephone number was your means to communicate in the 20th century, so is your IP number the way in which you communicate in the 21st. If the government could break up Ma Bell using anti-trust laws then, so should the government use anti-trust legislation to insure our freedoms in this new age of communication. They can keep their revenues but they must respect our first amendment freedoms. That’s my approach to taking on these social media monsters.
ALIPAC is taking a different approach. I like it. Throw everything at them including the kitchen sink.
Twitter suspended ALIPAC’s account @ALIPAC for seven days over Christmas 2017 following the group’s proclamation of victory over DACA Amnesty on December 21, while falsely alleging that comments made many weeks earlier opposing violence by illegal immigrants and Muslim refugees were violent threats and violations of Twitter’s rules! (See Censored Comments)
In response, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is preparing a civil rights complaint with the United States Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division due to Twitter’s unfair trade practices, which are targeting American groups and individuals with defamation and censorship based on their conservative creeds and opposition to DACA Amnesty. ALIPAC is also encouraging activists to join their new account at the Twitter alternative called GAB.ai where censorship is not an issue.
ALIPAC asserts that Twitter is using the global corporation’s vast power and ability to censor individuals and organizations to both abridge the protected First Amendment rights of Americans and impact the outcome of legislation and elections through a pattern of defamation and discrimination.
The Civil Rights of U.S. citizens include our fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and subsequent acts of Congress. ALIPAC’s formal complaint is part of a larger growing number of reports warning of a pattern of discrimination and abuse being perpetrated by global corporations like Twitter, Google, and Facebook.
Twitter is engaging in acts of discrimination against Americans like William Gheen acting as President of ALIPAC by blocking ads paid for by Americans for Legal Immigration PAC that oppose DACA Amnesty for illegal immigrants while allowing ads from pro-Amnesty organizations to reach large American audiences. (See Censored and Allowed Ads)
Twitter is also refusing to verify the account @ALIPAC and has rejected more than five applications for verification since 2016 although the account with more than twenty-four thousand followers meets all stated requirements on Twitter for the blue verification badge, This special treatment is provided to and benefits ALIPAC’s pro-Amnesty opponents.
Most recently, Twitter unfairly suspended @ALIPAC for seven days after the organization proclaimed victory over DACA “Amnesty 2017.” ALIPAC’s suspension from Twitter following the defeat of DACA legislation in DC and the blocked ads were considered by Twitter to be “hateful content” although simple inspection of the ads and posts show they do not violate the stated rules on Twitter. (View Censored Tweets)
ALIPAC appealed the seven day suspension on each post and was denied upon appeal by Twitter claiming, “We do not allow people to promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease.” ALIPAC’s ads and posts do not threaten or promote violence. Nor do they target anyone based on these criteria. (View Documentation)
“Twitter’s claims that I threatened or promoted violence against protected classes in these comments and ads are observably false and defamatory as anyone can see from the images we provide of the censored materials,” said William Gheen, President of ALIPAC. “Twitter is discriminating against me and ALIPAC because of our creed which is our commonly shared beliefs that the U.S. Constitution and immigration laws matter and that Amnesty for illegal aliens is destructive to America. American citizens cannot effectively compete against mega-corporations like Twitter when such companies attack the civil rights of our citizens, and we are denied equal services, treatment, and employment based on our creed. In America we do not allow Walmart to tell Democrats, they can’t buy electrical or plumbing products nor the power and phone companies to deny equal services and products to any non-violent candidate, campaign, political party or cause they oppose!”
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is a 527 corporation which is the same as a federal campaign for U.S. House or Senate and as such is considered a form of non-profit which enjoys the highest classification of free speech protections under US law.
William Gheen is required to use Twitter, Facebook, and Google products as part of his employment duties reaching out to national audiences, and has little hope of accomplishing the clearly stated non-violent goals of his job and organization without equal access to these company services.
According to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, companies like Twitter are supposed to be prohibited from discrimination based on creed, race, religion, sex, national origin, or disability, in hiring, promoting, firing, setting wages, testing, training, apprenticeship, and all other terms and conditions of employment. In 2018, many potential and current employees, groups, and businesses must be allowed equal access to communication company services to compete in the political, financial, and information marketplaces Twitter is attempting to dominate.
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48 Comments
6 years ago
Stupid Twits
6 years ago
May their campaign succeed.
Just a reminder:
“Amnesty” is Orwell-speak: it is a dishonest upgrading for Capitulation.
6 years ago
Ramming speed! Take no prisoners!
D
6 years ago
As others have said: Islam is not a religion-it is a political ideology like communism. As such: if Muslims are so sensitive-they need to grow a skin like Christians, Jews, and everybody else. I resent the DOJ forcing mosques in neighborhoods and states where American citizens don’t want them.The muslims don’t want to be criticized because truth is their achilleas heel. And those IP giants are selling out their souls to Islam. Their censorship may get by in Pakistan, Turkey and in Germany thanks to Heiko Maas, but not here in the US.
So Mr Sessions-you must clean out the swamp in your employment with all the Obama appointed judges. They are the interference in Trumps EO’s.
