Facebook defends Muslim sharia law censorship, champions blasphemy laws

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Having been one of the early targets of social media censorship on Facebook, YouTube et al, I have for quite some time advocated for anti-trust action against these bullying behemoths. The story below once again shows why this is so urgently needed.

Read my article about this at The American Thinker. We are seeing an unprecedented erosion in our First Amendment rights, increasingly prohibiting the flow of ideas and free expression in the public square (social media). Run by left-wing self-possessed snowflakes, social media giants are indulging their worst autocratic impulses. And because they can, it is getting worse. “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“Facebook defends Muslim sharia law censorship, champions blasphemy laws,” by Judith Bergman, The Gatestone Institute, World Israel News, February 19, 2019 (thanks to Mark):

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Aside from the well-publicized incidents affecting a number of high public profile Facebook users, less-known social media users are censored and banned all the time.

Recent events illustrate how Facebook — which has previously championed blasphemy laws — continues its “sharia censorship” regarding content it apparently deems contrary to its “Community Standards“.

A report published in the Wall Street Journal on January 8 noted that Facebook — and Twitter — executives removed activist Laura Loomer from their platforms after Zahra Billoo, the executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) San Francisco Bay Area chapter, complained to them. What Facebook fails to disclose is that CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terror-financing case in US history. CAIR has also been designated a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates.

It should, however, be of little surprise that CAIR executives are able to wield such power over social media. According to Islamist Watch’s Sam Westrop:

“Since 2008, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) has granted $330,524 to two Islamist organizations, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Islamic Relief…. SVCF is America’s largest community foundation, with assets of over $8 billion. Its corporate partners include some of the country’s biggest tech companies — its largest donation was $1.5 billion from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.”

Silicon Valley, in other words, appears to be in the habit of financially supporting Islamists.

Billoo herself, according to Jihad Watch, “In tweets that remain publicly available… has expressed her support for an Islamic caliphate and Sharia law. She also claims, in multiple tweets, that ISIS is on the same moral plane as American and Israeli soldiers, adding that ‘our troops are engaged in terrorism.’”

Also in January, Facebook removed ads promoting a “Britain First” petition against the redevelopment and expansion of a mosque in the UK, on a Facebook page called Political Gamers UK. “Britain First” announced it would sue the social media giant for “political discrimination.”

The latest two instances of Facebook censorship were far from unique. In 2018, some of the publicized incidents of Facebook censorship included:

The news website Voice of Europe reported that it had been repeatedly censored and suspended for posting articles that contained content reflecting the critical stance of Central and Eastern European politicians against migration. An example is a book review of former Czech President Vaclav Klaus’s Europe All Inclusive, in which he said: “The migrant influx is comparable to the barbarian invasions of Europe.”

According to Voice of Europe, “We’ve now decided we will not post all our news on Facebook anymore, because we don’t want to lose our page.”

German Catholic historian and author Dr. Michael Hesemann had his comments on the historic role of Islam in Europe deleted because they supposedly did not correspond to Facebook “community standards.” Hesemann had written, “Islam always plays only one role in the 1700-year-old history of the Christian Occident: the role of the sword of Damocles which hung above us, the threat of barbarism against which one needed to unite and fight. In this sense, Islam is not part of German history…”

Frontpage Magazine editor Jamie Glazov was banned from Facebook for 30 days for posting screenshots of a Muslim threats to him. Facebook also banned him for 30 days on another occasion, for writing an article on the 17th anniversary of 9/11 on how to best prevent future 9/11s, “9 Steps to Successfully Counter Jihad.”

(Most recently, another social media giant, Twitter, warned Glazov that his new book, Jihadist Psychopath: How He Is Charming, Seducing, and Devouring Us , is in violation of Pakistan’s penal code, according to which Glazov is apparently “defiling the Holy Quran.” For the moment, Twitter has not taken any action, but it shows the extent to which social media is willing to take sharia laws into consideration).

Facebook closed down Australian imam Mohammad Tawhidi’s Facebook page “after he made a post mocking the terrorist group Hamas, and speaking in sarcastic terms about ‘peaceful Palestinian protests.’”

