Have you been shadow banned, censored or deplatformed by a
Social Media giant? Perhaps you’ve spent time in ye old notorious Facebook
Jail? I know I have had these experiences. If you’ve been in the same plight,
you’ll appreciate this Justin Smith post.
I stay on Facebook simply because it has inserted itself
into all sectors of public life, somewhat insidiously I might add, and as such,
it wields far too much power as a political tool to simply be abandoned, due to
its tyrannical and arbitrary censorship of everything conservative,
pro-American, pro-Liberty and pro-Life. If not for this fact, I could care less
if I'm on FB or not, until someone in government brings them in line to where
they must follow the same guidelines as regular businesses and at least honor
our civil rights and the Bill of Rights.
Whether I'm speaking to them or not, or anyone else on
Facebook in any particular fashion should not be any of their concern, since
everyone is provided a "Block" function; that they go the extra step
to act as Big Brother on their private site is still a violation of our First
Amendment Rights.
If I'm in a place of business and the owner doesn't like
something I say, they cannot censor me. But, like Facebook they can ask me to
leave or refuse me service. That's what Facebook essentially does. My assertion
is they wouldn't know what I was saying or writing if they weren't illegally
spying on me through the algorithms and monitors; and if they run across my
public post by accident, they can simply ignore it. They should leave any interaction
between all parties participating in FB, and if anyone decides to block me over
something I've posted, that's all fair and square.
The way it is now, the Leftists utilizing FB use the block
app and Facebook backs them up like a supporting regiment in what amounts to
the wholesale censorship of all conservatives on Facebook, by shadow banning
posts and locking people out of their accounts, just as Twitter and other
Leftist sites are doing. They are trying to take complete control of all search
engines and the internet, and they have almost succeeded; right now, even
Wordpress is deleting conservative blogs and banning their posts, and Google is
already hiding or outright deleting archived conservative material from the
internet, which in essence is being scrubbed of conservative supporting
historical fact; and, propaganda and out right falsehoods are inserted as
replacements.
Taking control of the internet is the greatest danger, and
the fact it is taking place before our eyes represents the best reason for Congress to splitGoogle, Facebook and Amazon into smaller organizations under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, in
order that competition gives the free flow of information a fighting chance.
Otherwise, our internet will be controlled by big corporations pushing whatever
agenda they wish upon the American public. And at some point, whatever they
build may be seen as too important to remain in their hands and become the tool
of a malicious government intent on using those propaganda programs to control
us all.
However unfortunate, America cannot count on Congress to fix
the problem at this moment in time, while Democrats control the House. They're
on the side of the censors. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler,
D-N.Y., is railing that social media companies are not doing enough to
"counter" what he calls "vitriolic hate messages,"
aligning himself with the same tyranny we see all across Europe play out today
through their hate speech illegitimate laws that allow for patriots opposed to
Islam and Christians preaching the Gospel to be jailed for their stated beliefs
and facts.
Instead, hopefully America will witness the courts step in
and right this egregious development in our society. Last fall, a conservative
nonprofit called Freedom Watch sued Facebook,
Google, Twitter and Apple for suppressing "politically conservative
content." It's plausible judges will rule that allowing social media
platforms to censor political speech destroys the freedom of the public square.
And that's just the tip of the ice-berg. Just wait until
facial recognition and a complete cashless society become reality and they use
social media information to determine who is or isn't in good standing with the
government. The very techniques FB is using now can be used by any tyranny
minded government to keep someone out of work until they toe the party line. We
see a similar program already unfolding in China through a social credit score
that determines EVERYTHING for the individual .... even whether one gets into a
university or not.
As a publicly traded stock, unless I missed the mark
somehow, they are supposed to honor the Constitution and respect our civil and
constitutional rights in the same manner all other companies with public
holdings must adhere to the Bill of Rights and respect the public they serve.
I recently had a dear friend make me aware of the new 'Tech
Bias Story Sharing Tool' that puts one on a White House type form, where a
person can share their story of abuse and censorship at the hands of any or all
the various tech giants. Anyone who has experience the OVERT and BLATANT and
Often ARBITRARY CENSORSHIP utilized by Facebook, Twitter, Google and now even
Wordpress should use this tool to contact the White
House and express Your own particular concerns.
Time will tell. The Senate and the House or the Courts
either act or 'We the People' eventually will. To tell the truth, I'm actually
surprised that nobody has attacked Facebook headquarters in Molina Park,
California in some fashion, even if something as simple as paint bombs.
