House Judiciary Hearing on Social Media Censorship Today

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee Hearing is holding a hearing this morning at 10:00am EST on social media filtering and policing practices. The hearing will focus on how social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter, along with tech giant Google, moderate content on their platforms. It will feature social media personalities Diamond & Silk, who have garnered attention in recent weeks for having their content deemed “unsafe” by Facebook.

Just yesterday, I was, yet again, blocked from Facebook for publishing a news story about Islamic Jew-hatred in Germany.

For months, Facebook has been censoring, scrubbing and banning posts, comments and users who dare violate the Sharia. And it’s getting worse. Posts, links, comments critical of jihad and sharia violate Facebook’s sharia terms of service. My feed has been blocked and banned. Facebook daily referrals were 90K plus back in February, today is under 2k. My feed is blocked from my millions of followers on Facebook, and I have seen my circulation drop precipitously in the past three months. For news publishers, Facebook is the motherboard of link traffic. No news site can survive without them. None of us are immune, which is why my traffic is down upwards of 95% since the block. My Facebook page has well over a million followers; add my organizations to that, and it is roughly two million people. Now imagine their sharing capability, and their friends and their friends — you get the picture. It’s how we fight fake news. All of my FB followers experience similar issues with their posts and shares. I receive scores of emails every day from readers telling me of new blocks, bans and Facebook jail sentences. It’s why I am suing.

Imagine a chief officer from a major American communications company went to the terror state of Pakistan to assure the Pakisstani government that Facebook would adhere to the sharia. The commitment was given by Vice President of Facebook Joel Kaplan who called on Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. “Facebook has reiterated its commitment to keep the platform safe and promote values that are in congruence with its community standards.”

Why the block? Because under Islamic law, you cannot criticize Islam. Facebook adhering to the most extreme and brutal ideology on the face of the earth should trouble all of us, because Mark Zuckerberg has immense power. He controls the flow of information. He controls what you see and don’t see on Facebook. We did not give him the power to abridge our unalienable freedoms.

The US government used anti-trust laws to break up monopolies. They ought to break up Facebook. Section 2 of the Sherman Act highlights particular results deemed anti-competitive by nature and prohibits actions that “shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations.” Why shouldn’t the same be applied to information? The United States government took down Standard Oil, Alcoa, Northern Securities, the American Tobacco Company and many others without nearly the power that Facebook has. President Clinton sued Microsoft. And the USG broke up Ma Bell. Isn’t yesterday’s telephone number today’s IP address?

President Theodore Roosevelt sued 45 companies under the Sherman Act, while William Howard Taft sued 75, and the fact that the US government used these vicious anti-capitalist laws to destroy huge industrial giants must be used in defense of free speech?

From Free Out Internet:

Facebook, Google and Twitter’s rampant censorship of conservative voices is a direct threat to free speech in America, and Free Our Internet is happy to see that the House Judiciary Committee is taking the matter seriously. These social media giants are controlling content on their platforms, increasingly threatening free speech and sounding more and more like oppressive regimes around the world – including China, whose President Xi Jinping earlier this week emphasized his concern that the internet is becoming “a platform for disseminating harmful information and stirring up trouble with rumors.”

Watch the hearing here at 10:00am EST, and send a letter to your representatives in Congress today to let them know that Silicon Valley titans must be stopped in their crusade to control the flow of information. Together, we can take back control of the internet from the tech-left.

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MAS

5 years ago

Great, more irrelevant DC Kabuki theater. Someone call me when there is any real action taken…

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R. Arandas

5 years ago

I hope they can rule that free speech should not be restricted, even on social media. Anything less would only create a very slippery slope as a precedent.

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SNOWDIN

5 years ago

Diamond and Silk are supposed to testify in front of congress against Fecesbook. The lyeberals tried to push a law that conservative stations had to give equal time to liberals and that did not fly.

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Millionmileman

5 years ago

Just this morning my following comment was deleted by the UK Independent:
Well this is long overdue. Because this is the sad legacy of the Democratic Party, more so after the loss of the Civil War.

The KKK were the shock-troops to enshrine the their party’s roots. As well as Blacks they went after Jews, Catholics and yes Republicans.

Wilson enforced segregation in DC at Federal offices, turned a blind-eye to Black soldiers being murdered on reaching home after fighting in WWI. The list goes on and on. They are the party of identity politics.

This needs to be memorialized for all to know. Also Facebook removed one of my 2nd Amendment comments.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lynching-memorial-us-racism-slavery-alabama-montgomery-a8322401.html

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aemoreira1981

5 years ago

Reply to  Millionmileman

Those people are long dead and this doesn’t apply to today. As for this case, it was frivolous.

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Achmed Mohandjob

5 years ago

Reply to  aemoreira1981

Here’s our little aemoreia1981, again, playing “make believe”. Her mommy just doesn’t have the time for her constant demands to play. UNFAIR! Bad mommy … MEAN!

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Millionmileman

5 years ago

Reply to  aemoreira1981

The point is it does apply today because the Democratic Party is projecting by calling Republicans the racists. The fact is that sometimes in the 50’s to 60’s the true became horrible twisted. It was the Republicans in the Senate that voted to end desegregation and Senators like Bill Clinton’s hero
Wm. Fulbright and Al Gore’s father were notorious to vote against.

It was the Republican Party that went to war over slavery and great heroines like Harriet Tubman, of the Underground Railroad was a great proponent of the 2nd Amendment. Today America is at a crossroads dealing with censorship of the true and excoriation of conservative thought.

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