Posted on 07/24/2017 11:34:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
“Hate speech is not free speech,” the Left increasingly insists – particularly on college and university campuses. In my new book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies), I show why the very concept of hate speech is a scam. Here are the top seven:
1. Twitter decides who has the right to “hate speech”
Consider, for example, what Twitter does not consider to be “hate speech.” A Muslim named Obaid Karki, @stsheetrock on Twitter, runs a website headed “Obaid Karki St.Sheetrock’s Painfulpolitics Offensive Comedy Hepcat” and another called “Suicide Bombers Magazine.” He posted this on one of them in late May 2016, just before the European Union and the social media sites announced their new agreement: “Robert Spencer mustn’t [be] featured but lynched…”
Karki’s posted this call for me to be lynched on Twitter. But Twitter refused to delete his account or even remove the threatening tweets.
2. Social Media blocks the truth by deeming it “hate speech”
Videogame developer Mark Kern was suspended from Twitter for writing, “I don’t see why mosques with radical leanings should be excluded from surveillance when the rest of us get our emails collected by the NSA.” The administrator of a pro–Donald Trump Facebook group was banned for arguing that Trump was not anti-Muslim but anti-ISIS.
In early February 2017, they came for me.
On February 7, 2017, referrals to my website, Jihad Watch, from Facebook numbered 23,783, and from Twitter, 1,718. These numbers were generally representative: referrals from Facebook for several years up to that point had averaged between 15,000 and 20,000 a day, and 1,500 to 2,000 a day from Twitter. But on February 10, 2017, those numbers dropped suddenly and precipitously, with only 2,923 referrals from Facebook and 295 from Twitter. That’s around where they have held since then: on March 20, 2017, there were 1,954 referrals from Facebook and 241 from Twitter.
Did thousands of people who used to click through to Jihad Watch articles from Facebook and Twitter suddenly lose interest on February 10, 2017? Of course not. What happened on that day was that Facebook and Twitter began to censor Jihad Watch as “hate speech,” in accordance with the assurances they had given to the European Union.
Blocking the Truth
Facebook, immediately after concluding an agreement with the European Union, began moving aggressively against foes of jihad terror and mass Muslim migration in the West. Nina Rosenwald, the president and founder of the conservative think tank Gatestone Institute, on June 2, 2016 recorded Facebook’s haste to implement the new speech regulations: “On Tuesday, the European Union (EU) announced a new online speech code to be enforced by four major tech companies, including Facebook and YouTube. On Wednesday, Facebook deleted the account of Ingrid Carlqvist, Gatestone’s Swedish expert.”
Carlqvist’s crime, according to Rosenwald, was to take note of real crimes by Muslim migrants: “Ingrid had posted our latest video to her Facebook feed—called ‘Sweden’s Migrant Rape Epidemic.” In that video, said Rosenwald, “Ingrid calmly lays out the facts and statistics, all of which are meticulously researched.” Rosenwald added that the video was adapted from a “research paper that Gatestone published last year. The video has gone viral—racking up more than 80,000 views in its first two days. But the EU is quite candid: it is applying a political lens to their censorship.... ”
Facebook banning anti-jihad opinions
Facebook banned the page of a gay magazine, Gaystream, after it published an article by David Berger, its editor-in-chief, criticizing German gay activists and leftists for ignoring the Islamic root causes of the Orlando jihad massacre. Berger wrote, “Whoever had thought the culmination of masochism and Islam-appeasement by left-green professional homosexuals was already achieved, will now be mistaken: it becomes even more masochistic and perverse.”
5. Deleting jihad awareness
In July 2016, YouTube also invoked “hate speech” criteria, which supposedly it had developed as a tool to use against jihad recruiting videos, to delete a video critical of non-violent Muslim Brotherhood efforts to advance Sharia in the West.
6. The immunity of the censorship of certain social media groups explain a lot
On July 13, 2016, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, on behalf of Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), of which I am vice president, challenging Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which grants Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube immunity from lawsuits, and thus makes it impossible to challenge their consistent bias against foes of jihad terror and tolerance of jihad terror activity.
Section 230 of the CDA explicitly immunizes Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube from challenges to anything they do to “restrict access to or availability of material that” that they deem “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.”
David Yerushalmi, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel, added, “Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have notoriously censored speech that they deem critical of Islam, thereby effectively enforcing blasphemy laws here in the United States with the assistance of the federal government. It has been the top agenda item of Islamic supremacists to impose such standards on the West.... Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are falling in line, and we seek to stop this assault on our First Amendment freedoms.”
I would like to think a privately owned company could make their own rules as to what is allowed. Unfortunately it seems only to apply to the left.
I get it. Anything that is even remotely Conservative is deemed hatespeech.
I understand this man’s frustration, but FB & Twitter aren’t the ONLY way to get your message out there. These venues are ‘free’ so you get what you pay for. I can’t see HOW you can have an argument about your ‘free speech’ when the service is FREE. Find a pay-for-post Conservative Venue or, better yet, design your OWN and make your OWN rules.
*SHRUG*
However, not all users understand that ‘free’ use of FB & Twitter means that YOU are actually the ‘product’ being ‘sold.’
Funny how FB seems to know that I love Kohl’s and Overstock and Zulilly and Zappos, Dog Charities, Coffee, Gardening, Steve Martin, Tom Selleck and anything in the color pink. ;)
It ain’t Rocket Science!
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Bet they didn't run a piece on the Obamas like that.
Now do a search for a People Magazine cover on that arrogant pos former occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave occupant. I guarantee you it would make you want to hurl
I, am American veteran, will speak on whatever, whenever, whoever, and however, anywhere in America, and there is nothing any corporation can do to stop me, short of assassinating me.
Facebook & Twitter are publicly traded corporations, and as such, they should be able to make the rules as they see fit. If the shareholders of the companies get upset with the censorship of conservative ideas, there will be less censorship. But until then, you can either choose to put up with it, or not participate.
However, if a college or university takes a penny of taxpayer money, then the rights of free speech and freedom of association guaranteed by the Bill of Rights should be the rule of law. That’s where lawyers need to get busy, and the worst offenders need to lose students.
Mark
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