BIG BROTHER'S HERE. We need to make sure we kill him in the
cradle so to speak, or we can kiss liberty in America Good-Bye. Too much of our
liberty has already been destroyed through illegitimate legislation. We don’t need
to allow anymore to be destroyed in THE PUBLIC SQUARE.
Well, I've rambled on too much already, but this is a touchy
subject for me. I never thought I'd see the day where any American wasn't
allowed to freely speak his or her mind in this country, under any set of
circumstances.
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
Source links and text enclosed by brackets are by the
Editor.
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in terms of the ongoing
transformation of America so let me catch you up.
Does anyone else see it as ironic that the squelching of
conservative speech has been placed into overdrive since Americans elected a
conservative president?
It’s as if the technocrats embedded in the deep state are
punishing us for refusing to elect their pre-ordained candidate.
The old Soviet Union, if you recall, also claimed to have
“free” elections. But the poorly kept secret was that only pre-approved
candidates were allowed on the ballot. It was the professional politicos in the
Soviet bureaucracy who hand-selected the “choices” that were then offered to
the proletariat, who on their own could not be trusted to vote the right way.
“Choices” had to be limited.
Similarly, a beast-like system has been created by modern
technocrats in America. A system where outsiders like Donald Trump have no
chance of winning because they don’t have the support of the “professionals” in
the bureaucracy.
I think it’s pretty clear that Trump snuck up on them in
2016, that they believed their own flawed polling, and underestimated just how
teed off the middle-class working people had become after decades of rule by
politicians on the right and left who did not understand their plight, and
didn’t care to learn.
They now are determined not to let it happen again. Ever. No
more Trump. No more Trumpian wannabes.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google-YouTube – which
benefit from government-supported monopolies – are all purging conservatives
from their platforms in time for the 2020 election. Even those not purged will
be more careful, tempering, watching what they say, so as not to lose their
voice all together.
Most major cities are also cracking down on dissenters. They
are implementing the United Nations’ New Urban Agenda and partnering with
progressive corporations in public-private partnerships. Anyone employed by one
of these cities, or one of their corporate “partners,” is not allowed to
express any unauthorized opinions on the government-backed social media sites.
If this sounds like “collusion,” that’s because it is.
Collusion to silence those on the right. Think Orwell’s “1984.” It has arrived
with little fanfare.
Specifically off limits are statements, comments or even
jokes that offend certain privileged groups, notably followers of Islam,
LGBTQs, or the Planned Parenthood abortion industry. If a person employed by
these politically correct cities or companies steps out of bounds, they face a
very real risk losing their job and possibly their career.
Teachers are routinely disciplined, even fired, for
referring to transgender students by the wrong pronoun. You can read about one
such case in Virginia here.
In Sterling Heights, Michigan, Republican Mayor Michael
Taylor sides
with the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslims over
a large community of Chaldean Christians who did not want a mega-mosque built
in the middle of their neighborhood. In terms of sheer numbers, there are more
Chaldeans in Sterling Heights than Muslims, but the Chaldeans are fractured and
split while the Muslim community speaks with a single voice and carries a big
stick. A big stick in terms of the ease with which CAIR threatens to use legal
action if it doesn’t get its way. CAIR speaks and the spineless politicians
listen. Taylor, for example, flip-flopped from opposing the mega-mosque to supporting
it. Taylor denies it, but his change of heart clearly came after CAIR’s
executive director pointed a dagger-like finger at him and declared him guilty
of “Islamophobia.”
That’s all it takes for the vast majority of politicians in
today’s America to make up their minds which side they want to be on whenever a
controversy involving Islam pops up.
Dawud Walid, CAIR-Michigan’s chapter boss, was able to get a
low-level mayoral appointee removed from her post last year in the city of
Warren, a suburb of Detroit. Diane Koslowski had committed the unpardonable sin
of criticizing Islam on her private Facebook page, where she posted “Islam is
hate.”
Though she publicly apologized and expressed deep remorse
for “offending” Muslims, it did her no good. She was still forced to resign in
disgrace from the city advisory board. You can read our report on last year’s
fiasco in Warren here.
·Now it has happened again this week in Dearborn, Michigan,
where the new Gestapo led by CAIR and Walid jumped into action against a man
who, like Kozlowski, violated the Islamic Sharia law against
blaspheming/slandering a Muslim.
Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly sided with CAIR and the Muslims
over his own city employee in a case that really amounted to some bad Facebook
humor. Bill Larion, a surveyor in the city’s engineering department, posted
that he thought Sports Illustrated’s inclusion of a burkini-clad Muslim woman
in its Swimsuit Edition would have better suited for the cover of “Camels ‘R
Us.”
·In fact, CAIR spends a lot of its time
calling on people to resign, simply because they expressed a politically
incorrect thought. It also happened last
week in St. Lawrence County, N.Y., where CAIR demanded a local
county lawmaker resign because she posted to Facebook a true statement about
the Muslim Brotherhood’s plan to “destroy us from within.”
In Dearborn, Mr. Larion’s comment was clearly in bad taste.
But did it warrant his immediate firing, even after issuing an apology to the
city’s Muslim community? Almost certainly not. Compare that drastic retribution
against a local city surveyor to the way Muslims in far more powerful positions
are treated when they slip up and make insensitive comments against Jews, such
as Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib have done.
Then you have the Muslim attorney general of Minnesota,
Keith Ellison, who has been accused by multiple former girlfriends of physical
abuse. They offered hard evidence, including text messages and medical reports.
Did Ellison suffer any consequences?
·And what about the school run by Muslim
American Society in Philadelphia, where middle-school children were taught
to chant songs about chopping off the heads of Jews. The MAS has 50 chapters.
As far as I know they all continue to operate under business as usual. No
consequences.
But a low level employee of Dearborn makes an off-color joke
on Facebook and he loses his job.
Dearborn Mayor O’Reilly, virtue signaling to his large and
growing Muslim community [about 40 percent of Dearborn is Muslim], said he had
“zero tolerance for the type of language used in the Facebook comment,”
the Detroit
News reports.
Zero tolerance for an off-the-cuff joke about burkinis. All
the tolerance in the world for children singing about beheading Jews and nary a
peep when a Muslim politician is accused of sexually assaulting women.
·Nor did I see any national media coverage of
the discovery this week of a jihadist training camp in rural Macon County,
Alabama. This camp is reportedly operated by the same terrorist, Sirraj Wahhaj,
who was caught training kids at a similar camp last year to attack schools in
New Mexico.
BREAKING: FBI uncovers radical Islamic compound in
Alabama training children for jihad, linked to New Mexico pic.twitter.com/cvFcZF8AQf
—
Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) May
11, 2019
·Meanwhile, a Seattle-area school district has been urging its teachers to
“bless” Muslim studentseach day during the Islamic holiday of
Ramadan. They are being sued by the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund on
behalf of non-Muslim parents who are not happy about the special treatment of
Muslims in their children’s schools. Since when do Christian children ever
receive a special “blessing” from public schools during Christmas or Good
Friday?
Yes, it’s been a news-filled week on the cultural jihad
front. Not that you would know it from watching or reading mainstream corporate
media outlets.
These are all the signs of a conquered nation. When a nation
bends over backwards to exaggerate and condemn the sins of its own people while
covering up or downplaying the sins of its enemies, that nation is already
conquered in its collective psyche. The mind-control spin doctors have everyone
living in a matrix of ignorant bliss.
Leo Hohmann is a freelance
writer and journalist, author of the 2017 book “Stealth
Invasion: Muslim Conquest through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad.” [or buy
via Amazon] He is working on a follow-up
that will investigate the Interfaith movement and how it is ushering false and
antichrist ideas into Western churches. If you would like to support his
research and writing projects, please consider a donation of any size.
If you are a Conservative-oriented person active in posting
and reading on various Social Media platforms, you are probably quite aware the
current Social Media giants do more than lean Left. Those giants also have an
agenda to promote all things and ideology Left. You probably have also realized
part and parcel of that agenda is to PREVENT YOU -- a Conservative -- from
being successful on their Social Media platforms. INDEED, this means censorship
and/or banning.
On a personal level I have experienced Social Media Jail on
Facebook and Google+. (Neither you nor I
will need to worry about Google+ censorship/jail by early April because Google
is shutting down the non-commercial usage of G+.)
I operate three blogs. More lately my flagship blog SlantRight2.0 seems
to be on the Facebook radar. Quite suspiciously Facebook has flagged SlantRight 2.0 shared posts as being against
the platform’s community standards. This is interesting since I don’t engage in
vulgarity, profanity and incitement to violence.
