A few days back, I was blocked by Facebook for reporting on Muslim anti-Semitism in Germany. This is now common practice. Millions of conservatives and Republicans are banned and blocked on social media platforms for their political opinions.
After Breitbart wrote up the story, Facebook reversed its decision.
Allum Bokhari of Brietbart updated the article:
“UPDATE: A Facebook representative told Breitbart News that “a block was incorrectly put on [Ms. Geller’s] account on April 25 after a post was mistakenly identified to violate our Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy because it included ‘God Bless Hitler’ and we don’t allow praise for hate figures. We removed the block the next day as soon as we identified that Ms. Geller was raising awareness about this content, which we do allow.”
It’s all well and good that Facebook reversed the block against me, but what about the millions of others who are routinely banned and blocked? Millions of conservative Americans have no recourse, no Breitbart article to call out the leftist authoritarians at Facebook.
This must stop. We need anti-trust legislation to ensure our First Amendment rights on social media. And we need it now.
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There will be no change in face book until there is a mass exodus of its well fleeced sheep.
Unfortunately, that isn’t happening on a large scale like one would imagine after so much private information was sold to outside sources! Instead, Facebook stock has skyrocketed – thru the roof, so to speak! People are clamoring to BUY the stock. It makes ZERO sense after what that asshat Zuckerberg did!
Correct Mahou. I just nixed it yesterday.
It’s one thing if, against my will, I’m targeted. It’s quite another when I volunteer for that.
I’ve gotten death threats from muslims on FB which were not taken down, and Yucky Zucky nauseated me too much to continue. I’m betting that the “mass exodus” you cite is happening as we speak. And as the Jews say: “From [my] mouth to God’s ear!”.
It is truly amazing what people will do. But, his empire will not last any longer than any others.
Left a long time ago. I recognized years ago that there were trackers. Had to be, if the advertisers had a good idea of your likes and dislikes.
So these Facebook folks are engineering wizzes, right? Are they wizzing on the other half of their brains?
This is just temporary I am sure they will ban her again in the near furture..
I don’t have a good understanding of the problem, and Pamela probably could be more informative. My understanding is that jihadi expressions are frequently blocked on FB, so the axe does fall both ways.
I recall one person who commented here declaring forthrightly that a ban on FB requires human oversight, but he was rather coy about how he knew this.
I shouldn’t think it would be too difficult to determine whether or not censorship is applied more rigorously against “conservative” sites. Simply running a few dozen well crafted test cases should suffice. If anyone knows of an online article that discusses such a test, I’d appreciate a reference.
Maybe do one yourself.
Pamela is a true fighter, she can never stay banned for long, whether it is Paypal, Twitter, or Facebook! May God bless her! 🙂
100% agreed Farcebook and Twatter are Muslim arselickers (brown tongues) of the worst sort. Once you get out of the ‘habit’ of these two scumbag sites. it’s amazing how life still goes on. Donald can do no wrong by me BUT for using Twatter.
Pamela is a true fighter, she can never stay banned for long, whether it is Paypal, Twitter, or Facebook! May God bless her! 🙂
They can allow Ms. Geller all the space and time that she needs or wants. I still will not use Fecesbook.
That is how I feel.
That other bunch of ignorant pigs Twatter blocked me for 12 hours for something equally innocuous. I have had enough, I deleted my F******** account years ago and going to delete Twatter today. It’s amazing how life goes on without them. EVERYBODY should do the same. Hurt them and hurt them hard.
Done the same. In fact, I don’t bother to go to web sites that use only FarceBook for comments (and the “r” in the word is meant to be there).
We do need antitrust legislation for the Internet, to make sure that blogs like this one are allowed to exist (and efforts such as the attempt to revoke Gab’s domain name are prevented). But that does not mean that conservatives should be entitled to post on FacePlantBook any more than lefties should be entitled to post here. The important thing is to keep the Internet open so that anyone can create a site. “Net Neutrality” regulation, if applied to individual sites rather than top-level services such as DNS, will hinder that, not help it.