Facebook permanently banned the entire European branch of the anti-migration youth movement, Generation Identity, from Facebook. It deleted the movement’s pages for containing “extremist content.”

Facebook censored a post critical of Islam’s treatment of gays as “hate speech” and banned the editor of the website behind the post, Politicalite, for 30 days.

Facebook regularly blocks posts from historian and author Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch website. It happened, for example, both in September and in December.

Following European Commission’s code

These represent just an extremely small selection of publicized incidents affecting a number of high public profile Facebook users; less-known social media users are censored and banned all the time. In Germany, for instance, lawyer, journalist and anti-censorship activist Joachim Nikolaus Steinhöfel runs a website that documents Facebook censorship in Germany alone. There appears to be an enormous amount to document — as of June 2017, Facebook removed an average of 288,000 posts a month globally, according to its own statistics.

This should not come as a surprise – Facebook has, for example, signed the European Commission’s Code of Conduct on countering illegal online hate speech online, which commits the social media giant to review and remove, within 24 hours, “illegal hate speech.” Facebook’s Vice President of Public Policy Richard Allan wrote in 2017:

“Our current definition of hate speech is anything that directly attacks people based on what are known as their ‘protected characteristics’ — race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or serious disability or disease.

“There is no universally accepted answer for when something crosses the line…

“Sometimes, it’s obvious that something is hate speech and should be removed – because it includes the direct incitement of violence against protected characteristics, or degrades or dehumanizes people. If we identify credible threats of imminent violence against anyone, including threats based on a protected characteristic, we also escalate that to local law enforcement.”

Facebook, however, appears to be “creatively” selective in how it chooses to follow its own rules. It removes, for example, “content that glorifies violence or celebrates the suffering or humiliation of others.” In Sweden, however, Ahmad Qadan posted status updates to his public Facebook profile, asking for donations to ISIS. The posts stayed online for two years. Facebook deleted the posts only after the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) approached it.

In November 2017, Ahmad was sentenced to six months in prison after having been found guilty of using Facebook to collect money to fund weapons purchases for the ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra terror groups and for posting messages calling for “serious acts of violence primarily or disproportionately aimed at civilians with the intention of creating terror amongst the public.”

‘On occasion we make mistakes’

Facebook responded: “On occasion we make mistakes. When that happens, we correct them as soon as we are made aware”.

In September, Canadian media exposed that a Toronto terrorist leader, Zakaria Amara, currently serving a life sentence for plotting Al Qaeda-inspired truck bombings in downtown Toronto, nevertheless had a Facebook page on which he posted prison photos and notes about what made him a terrorist. Only after Canadian media outlets reached Facebook to ask about the account did Facebook delete Amara’s account “for violating our community standards.”

In France, a prisoner identified as Amir was accused in November of publishing ISIS propaganda from his prison cell using a smuggled phone. Facebook, apparently, took no notice.

Most recently, in Germany, a parliamentarian from the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party (AfD), Frank Magnitz, was severely wounded in a violent attack, which his party called “an assassination attempt.” A German “Antifa” group, Antifa Kampfsausbildung, posted “thank you” in response to the assault. Facebook found the group’s support of violence against a member of parliament perfectly in accord with its “standards”.

Perhaps Facebook’s selectivity is due to the loyalties it has already openly displayed. In July 2017, Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s vice president of Public Policy, reportedly promised Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan that Facebook would “remove fake accounts and explicit, hateful and provocative material that incites violence and terrorism.”

“The spokesperson said that while talking to the Facebook vice president, Nisar said that the entire Muslim Ummah was greatly disturbed and has serious concerns over the misuse of social media platforms to propagate blasphemous content… Nisar said that Pakistan appreciates the understanding shown by the Facebook administration and the cooperation being extended on these issues.”

Intent on censorship now more than ever

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg now appears to be more intent on censorship than ever….

It is curious that Zuckerberg would present his idea of disincentivizing “borderline content” as something new when, in fact, it has been a staple on Facebook for at least several years. In November 2017, for example, “traffic to Jihad Watch from Facebook dropped suddenly by 90% and has never recovered,” according to the website’s creator, Robert Spencer.

Facebook is evidently still championing blasphemy laws.