My subject matter promotes Conservative thought, is
pro-Christian, Pro-Israel, Pro-Christian Zionist and to a Multiculturalist’s
chagrin – I do not shy away from exposing the dark side of Islam both from that
theopolitical faith’s own revered writings and current events. In full
disclosure I am supportive of Biblical Morality which among other things places
me in the present day politically incorrect side of criticizing all things
same-sex. This kind of criticism has earned a special epithet from the Left
known as homophobia. I am labelled a homophobe even though I condemn violence
in any form against those practicing the various forms of homosexually. God
Almighty will judge LGBTQ practitioner choices and not any human being and
certainly not I. For that matter, there are probably many actions a
Conservative should ask forgiveness to escape an end of the age Final Judgment
including myself. (One of the awesome aspects of God’s Grace in Christ Jesus is
Mercy for all humanity have fallen short due to sin. Mini path to personal
Redemption:
God’s Righteousness Through Faith
21 But
now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being
witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even
the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all [a]and on all who believe.
For there is no difference; 23 for all
have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being
justified [b]freely by His grace through
the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God
set forth as a [c]propitiation by His blood,
through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God
had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to
demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and
the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. [Romans 3: 21-26 NKJV])
Thank God there are Social Media platforms beginning to
emerge as a result of the big-dog platforms skewing Left. And yet I’m not
exactly an Internet guru and I have found my learning curve for using emerging
platforms not always equal to usability. Hence as yet, I have a sense dissatisfaction
of the more emerging Conservative-friendly platforms which may be more my
problem with adapting to different formats. As the big-dog Social Media becomes
more and more hostile toward Conservatives, I suspect I’ll have to make a
greater effort to adapt.
I won’t mention the new Social Media I had an utter failure
in using, but there are three that adaptability seems easier. GAB is a bit of an
alternative to Twitter. You can post with 300 characters at GAB. But GAB has had
server issues recently when a mass murderer was discovered to have used GAB,
the server company used by GAB gave them the boot. GAB is up and running again
with a new server.
MeWe
seems to be taking off currently. MeWe is kind of a combo G+ and Facebook. So
far though I have not figured out how to link to individual posts in a MeWe
Group. Again, the problem might be my skill set more than a MeWe issue. Here is
my MeWe Profile Page.
A Social Media platform I find extremely promising is USALife. USA Life is
modeled so much like Facebook, it may be the future Conservative alternative.
Go to my USA Life Profile
Page and become my friend.
I’ve noticed when I complain of Facebook censorship on the
newer platforms, I’m beginning to get responses asking me why don’t I just
abandon Facebook? One reason is I’m an old dog that doesn’t like to learn new
tricks. Until censorship became a problem at Facebook, it seemed the most
effective way to share my blog posts. I am thinking USA Life might actually
become competitive to Facebook’s future. Until then I’ll keep protesting
Facebook censorship as long as the Facebook despots allow me to share. I
suspect a day will come when Facebook despots will ban me for good.
Along the lines of censorship and banning, I was conversing
with a Counterjihad author (due to the potential
of censorship I hesitate to share the name). We spoke of our mutual censorship
experiences on Facebook. He provided some insight on Conservative usage on
Facebook.
He senses that above Facebook algorithms digitally hunting
down Conservatives, he believes there are people among your friend lists who
lean Left or are downright Liberal trolls who make it their objective to report
your Conservative content as offensive. Whether or not it is actually offensive
matters little. There is no recourse to rebut a false report with Facebook.
The suggestion is to go through your friend list and delete
suspicion looking friends. Check out their views from their posts. If you
determine a friend leans Left, that person can be suspected of reporting your Conservative
content. Delete them.
Below are some posts exposing Social Media Platforms with a
Left-Wing anti-Conservative agenda and their methods.
JRH 2/28/19 Your generosity is always appreciated:
Earlier today, Tommy Robinson was banned from Facebook and
Instagram. YouTube won't be far behind. YouTube is removing more and more
content based on false flags. Videos that contain absolutely no hate speech are
being removed as hate speech, and creators that haven't violated any rules or
guidelines are receiving strikes and having their privileges (e.g.
livestreaming) revoked. YouTube's Community Guidelines strike system is pure
garbage. YouTube is also punishing content creators for comments left on their
videos. Perhaps the YouTube Creator Academy can address these problems.