Boycott all of them! BRAVO FOR A NEW IP FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH; GAB.ai!!!! Will join today.
Meanwhile back on the farm-CIA,NSA and others are complicit in their use of surveillance on phones, e mail, ISP’s, and that crap must end also.
While PG is watching the landscape, we’ll put Tom Fitton to watch the Dep’t of civil rights.
6 years ago
Reply to
Dave
Demolish all the mosques in the United States
We are not an islamic country and we do not want mosques inside our nation
6 years ago
It’s long overdue for these Stalinist bastards to be broken up under RICO
6 years ago
Reply to
Bill
Breaking them up will be of no use, because they will still be as stalinist as ever
Shut twitter down !
SHUT IT DOWN !!!!
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
That would be not only missing the point, but allowing those that would have us silenced win. Mosques have been here for hundreds of years. The rise of *radicalized* ‘muslims’ is a fairly recent development.
Do try to keep up.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Bill
Who gave them immunity is what I want to know. Who wrote that section of law, and WHO voted for it’s passage? Anyone know where to look it up?
D
6 years ago
Reply to
mztore
mztore….I was thinking the same thing. Who gave them this immunity but gives power such pipsqueaks who shut down bakery’s and such with huge punishments over a perceived hurt feelings.
D
6 years ago
This is war! Google, youtube, facebook; etc., are committing treason — or at least sedition. I wish G-d seed on this lawsuit.
6 years ago
Reply to
Underzog
That’s not sedition. According to SCOTUS, sedition requires inciting imminent lawless action. Since 1A abrogates treason to the same standard in wartime, treason’s out too.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
Was the Barbary War declared by congress? Tis a powerful precedent.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
You haven’t listed the scotus case! Treason is levying aid to the enemy in a time of war. We have been at war with Islam since the dawn of our republic. Pres. Jefferson had to build a navy to keep them from getting tribute from us. We had a fighting spirit then.
D
6 years ago
About time, I hope she wins this one! We are all behind you, Pamela! 🙂
6 years ago
Pretty OBVIOUS that circa 2018 the most intolerant folks in the USA are the “Progressives” – the very embodiment of “Elite Pigs” in Orwell’s “Animal Farm”.
6 years ago
GENOCIDE the ONLY ANSWER to the DOG RAPING MUSLUM SCUM
MOHAMMUDS CHILDREN PICTURED
YEP —JUST NIGERS TURNED INSIDE OUT
6 years ago
Reply to
Mike Smith
Troll elsewhere. Transparent and sophomoric attempt to defame the site, content, author and conversation.
But unlike Twitter, Fakebook and the rest of the left leaning titans of SV, we won’t delete your imbecilic post. Soros pay you by the hour, or each idiotic word?
6 years ago
Reply to
Mike Smith
Seriously? Using the N word? Now that’s ignorant and insulting! Just saying……
6 years ago
Reply to
Mike Smith
Obvious multi-Disquis account SOROS TROLL BOT posting stuff to get decent Americans to look bad on a conservative sight. Lame. Shame on you.
D
6 years ago
No chance of winning. Civil rights laws don’t apply to the private sector unless acting under auspices of government. Antitrust won’t work either because Twitter isn’t a monopoly (it grew organically).
6 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
True enough though a law could easily be passed that bans social media giants
from discriminating on the basis of political persuasion. Civil rights don’t apply to
the private sector? I am not a lawyer but I seriously doubt these social media
companies can legally discriminate on the basis of race, religion and so on.
6 years ago
Reply to
Robert
If that is true, and it appears to be as they are discriminating, somebody needs to tell that to the folks who have been sued ’cause they wouldn’t bake a cake for folks on the other side of the spectrum. Why is ‘justice’ now a one way street….one for ‘them’ and another for ‘us’?
6 years ago
Reply to
Robert
Such a law wouldn’t survive 1A scrutiny either…and civil rights do not apply to the private sector.
6 years ago
Whoda’ thought that being a Constitution-supporting, Christian, heterosexual, hardworking conservative would become edgy and counterculture????
6 years ago
Hopefully FACEBOOK,GOOGLE,TWITTER ,BBC & CBC are SWAMPED with LAW SUITS !
D
6 years ago
Thank you for filing a lawsuit. I’ve been permanently banned too.
6 years ago
LOL! Works in REVERSE too.
6 years ago
Those in politics and the media, including social media, who seek to subvert the First Amendment rights of others need to be reminded that the constitutional liberties that allow individual freedom of expression are the very same liberties that allow political discourse and a free media to even exist in the first place.
6 years ago
Excellent reference to Hitler’s WW II Goebbels and the German controls on all information.
What this country needs is a good OK for a legal punch in the nose.
6 years ago
hey bong, I know y ou have been smoking from your ass bong, but spamming this forum will bring you contempt not customers. NOW PISS OFF LITTLE BONG GIRL
6 years ago
Well this is an easy win. STOP USING TWEETER folkes. But I doubt you will.
There is another social site you can join and not be censored. Called, MeWe.com