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Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
5 years ago

1.x billion pedophile worshipers is a lot of bank says the talking fire-hydrant

ace wheeler
ace wheeler
5 years ago

Almost a year ago to the day when FB finally had enough of my anti Muslim/Islamic postings and blocked my IP address. I looked into a virtual privacy network so I could keep harassing them, but decided I had better things to do with my time.

In my 28 months on FB I spent 5 months blocked from posting. Any of you who are still there are aiding and abetting your own eventual demise. You’ve been warned.

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Ari
Ari
5 years ago

The European Commission promotes social media censorship, MS media censorship and last but not least islamization. The European Commission members are ruthless globalists, who sacrifice the freedom of speech and make citizens ignorant. comment image German TV news presenter Amrita Cheema (DW)

santashandler
santashandler
5 years ago

Why anyone uses FB anymore, given the activities they are engaged in, is a mystery.

patd
patd
5 years ago

FB is run by ignorant libturd parasites and that is why I cancelled my account years ago!!! The government needs to start regulating FB and shut them down!

nag2
nag2
5 years ago
Reply to  patd

I will never have a FB account but Fox news isn’t far off. If I post something on Fox that is “politically incorrect” about Islam it gets deleted in seconds. It has happened to me several times. Try it! I believe they are controlled by their Saudi 2% owners. IMHO, because of this, they are part of the “fake news” also.

patd
patd
5 years ago
Reply to  nag2

I won’t even watch Fox any longer and they blocked me every time that I stated a fact about muslims. the libturds own the media and that’s why there are so many ignorant sheeple in this country today!

nag2
nag2
5 years ago
Reply to  patd

Agreed!

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago
Reply to  patd

The best news channel now is OAN – One America News. Unfortunately, it’s only carried in my area by DirecTV, which is just too expensive. So I have the worst carrier, due to price, which is Charter. I had to give up DirecTV because they kept jacking up the monthly bill. I sure miss OAN and I keep bugging Charter to carry it, but they’re more interested in pushing their cell phones than taking care of their TV customers. They have the worst DVR on the planet, too!

patd
patd
5 years ago

Why not read on line?

https://www.oann.com/

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago
Reply to  patd

Because I prefer sitting in my living room and watching the full show in TV. But can’t because Spectum/Charter is too cheap to add them to their channel list! I can’t sit at my computer to view everything I like viewing, it’s simply too uncomfortable and unhealthy. Plus I can’t quilt while I’m at my computer 🙂

Merchantseamen
Merchantseamen
5 years ago

Dorrie..I have Direct T.V. the current contract is almost done. I have been exploring DirectTVNow..online streaming. $55 a month and I can get OAN..which I don’t get now with my current package. As far as I know they are not related so…..correct me if I am wrong. Had fakebook for years but totally ignored it. Now I have gone “active” and been chastised from fakebook for sharing a photo of bacon. I told them they sucked so far they have left me alone. I daily slam islam and the bung hole buddies libtards. Really I am trying to get thrown off. I will keep trying.

robert v g
robert v g
5 years ago

Spectrum bought the local cable co. when I quit satellite, so I got it. I don’t have many complaints now. But they’re so big they have trouble keeping up with w. some minor stuff like the exact date the bill is due. They have diff. packages so I had to get the one which includes WOR-Chicago, a favorite. Also, I think U & I had misunderstanding previously…sorry ’bout that. I meant WGN. WOR is NYC radio I get.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

Facebook = Jihadbook

They are aided by the dumb , ignorant Left/Liberal loons coming out of colleges/schools run by pro-jihadi left/liberal loons

And by the time they realise their stupidity they get assaulted , gang raped or murdered like this couple its too late for them https://tinyurl.com/yahupccy

Problem is they enable evil while not able to see evil thanks to pro-jihadi left/liberal indoctrination in schools/colleges where real history of islam and America is no longer taught.
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Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Something wrong with this PHONY Jew. I believe he is under the influence of Satan. That can’t be helped. Because the Bible states that Satan is PRINCE of power of the air.

Thus, any MSM will be under his influence to do EBIL. You can see this readily on the internet, radio, magazines.

I read a lot of magazine and I can tell you it’s not about news or culture but about PROPAGANDA. It’s done subtly but you can readily see it if you put your Bible glasses on.