A Facebook insider has confirmed the social-media
giant discriminates against conservatives through software
manipulation, using “special features” to “deboost” their traffic, especially
near elections.
Project Veritas has obtained and
published documents and presentation materials from a former Facebook insider.
This information describes how Facebook engineers plan and go about policing
political speech. Screenshots from a Facebook workstation show the specific
technical actions taken against political figures, as well as "[e]xisting
strategies" taken to combat political speech.
She was a content review analyst for the intellectual
property department, dealing with copyright and trademark claims.
As part of her work, she noticed some odd things on various
accounts.
For example, one of the company’s engineers, Danny Ben
David, had created an item called “actiondeboostlivedistribution” and was
attaching it to accounts belonging to conservatives.
The insider said the obvious intent was to prevent
distribution of that particular page or video.
It was one of the “methods of suppression,” she said.
It was done by disabling routine features on the
page such as notifications.
“I would see it on several different conservatives pages,”
she said, noting pages for Mike Cernovich, Steven Crowder and the Daily Caller.
She also pointed out Facebook was doing the throttling and
even taking down material without letting the user know.
The insider noted company CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s claim
to Congress, “We want to make sure we have the widest possible expression.”
He said he didn’t want his company acting on the political ideology
of content.
But the former Facebook employee said that’s
exactly what is not happening.
Project Veritas tried to obtain comment from David, who
refused.
Another Facebook employee behind the campaign was Seiji
Yamamoto, who wrote internally about his “news feed reduction strategy.”
He was concerned about “hate speech” but said there’s “quite
a bit of content near the perimeter of hate speech that we need to address as
well.”
Yamamoto described it as speech that “offends.”
Facebook, the report explained, also targets right-leaning
individuals and organizations by labeling terms they use as offensive. One
example was “MSM,” for mainstream media.
Yamamoto also refused to comment to Project Veritas.
The strategy includes “drastically limited bandwidth,” auto
logouts for users and posts that “fail to upload.”
“They believe the election of Donald Trump was a fluke, it
shouldn’t have happened,” the insider said, so Facebook is now trying to
“influence elections.”
The company internally even discussed ratting out people it
considers offensive by notifying everyone in their friends network.
“Fear of being outed … is what regulates behavior in real
life and we should reintroduce that to the online world,” the company’s
internal discussion noted.
Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe said that to expose
dishonesty and censorship in big tech companies, he will be relying upon more
insiders, informants and leakers in the future.
“Our future depends on those who are willing to give up
everything for what they believe.”
“When approached for comment, author and filmmaker Mike
Cernovich said the troubling issue is that Facebook could just ‘make stuff up’
about people through these systems. ‘Facebook, or an individual at Facebook,
has the unilateral power to create false allegations against someone he or she
doesn’t like. The person accused not only can’t do anything about the
allegation, they don’t even have an idea the allegation was made,’ said
Cernovich,” Project Veritas said.
++++++++++++++
Facebook bans Tommy Robinson,
falsely claiming he calls for violence against Muslims
A Muslim activist in the UK is claiming credit for this:
I
can reveal I recently had a meeting with Facebook to discuss #TommyRobinson
pages and their impact in brainwashing his supporters to become terrorist and
use violence against Muslims. A very good result and I am proud of my
role.
However, Tommy Robinson says: “…the reasons they’ve given
are just complete lies. They’re saying I incited violence and that I openly
called for violence against Muslims, that’s just a lie. If that was the case
then they could show evidence of messages where I’d said that but I never
have.”
Whatever you may think of Tommy Robinson, fascists such as
Mohammed Shafiq are not going to stop with him. It will soon be impossible to
voice any opposition to jihad mass murder or Sharia oppression of women, gays,
and others on any social media platform. Then the jihad will be able to advance
unopposed and unimpeded, which is the ultimate goal of all these efforts to
silence critics of jihad terror.
“Tommy Robinson Banned from Facebook, Instagram,” by Oliver
JJ Lane, Breitbart, February 26, 2019:
Facebook has banned British citizen
journalist and street organiser Tommy Robinson from its platforms, including
Instagram, in a move that comes days after he released a new documentary
exposing what he claimed to be dishonest practise at establishment media giant
BBC.