There are already new “Facebooks” emerging just as Gab has emerged to replace Twitter. Soon the market will replace the rest. “Social Justice” is all about hate, and the rats are already leaving the sinking ship.
That’s the way. ……… or sue them out of existence……….or they will continue their fasicst intimidation to shut down conservative free speech.
This is how patriots fightback and win http://tinyurl.com/y8yzso88
Anti-trust is Marxist.
The problem is the little guy doesn’t have a team of sneaky lawyers as the big guys do. The little guys will not have a chance. BREAK THEM UP!
If every conservative gives even $5 to fund to get good lawyer not neccessarily the costliest , it can be done.
That is why I said , unite , organise , fund and sue/fightback. They are winning bcoz they funded by petro dollars jihadi lobbyists.
I’ll give for Perry Mason!
That’s great news, Pam. There are so many others, and this has to stop.
What about the rest of them? They all left, Pamela. You’re the only one left on F*ke book now. That’s why they reversed their decision. 😉
Too many sheeple and snowflakes will keep spybook alive. What is neede is a paradigm shift that will infuriate the masses to the point that spybook will be a thing of the passed. It’s just a fad anyway.
We are in the, “look at me” mentality that is reaching it’s apex and what goes up must come down. FaceBook, what a waist if time.
What hypocrisy – Pam moans about FBs banning yet i’m blocked on her own FB page with no explanation why.
Citation needed.
There is a difference between banning someone from posting anything on facebook and a user banning ISIS trolls.
Fk Zuckerberg, the self hating Jew atheist. I’m hoping that another internet site would take its place.
Without the spyware of course and censoring of free speech.
twitter is the same by locking people out of their accounts, as they did myself, it is plain to see these types of social media need new laws on them.. as they use fraud to justify using political correctness to ban people, liberalism is becoming a serious problem everywhere and it needs to be stop. Facebook, Twitter and Reddit have faced criticism for pulling content, blocking accounts and cutting off conversation.
Twitter made headlines when controversial conservative blogger Milo Yiannopoulos was banned after leading racist attacks against actress and comedian Leslie Jones.
Dozens of activist groups and hundreds of thousands of people sent CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter demanding that Facebook adopt a new “anticensorship” policy. The signers expressed concern about the company’s handling of the standoff Gaines had with Baltimore County police, much of which she broadcast on Facebook and Instagram before the police requested that her accounts be shut down.
The activists have asked that Facebook “stop this dangerous precedent of censoring users and clarify (its) policy on censoring video and other content.” “When you have someone who has an account on a social platform and they’ve put their time and energy into making connections and they know that’s where their audience is, and then they get their account shut down on that service, that absolutely feels like a huge limit on their freedom of expression and can be very disruptive,” But social-media companies have cornered the market on expression.. “They are learning, unfortunately the hard way, that when you occupy a space in our society that allows people to express themselves, you need to let people express themselves equally and fairly, because that is the expectation,” “They have tremendous effect on our lives and have become such a major part of the ecosystem of free expression and public debate that you can’t have a public campaign anymore without a Twitter or Facebook presence, and that makes them quasi-public, more like a power company or a cable company or newspaper.”
Being compared with a public utility — a legal classification that applies to telephone and cable companies — is probably something tech companies want to avoid And that level of government sanction could bind them to the First Amendment’s protection of speech and expression. “A lot of these companies want to have it both ways — when they want to boost usage, they talk about their commitments to free speech and openness and equality; when they want to restrict speech to avoid liability and curate a more welcoming environment, they become more of an editor, more of a censor,” which is why they are being sued
No, Pamela, anti-trust is not the answer.
You have some bloody cheek naming your blog after an Ayn Rand story then demanding anti-trust.
Anti-trust is Marxist and the exact opposite of freedom.
I am sympathetic to your argument and I suspect Pamela also is. But technology has greatly changed the dynamic so that what once was the public square now falls under the private sector. Rand’s analysis could not have foreseen private ownership of what amount to the public square.
I don’t see anti-trust as Marxist. After all, under communism there would be no private sector.
I’ve left…next.
I deleted my FB account years ago.