Then it stands out like that movie with Roddy Piper – They Live.

Tommy Scoro
Tommy Scoro
5 years ago

He’s not”phony”, he’s a secular Jew, and they are among the worst of progressivism,

Patriotliz
Patriotliz
5 years ago

It’s not their Jewish DNA (I have some European Jewish DNA)… it’s their Leftist/Fascist anti-Western Civilization IDEOLOGY in alliance w/ Islam…i.e., the Leftist-Islamic axis of EVIL.
Listen to Alex Jones show on infowars.com—this is one of the main underground free press news organization battling w/ the Globalist Leftist and the propaganda of the evil tech/media tyrants who desperately want to get rid of him completely.
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Software Babe
Software Babe
5 years ago

Oh please spare us. Satan is a SPIRIT who uses demons to do his bidding to destroy people/souls. Because of FREE WILL, if a person does evil, by free will THEY ARE INVITING demons into their lives (doesn’t mean POSSESSION). The more evil they do, the more demons that will influence their decisions (Congress should be told this!).

We struggle against the principalities of the air (there is constant warring for our souls between demons and angels), meaning SPIRITS that you cannot see, but evil will reveal them (not with the naked eye), but we will know these evil people by their rotten FRUITS. If they produce evil, they are evil and have demonic influences.

America is on a downward spiral. WHY? We continue to allow these evil people to control everything around us. We continue to vote them into office. We continue to NOT hold business owners accountable to righteousness and decency. We continue to watch from afar all the evil coming against otherwise, good people, like President Trump, etc..Christians, and righteous people.

When WE, THE PEOPLE start using the power we have to contact/vote against these evil people, THEN will God begin to bless America again. We have a temporary reprieve because of Trump, BUT that is not going to last long IF WE, THE PEOPLE don’t get off our butts and produce good fruits, which include GETTING THESE EVIL PEOPLE LEGALLY OUT OF OFFICE, OUT OF BUSINESS, AND OUT OF OUR COUNTRY. These would be ANYONE who is anti-Constitution, anti-American, anti-freedom, and UNGODLY.

WE ALL MUST PRAY FOR OUR PRESIDENT. If we do not, we have only ourselves to blame for our continued downfall as a GODLY nation. FREE WILL. Use it. IT IS POWERFUL, more than you will ever know.

DNA HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH EVIL. Free will and temptation (from demons) does. Every person has the ability to CHOOSE. No one can force you to do anything you do not want to do.

Raymond of Canada
Raymond of Canada
5 years ago
Reply to  Software Babe

Software Babe, you slammed Alleged Comment, then continued on, in essence, to repeat what he/she said. Don’t waste our time.

William Wilhelm
William Wilhelm
5 years ago

I was blocked for commenting on a post from John’s Hopkins reguarding transgenderism being a mental health issue. Tried to cancel my Facebook but can’t access it. How many blocked accounts are still counted as active? Sell all Facebook stock. Not only are they I’ll informed, they are living to stockholders.

Patriotliz
Patriotliz
5 years ago

Talking about selling stock….I just “discovered” that one of my retirement accounts includes an investment in TWITTER!!! I AM BANNED ON TWITTER!!!… for my tweets criticizing Islam. That’s like investing in Macy’s but they discriminate against me by not allowing me to enter their store because they don’t like how I think. Everyone should check all their holdings of their investments and Mutual Funds…and divest themselves of any of these Fascist Tech Tyrants and Media Nazis who don’t believe in Free Speech and are pro-Islamic Fascist Sharia and Leftist anti-American. I opened an account on GAB.ai where I’m allowed to criticize Islam.comment image

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago
Reply to  Patriotliz

SELL! 🙂

Patriotliz
Patriotliz
5 years ago

Done!
Met w/ financial adviser this morning and that Twitter Nazi stock was eliminated from my account. Had to explain to him the Leftist Media Nazis…he was totally oblivious to the censorship by the Leftists on conservative political speech and their enforcement of Sharia Blasphemy Law.