The social media giant claimed in a
statement published Tuesday that Tommy Robinson’s own Facebook page, which had
around one million ‘likes’ before deletion, “has repeatedly broken [Facebook
community] standards, posting material that uses dehumanizing language and
calls for violence targeted at Muslims. He has also behaved in ways that
violate our policies around organized hate.”
Facebook claimed the move “is not a
decision we take lightly.”
Responding to the ban, English
Defence League founder turned citizen journalist Tommy Robinson told Breitbart
London: “…the reasons they’ve given are just complete lies. They’re saying I
incited violence and that I openly called for violence against Muslims, that’s
just a lie. If that was the case then they could show evidence of messages
where I’d said that but I never have.
“This is continued censorship which
we all knew was coming but its been done instantly because of my documentary
which exposed the establishment working with Hope not Hate, working with the
BBC in order to destroy my name to the nation. When I exposed what they were
doing they’ve put down the pressure to completely delete me from the internet.
This has to show people the levels they’re gonna go to silence any opposition
to mass migration and the Islamisation of this nation.”
Robinson’s removal from the
platform is only the latest in a series of bans targeting the campaigner in
recent years. He wasde-platformed by
Twitter in May 2018, banned
from receiving payments by Paypal in November of that year, and had
Youtube videos blocked from
earning revenue in January 2019.
Mr Robinson told Breitbart London
that he would be working on his own mobile app for live streaming after
his removal from several social media sites.
Robinson’s film debuted at a
protest he held in Manchester, England, outside the offices of the BBC where
the Panorama documentary series is produced. Thousands are
reported to have attended the heavily-policed event.
In the film, top BBC documentary
maker John Sweeney can be seen being confronted by Robinson with undercover
footage of him making apparently racist and classist
statements. It is believed at least some of the claims and counterclaims
between Mr Robinson, the BBC, and HOPE Not Hate may yet be contested in court.
Responding to the ban, Tommy
Robinson ally and UKIP leader Gerard Batten said the rise of censorship showed
the nation was headed towards a “dark place.” He said: “Without any explanation
whatsoever, the personal Facebook accounts of key UKIP members and Tommy
Robinson have been removed….
"The God who made the world and
everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples
built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed
anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything
else." ~Acts 17:24-25
_____________________
FACEBOOK INSIDER GOES PUBLIC: 'SUPPRESSION' FOR
CONSERVATIVES
Facebook bans Tommy Robinson, falsely claiming he calls
for violence against Muslims
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If you blog, read blogs, spend time on social media and/or
share what you read on social media; then you are probably aware Google is
shutting down its social media program Google-Plus (G+} in April. If you didn’t
know – SURPRISE, it’s happening.
The reason I think I read is Google believes there is a lack of traffic. Another
possible reason I heard is G+ had a hack breach and Google
doesn’t want to deal with the issue. Since I tend to lean toward conspiracy
reasoning, I have a suspicion most G+ users are of a Conservative nature and
Google does more than lean Left, Google almost falls on its face leftward
because it leans so far Left. At any rate, I received this announcement from
Blogger (owned by Google) about G+
social sharing:
Following
the announcement of Google+ API deprecation scheduled for March 2019, a number
of changes will be made to Blogger’s Google+ integration on 4 February
2019.
Google+ widgets: Support for the “+1 Button”, “Google+ Followers”
and “Google+ Badge” widgets in Layout will no longer be available. All
instances of these widgets will be removed from your blog.
+1 buttons: The +1/G+ buttons and Google+ share links below blog
posts and in the navigation bar will be removed.
Please note that if you have a custom template that includes Google+ features,
you may need to update your template. Please contact your template supplier for
advice.
Google+ Comments: Support for Google+ comments will be turned down,
and all blogs using Google+ comments will be reverted back to using Blogger
comments. Unfortunately, comments posted as Google+ comments cannot be migrated
to Blogger and will no longer appear on your blog.
Those buttons have disappeared on Blogger usage on SlantRight
2.0. I found this annoying because my “Like Button” disappeared
as well, meaning the Facebook social media are prevented from liking posts. I’m
going to try and figure on placing a “Like Button” back on the blog, but I’m
not really tech-savvy so it might take awhile to figure that out.
Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones is facing a ban from all
quadrants of Social Media, Prager U is being censored by Facebook and Youtube,
and more. These appear to be the main culprits that hate Conservative ideology
so much that they direct wholesale bans, shadow bans and temporary jail which is
essentially a suspension of service for a period of time:
ØFacebook
ØGoogle
ØTwitter
ØYoutube (Google owned)
I myself have experienced the jail-privilege from Facebook
and Google (specifically from G+) several times. As of this writing, G+
is preventing even a “request” to “join” any G+ Community. As a test I even
withdrew from a couple of low-traffic Communities, then I tried to put in a
couple of “ask to join” requests. Each time a little banner-box pops up telling
me there was an error and try again later.
I’ve been trying later for weeks now and the error message
still pops up.
Here is a list of Conservatives censored one way or the
other from 3/4/18 Gateway
Pundit:
Young Cons: Extremely
popular conservative news site and received millions of daily readers during
the election. The website received nearly all of its traffic from
Facebook. Since 2016 Facebook shut down stories to Young Cons. Each
algorithm change meant less traffic for the popular website. YoungCons
was blacklisted by Facebook and struggles to maintain readers.
The site regularly switches
domains to save traffic.
SarahPalin.com: With over4
million fans one of the popular conservative pages on Facebook
until Facebook blocked all traffic to the website. The page was forced to
change the domain to save traffic numbers.
Right Wing News: Right
Wing News grew to an enormous website in the past few years thanks its
popularity on Facebook. In July of 2015, in just a week, the Right Wing News
Facebook page reached133 million
people. Because conservatives were sharing content they were interested
in, Right Wing News (with 3.6 million Facebook
likes) was driving the same amount of web traffic as some of the
biggest newspapers in America. Since the 2016 election Facebook blocked
traffic to the website. Owner John Hawkins announced he
was shutting down the website in January.
Western Journalism: Newsweek reported that
the site has grown from receiving 1,000 page views a day in 2009[3] to more
than 1 million during 2016. The website was averaging around 6 million page
views a day according to Quantcast during the election. Today it is down to
around 500,000 a day. Western Journalism was blacklisted by Facebook.
The Gateway Pundit: TGP
was ranked as the 4th
most influential conservative news source during the 2016
election. The site in 2016 received nearly a third of its traffic from
Facebook. This past weekend Facebook
blocked all traffic from recent stories to the website. TGP
advertised with Facebook and is another top conservative website blacklisted by
the company. TGP is also shadow-banned by Google and frequently attacked and
smeared by the liberal media.
President Trump Facebook
page: A recent algorithm change has caused President Donald
Trump’s engagement on Facebook posts toplummet
a whopping 45%. In contrast, Senators Elizabeth Warren
(D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) do not appear to have suffered a comparable
decline in Facebook engagement, reported Breitbart’s
Alum Bokhari.
Independent Journal
Review: A massive conservative website based on Facebook
audience. The Independent Journal Review (IJR) terminated a number
of its employees on Thursday, leaving an unclear future for the
millennial-focused conservative website that has recently faced a declining
audience. IDF was also shadow-banned and blacklisted.
Breitbart.com: Breitbart
was the most influential conservative news source in 2016 with a massive
audience. Since the election Breitbart is constantly targeted and smeared
by far left operations. Breitbart advertising was targeted by Sleeping
Giants and other Soros sites.
InfoWars: Infowars
is another dominant conservative site with enormous traffic. After
several years of video production and tens of thousands of video YouTube gave
Infowarsits
third strike this week and threatens to shut the YouTube
Channel down.
Rightside Broadcasting: This
YouTube Channel had millions of views before the election. Since 2016
YouTube has shadow-banned all of their videos. YouTube has classified its
videos of President Trump at a rally as hate speech. YouTube has demonetized
hundreds of its videos. YouTube hides its videos.
Income for the site is down 95% since the election.
Natural News: A very prominent
health website and the world’s top source on natural health. The site receives
tens of thousands of readers every day. YouTubewiped
out over 1,700 videos covering everything from nutrition,
natural medicine, history, science and current events.
From a reader: You Tube deleted
Natural News Channel. It’s conservative and full of info on health, too. I took
a screen shot. I’m very upset. My husband has aggressive cancer from. Agent
Orange and I depended on this channel for his diet among other things. The man,
Mike Adams, is literally a genius, and I mean literally, and he is very
conservative.
Prager Report: PragerU,
a conservative educational site, issuing
Google and its subsidiary YouTube, accusing the video site of
censoring its online videos because of their political leanings. YouTube
has banned several of its videos including segments on abortion and
Islam. Prager U has a massive conservative audience in the
millions.
