Today Facebook has unpublished Queensland-based Senator Fraser Anning’s official page for “not following Facebook Pages Terms”.
This is the first elected official to be banned by the social media giant.
https://twitter.com/fraser_anning/status/1045530217735905280
Many in Australia are calling for their government to protect its citizen’s “basic human right” to freedom of speech. A rally has been planned outside Melbourne’s Facebook office on International Free Speech Day, the 6th of October, where the banned senator plans to address the crowd.
#BREAKING Senator @fraser_anning BANNED from @facebook!
The purge continues…
Rally with us next week ➡️ https://t.co/DvmlL1gHRI@debbie1ala @AustLiberty #auspol #freespeech pic.twitter.com/02kAg6mBOs
— Avi Yemini ???????????????? (@OzraeliAvi) September 28, 2018
This was Senator @fraser_anning’s “final post” before he got Zucked.
Ironic. #auspol #freespeech
JOIN US NEXT SATURDAY ➡️ https://t.co/DvmlL1gHRI@debbie1ala @AustLiberty @SkyNewsAust pic.twitter.com/CcPrMQHH4X
— Avi Yemini ???????????????? (@OzraeliAvi) September 28, 2018
Facebook has just taken the unprecedented step in unpublishing a Commonwealth Politicians page. Free speech is under attack, and communication is being regulated by foreign companies with tendencies of political bias. This is completely unacceptable and we will fight this. pic.twitter.com/J81lkECREP
— Senator Fraser Anning (@fraser_anning) September 28, 2018
UPDATE from the Courier Mail, 8:30 am:
Senator Fraser Anning’s Facebook taken down
FACEBOOK has taken down Fraser Anning’s page, sparking outrage from the Katter’s Australian Party senator.
Senator Anning had posted a series of statements and videos on the page calling for a ban on Muslim migration to Australia
“Free speech is under attack and communication is being regulated by foreign companies with tendencies of political bias,” the Queensland senator wrote on Twitter on Friday.
“This is completely unacceptable and we will fight this.”
Facebook has an appeals process in regard to its “Pages Terms”. The company declined to comment on whether complaints triggered the page removal.
Facebook employs dedicated teams and technical systems to detect misuse of the social media platform, as well as “harmful conduct towards others, and situations where we may be able to help support or protect our community”.
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Left/Liberals,Muslims are pathological liars. share this if anyone believes their Lies http://bit.ly/2rF8pfo
They protect jihadis and get away with crime.
More kindness and love from the “tolerant and progressive” left.
FB: a 14 yr old brat that needs a beatdown. STOP USING FB; WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FOR FREE?
Dump Fascistbook. Go to a free speech site like http://www.gab.com
Everyone says to just forget Facebook, but no other social platform has a comparable audience. It would take a sea change of people leaving Facebook in droves to create any real change, and since Facebook is really more about sharing photos and stupid videos with friends and family, that is unlikely to happen.
That’s what you get for believing in Fakebook. It’s a private company and can do what it wants. That’s the reality. Pronounce the “C” as a “K”, dummy.
actually, it is a communications entity which makes it subject to regulation by government. it is not a duchy. it is more like a public utility. so no it can’t just do what it wants as you put it.
Ummmm… NOOOO!
“fundamental tenant of free speech”? Does he really have any right to say such things ?
FA☭EBOOK must be shut down!
Who goes to a fascist site for news anyway?
If you still have an account on FB, you have no room to complain. You are the very reason FB exists.