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago
Reply to  Patriotliz

I’m AMAZED to hear that not everyone knows what the left is doing! They’re so open, how can anyone NOT know! But good for you for selling! I hope those social media sites go bankrupt! Money talks and when it says “goodbye” sometimes people get the message that they’re simply wrong in their practices!

robert v g
robert v g
5 years ago
Reply to  Patriotliz

The GM bailout judge was told by Pres.O’ to give UAW 95% of their package, leaving GM bondholders, like my 401(k), only 6 to 8 cents on the dollar(not exact topic but I want to keep spreading the word).Now GM jobs diminishing.

William Wilhelm
William Wilhelm
5 years ago
Reply to  Patriotliz

We long ago tried to purge stocks like Aol, Twitter and other far left supporting companies. Unfortunately many companies are going far left.

Patriotliz
Patriotliz
5 years ago

Agree…”many” companies…but I was unaware that I had these anti-free speech Social Media Tech Nazis contained within my portfolios that contain multiple companies. It’s not like I would deliberately buy Twitter stock. I doubt that there are many conservatives who don’t bother to check their mutual fund accounts and retirement holdings.

mezcukor
mezcukor
5 years ago

Same here. banned from posting conservative sites article such as jihad watch etc.I cannot go back and erase my facebook page

William Wilhelm
William Wilhelm
5 years ago
Reply to  mezcukor

I’m having the same problems. Facebook won’t even let me access the account to delete the entire account. How may stock holders believe the figures when Facebook states they have x amount of followers?

JGray1
JGray1
5 years ago

apparently, I am in good company. FB continually trolls commentors they don’t like and continually disables their ability to post. I have seen the most egregious even virulently hateful and disgusting bloody anti semitic posts and illustrations and reported them only to be advised it does not go against FB community standards. we’ve got to do something about this monstrosity and put it down.

Software Babe
Software Babe
5 years ago
Reply to  JGray1

JUST DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT AND SPREAD THE WORD. We, the People should be able to control this. Govt won’t do anything for the American people because even THEY are not only uninformed, but do the same things.

JUST GET OFF FB/TWITTER. What did you do BEFORE they came online?
Contacts for FB: postplanner.com/how-to-contact-facebook-to-get-support/

Haven’t found any contacts for Twitter, probably because I don’t have these accounts, but if you do a deep dive on the Internet, you can find them.

Software Babe
Software Babe
5 years ago

Why ANYONE would still be on FB is way beyond my comprehension, especially when there is an alternative and especially knowing what I know about them.

GET OFF FB AND TWITTER, folks. Use Gab.ai, Instagram or some other FREE social media app OR better yet, just don’t use any of those and pick up a phone to call your friends/family. And, you can always get your own FREE web site and place tools there to communicate with family members. ALSO: TURN OFF YOUR MICS AND WEBCAMS. THEY ARE WATCHING/LISTING TO YOU.

I do NOT have a FB or Twitter account, no webcams, and no microphones. Because I am a retired I.T. Admin, I have seen FB/Twitter source code(a few subroutines) and I can assure you that their apps ARE INTRUSIVE, INSECURE, AND HARMFUL if you are not careful.

DROP YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA APPS AND WATCH YOUR CHILDREN. It is better to explain to everyone WHY you won’t use them so people will know just how dangerous they are.

nag2
nag2
5 years ago
Reply to  Software Babe

Gab.ai requires an “invite code” to join. So I must know someone already on Gab in order to join it and I don’t. So Gab is a no go.

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago
Reply to  nag2

That must be something new. I sure didn’t need an invite to join. Bypass Gab.ai and go to Gab.com … there must be something messed up in Gab.ai. And I enjoy it a LOT. Of course there are nasty people there, but they can be easily muted. Nasty people tend to go where they’re allowed to be nasty because it’s such a novelty for them. I just ignore their insanity and enjoy the good people who are also there.

nag2
nag2
5 years ago

OK, I did but it’s the same thing. As soon as I input my email address it wants an “invite code” – same as the other site. Guess I’m out of luck.

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago
Reply to  nag2

Maybe you could try this: https://gab.com/home

I’ve never heard of anyone having trouble getting into Gab. This is a first.

nag2
nag2
5 years ago

OK, I just did that and as soon as I click on “register” I get the page that tells me about how I have to have an “invite code” to join. I can see others conversations but it says I can create content or follow others unless I get this “invitation code”. You should try it and you’ll see.