Pamela Geller.com: Pamela is
well-known for speaking out against radical Islam. ISIS has threatened to
behead her several times. During the election PG had over 100,000 daily
views from Facebook. Today Facebook has shut down most of her
traffic. Her website suffered serious losses in revenue since the
election.
Diamond and Silk: Pro-Trump
YouTube sensations have a suit against YouTube. The Trump supporters
announced in August 2017 that 95% of their videos have been
demonetized on YouTube.
This list is derived from March 2018. Indeed, I just receive
an email Alert from ACT
for America that Youtube has pulled videos. The ACT
email states according to Youtube rules, this video removal counts as a strike.
The email doesn’t specify how many strikes have been placed on ACT for
America, but the rules state three-strikes and the Youtube Channel is
removed.
The most recent video related to reporting on the Islamic
cult compound being busted for child abuse and training kids to be school
shooters among other things. Youtube called the video report HATE SPEECH.
ACT for America began a petition to protest the
Youtube action. Other than validation for ACT choices, I am unsure how
much effect such a petition will have.
What needs to happen is to have Conservative and
Counterjihad writers and organizations ban [maybe “ban” is the wrong word
for this instance – maybe “group”] together, perhaps with
some kind of joint-petition with the goal of influencing legislation.
Below is the ACT email Alert about unjust Youtube
censorship.
Big tech companies are using their power and influence to
censor the conservative voice. ACT for America has experienced this first hand
over the last few weeks.
First, YouTube removed an ACT for America video that dated
all the way back to 2012 - in the process of removing the video, YouTube
applied a "strike" to our account. If an account receives three
strikes in a 90-day period, the account is expelled from YouTube. This is
problematic because YouTube is the ONLY major platform to share videos from and
if ACT for America were to lose our YouTube channel - we would be at a serious
disadvantage to other organizations.
Fortunately, Twitter did not find my post to violate their
hate speech policies - you can take a look at my post below:
Screenshot Brigitte Gabriel
report on depraved Muslim Terrorist
That's the reality we live in right now with big tech
companies. Kathy Griffin can pose with a decapitated head of our President and
receive no punishment, but if I call a terrorist sick and depraved I get suspended
for hate speech. These Orwellian "hate speech" policies are being
implemented with the explicit purpose to silence conservative voices.
Click below to sign our petition demanding big tech
companies to stop censoring conservatives!
This is about protecting our First Amendment right to
express ourselves freely. I hope you will stand with me in this fight!
For Freedom,
Brigitte Gabriel
Founder & Chairman
ACT for America
++++++++++++++++++
[Blog Editor: Here is a video of Natural News Editor
fuming over Youtube & Facebook censorship. The roughly 44-minute post uses
the REAL.VIDEO platform no doubt to avoid Youtube censors. The thing is I’m not
sure if the embed code will work on my blogs (especially Wordpress). If that
occurs click the embedded link within the title.]
ACT
for AmericaEducation, Inc. is a
registered 501 c (3) organization.
ACT for America is the nation's largest national security grassroots
organization with over 1 million members dedicated to keeping America safe and
it's citizens secure from all threats foreign & domestic. Click
here to support our efforts.
Brigitte Gabriel is one of
the leading terrorism experts in the world providing information and
analysis on the rise of global Islamic terrorism. She lectures nationally and
internationally about terrorism and current affairs. Her expertise is sought
after by world and business leaders.
She has addressed the United
Nations, Australian Prime Minister, members of The British Parliament/House of
Commons, members of the United States Congress, The Pentagon, The Joint Forces
Staff College, The US Special Operations Command, The US Asymmetric Warfare
group, the FBI, and many others.
In addition, Gabriel is a
regular guest analyst on Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, and various radio
stations daily across America.
Ms. Gabriel is Founder and
Chairman of ACT for America, the largest national security grassroots
organization in the U.S. with One million members dedicated to preserving
national security and promoting Western values. She is a NYT best-selling
author of three books the latest is “RISE” In Defense of Judeo Christian Values
and Freedom.
Ms. Gabriel was knighted in
Europe in 2016 by the Knights of Malta, for her international work on fighting
terrorism and standing up for Western Judeo-Christian Values. She joins a long
list of knights including former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush,
Nelson Mandela, Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, and
others.
Ms. Gabriel is named one of
the top 50 most prominent speakers in America. She speaks Arabic, French,
English, and Hebrew.
