Posted on 12/26/2015 4:48:44 AM PST by HomerBohn
Facebook has sensationally banned a story about a 'refugee' raping a Swedish woman in line with the company's new policy to censor anti-migrant posts deemed to be "xenophobic".
The Infowars story, which explained how a north African migrant who participated in the gang rape of a woman in Stockholm got off without charge, was posted on Facebook yesterday but disappeared from the website within hours.
A query of the URL on Facebook's 'Debugger' website reveals that, "this link is blocked." Any attempt to post the link on Facebook results in failure
Apparently, Facebook feels it is more important to control the narrative on the migrant crisis than to defend rape victims.
The company's policy was leaked during a conversation between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier this year which was caught on a hot mic. Zuckerberg promised Merkel that he was working on censoring anti-migrant posts.
It subsequently emerged that the German government and Facebook were working with ex-Stasi agent Anetta Kahane to identify "xenophobic" posts made on the social networking website and punish people who make them with fines and jail sentences.
As we highlighted back in January, Facebook's new censorship policy also allows users to flag content which "annoys" them or which they deem to be offensive. This allows large mobs of agenda-driven social justice warriors to mass flag posts for deletion.
The new policy was justified by Facebook's need to eliminate "fake news," but the same excuse doesn't apply in this case. The story about the refugee gang rape of the Swedish woman was featured in numerous different mainstream news outlets, including The Local and FriaTider.
Facebook has previously censored political content on numerous occasions. Back in May, the winner of the Muhammad art contest in Garland, Texas that was attacked by gun-wielding jihadists was banned by Facebook, before his account was restored after vociferous complaints.
The Alex Jones Facebook account was also temporarily suspended over an image of an ISIS militant that couldn't even be considered offensive by any stretch of the imagination.
As the Gatestone Institute highlights, Facebook is censoring a rape epidemic in Germany that has led citizens to obtain firearms and pepper spray in their droves.
German police are also deliberately censoring information about migrants committing rapes and other crimes so as not to "legitimize" critics of mass immigration.
I was on Facebook for a month, caught up with a few relatives and that was it. I saw people putting pictures of their young children and grandchildren on it and thought, is this wise in the world of today?
It always was. People willingly put personal information up and the government collects it. It’s just lately they’ve been more vocal about it, and very obvious.
I’m convinced you can show people all the evidence in the world, and they will either not believe it or accuse us of trying to incite hatred. Truth matters not to the masses.
As long as they can watch their reality shows, sports, favourite sitcom, they won’t care.
This problem is far greater than any amount of voting will fix
We need to learn,we have our own media. Let’s stop depending on the drivebys to be fair and balanced.its not going to happen.we don’t need facebook,the Wapost,msnbc cnn or any of the rest. We have or own media lets use it.
The difference is, they are useless liberal idiots and I/ we are not. I would not presume to extend their stupidity by trying to regulate private enterprises that I personally disagree with.
Two wrongs <> right.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts make a right.
I’m always unpleasantly surprised that thinking adults still use the intellectually pornographic vehicle called facebook. How stupid can people be?
“Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts make a right.”
There’s a joke about dead people voting hidden in there somewhere. :-)
My God ... the world is in big trouble. One of the saddest videos I’ve ever seen. But thanks for posting.
I love the little games they post. Like “what is your hooker name? Use your month and day of your birthday to see your hooker name.”. Then I’m sure the program collects your birthdays from the answers.
I warn my friends all the time to stay away from those data collection “ games.”
The obvious solution is to create an alternative to Facebook that is actually *more* censorious, of leftism, fanaticism, perversion, Islamism, and all manner of the grotesque, indecent, and evil.
The best way of doing this is “round robin” vetting. When a message is posted, it is first sent to one or more other posters who are online, for their approve/disapprove review. If any of them disapprove, the message is then forwarded to an employee for review.
Pattern review is automatically made, so that if a reviewer rejects too many good messages or approves too many objectionable messages, they no longer get to vet what others write.
Messages can also be objected to by anyone who reads them, under the same rules. Eventually you end up with a system that blocks extremists, jerks, slackers and trolls.
Finally you use what such forums usually use, a keyword search, to catch messages that slipped through the cracks, for additional review.
Long live the West!
We have a right to exist.
No. Alex Jones is and has been correct about many things. Jim Robinson doesn’t like him because Alex doesn’t think two planes could take done seven buildings. Try posting a story from Infowars and see what happens.
In all likelihood, the government knows all about us anyways, but why make it even easier I say.
I also don’t like supporting rabid anti freedom jerks and abortion lovers.
Are you suggesting the JR doesn’t believe in FR being a 1st amendment-friendly site where someone can post baloney so that others can poke holes in it?
ping and bttt
America needs a true Conservative channel.
I got trapped on “Facebook” several years ago for a few
months; then finally saw a way off that timesucker.
I use the regular post office and phone for any communication.
A friend’s daughter-in-law would get on Facebook and post
photos of all her new purchases and redecorating projects,
then post all their big vacation plans, where they were
going, when they were leaving & when they would return.
Then one day when they came home from a trip; they’d been
cleaned out of all their fancy possessions.
No. Remember the 1st Amendment is applied to the Government. This is a property rights issue. It is Jim’s website and he can write the rules. One of his rules is no Alex Jones. Usually the Admin Mods will pick up on a Paul Joseph Watson story, since they know Paul works for Alex, but you go by this time. The URL validater will absolutely turn you in if you try to post a link to Infowars.com or PrisonPlanet.com/tv.
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