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago
Reply to  nag2

I did try it and didn’t see anything like that, sorry :-
Maybe because I’m already a member, as soon as I type Gab.com, the window opens and I’m automatically logged in. If I knew how to SEND an invite to you, I would!

nag2
nag2
5 years ago

OK, I just tried again in a different browser and as soon as I input my email address to sign up it takes me to this page: https://www.gab.com/auth/register?email
As u You can see it asks for a code. I don’t know what else to to say.

nag2
nag2
5 years ago

I just got on the FAQ page on Gab and they say they are not accepting any new members except by invitation. you can check this out yourself if you care to. I emailed them and an answer is hopefully pending.

nag2
nag2
5 years ago

OK, I did but it’s the same thing. As soon as I input my email address it wants an “invite code” – same as the other site. Guess I’m out of luck.

Zvi Gross
Zvi Gross
5 years ago

However, anti Zionist and Jew hate content, is largely Kosher. Boycott Facebook.

Raymond of Canada
Raymond of Canada
5 years ago

I’ve been blocked on FB so many times but, as this story points out, it is getting worse. I could understand previous blocks, but the last blocks were two harmless memes which were posted to illustrate the extremeness of the left. One meme was posted to illustrate how far left protesters have become by holding up signs declaring Jews = Nazis. If we are not able to express our heartfelt opinions and “try to save the world”, what am I doing there? I’ve set up a profile on Gab.

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago

I was blocked in November for 6 weeks, without being given a reason. I guess they’re terrified of old ladies who belong to lots of quilt groups. When I went back, all my contacts were gone. I deleted my account. I don’t want to be part of that kind of BS. Zuckerberg is a Communist.

Raymond of Canada
Raymond of Canada
5 years ago

Sorry about that. I am on the ledge ready to dump FB overboard. I run 20 pages, one of those pages has over 20,000 followerers. I am waiting to devise a way where some of those followers could be redirected to me on a website or GAB, somewhere.

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago

I’m on Gab and find it very easy to get around in. I’m sure you would be comfortable there. Though because it allows “free speech,” some of it is pretty awful, but easy to block. It’s such a novelty to those who only go there to be abusive, that there are quite a lot of them, but even so. I’ve met a lot of nice folks as well.

1PierreMontagne1
1PierreMontagne1
5 years ago

Facebook is saying “Those who object to Islamist Propaganda and Islamist Sharia Dominance over mankind will be silenced”.

Dorrie - Conservative
Dorrie - Conservative
5 years ago

Twitter is much the same way. Time to say adios to Fakebook and Twitter. I deleted my Fakebook account several weeks ago and surprisingly, I don’t miss it.

Michael Jacobs
Michael Jacobs
5 years ago

Good for you, Ms. Geller. Antitrust action against the corporate social-media giants — mainly Facebook and Google — is sorely needed. These 800-pound gorillas have driven every other major competitor out of the market, leaving only tiny niche outlets for those who are banned from their forums. That’s classic monopolism, and it’s unhealthy in a free, competitive society like the USA.

But it’s not because Facebook, Google, et al. love Muslim Sharia law. It’s because they love PROFITS. They have monopolized the online ADVERTISING dollar, and if they did not kowtow to the demands of repressive regimes to restrict access to their platform for ideas those regimes find distasteful, they would lose huge advertising revenues. They are greedy monopolist capitalists, that’s all. And they need to be taken down, and broken up, the same way the trust-busters did to earlier iterations of predatory and unfair business practices.

Also, it’s not strictly a First Amendment freedom of speech issue when a PRIVATE forum denies access to its platform. You are still free to speak out, but those particular media are under no obligation to publish it. HOWEVER, there is precedent for changing this, too. For many years now shopping malls — which are, after all, privately-owned business spaces — have been legally considered by the courts to be SEMI-public forums for First Amendment purposes, since so many people rely on them as a replacement for the “Main Street” public forum of old. In other words, it is appropriate for the government to tell privately-owned businesses which essentially replace all reasonable publicly-available forums, that allowing fair access to opinions of ALL sides of an issue is part of the package they have to accept for the privilege of running that kind of business.

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